Quotes of: Cultural-war Keyword

[C]ulture, for all its importance, is not some miasma that seeps into people through their skin. Culture relies on neural circuitry that accomplishes the feat we call learning. Those circuits do not make us indiscriminate mimics but have to work in s...

Stephen Pinker

People have come to me over the years and said to me: 'I admire the culture of Starbucks. Can you come give a speech and help us turn our culture around?' I wish it were that easy. Turning a culture around is very difficult to do because it's based o...

Howard Schultz

Fame is fun, money is useful, celebrity can be exciting, but finally life is about optimal well-being and how we achieve that in dominator culture, in a greedy culture, in a culture that uses so much of the world’s resources. How do men and women, ...

bell hooks

Ken: This morning, and this afternoon, we are doing what I want to do. Got it? Ray: Of course. Which, I presume, will involve culture. Ken: We shall strike a balance between culture and fun. Ray: Somehow I believe, Ken, that the balance shall tip in ...

In Bruges

I argue that even as the war is framed in certain ways to control and heighten affect in relation to the differential grievability of lives, so war has come to frame ways of thinking multiculturalism and debates on sexual freedom, issues largely cons...

Frames of War: When Is Life Grievable?

You may think you know someone very well. But there'll always be parts you can't see. Sometimes she'll look weak, but she is hiding her strength. Sometimes she'll seem strong... and yet she's so fragile on the inside.

Library Wars: Love & War, Vol. 8

Some printed pages are medical plasters to extract pain, others are tourists' tickets out of boredom or loneliness to exhilarating adventures, still others are diplomas for promotion and drilling ideas into a quick-step.

When Books Went to War: The Stories that Helped Us Win World War II

Can you ever "solve" disease, unemployment, war, or any other societal herpes? Hell no. All you can hope for is to make them manageable enough to allow people to get on with their lives. That's not cynicism, that's maturity.

World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War

I keep thinking about the march I joined today. It's bigger and stronger than war. That's why it will win. The people must be the ones to win, not the war, because war has nothing to do with humanity. War is something inhuman.

Zlata's Diary: A Child's Life in Wartime Sarajevo

Language itself is a major resource in the naming of what cannot be named

9/11: The Culture of Commemoration

religion is no longer the opium of the people but the vitamin pills of the feeble.

Media Manifestos: On the Technological Transmission of Cultural Forms

Cats have gnosis to a degree that is granted to few bishops.

The Tiger in the House: A Cultural History of the Cat

Redemption is as comprehensive as creation or fall.

Total Truth: Liberating Christianity from its Cultural Captivity

If you never fail, that means you never tried to do something impossible.

Polly: Sex Culture Revolutionary

The crisis of community has its source in the corruption of character.

The Unsettling of America: Culture and Agriculture

My working hypothesis is that stupidity in popular culture is a constant. Popular culture cannot get more stupid.

P. J. O'Rourke

There is a Canadian culture that is in some ways unique to Canada, but I don't think Canadian culture coincides neatly with borders.

Stephen Harper

What moves me is neither ethnocentric pride nor sectarian arrogance. I make no claim that Jewish culture is superior to other cultures. But it is mine.

Theodore Bikel

I can answer anything about any American pop culture song ever.

Mark McGrath

Unless the relationship of law to Christianity is re-established, there is no future except destruction for Western culture.

R. J. Rushdooney

The things that I draw on, and the world that I feel part of, aren't particularly youth culture.

Robert Wyatt