Quotes of: Cultural-war Keyword

I took up writing to escape the drudgery of that every day cubicle kind of war.

Walter Mosley

You can't say civilization don't advance... in every war they kill you in a new way.

Will Rogers

War is cruelty. There is no use trying to reform it. The crueler it is, the sooner it will be over.

William Tecumseh Sherman

Environment is what you make it and destiny is how you react to your environment: whether you try to overcome it or just resign yourself to it.

Culture and History

Identity is the history that has gone into bone and blood and reshaped the flesh. Identity is not what we were but what we have become what we are at this moment.

Culture and History

Shouldn't we rather recognize that each person is a sort of unconscious anthology of all epochs of man; and that he may at times be moving simultaneously among different epochs?

Culture and History

Modernism', as a label, has currency in the arts, architecture, planning, landscape, politics, theology, cultural history and elsewhere.

City as Landscape

And so we went. And so it went. And, slowly, I began to learn: speaking in the same language does not equal communication, especially when there is a cultural divide.

Cheers, Beers, and Eastern Promise

If you already have a person's love no sacrifice can be too much to give for it; but any sacrifice is too great to buy it for you.

Culture and Value

Christianity is not a doctrine, not, I mean, a theory about what has happened & will happen to the human soul, but a description of something that actually takes place in human life.

Culture and Value

Perhaps what is inexpressible (what I find mysterious and am not able to express) is the background against which whatever I could express has its meaning.

Culture and Value

Nothing is more necessary to the culture of the higher sciences, or of the more elevated departments of science, than meditation; and nothing is less suited to meditation than the structure of democratic society.

Democracy in America

He tried to read, but the words swam in front of his eyes in meaningless waves. He put on the television. Nick at Nite, the cultural equivalent of aerosol cheese.

Deal Breaker

A language is something infinitely greater than grammar and philology. It is the poetic testament of the genius of a race and a culture, and the living embodiment of the thoughts and fancies that have moulded them

The Discovery of India

There were millions of Earth men and women who bought the Earth cultures big lies, and they died just as unhappy as you are now. And I suggest to you that it's a foolish thing.

Demon

In politics, the tripod is he most unstable of all structures. It's be bad enough without the complication of a feudal trade culture which turns its back on most science.

Dune

The epitome of culture is the search for truth, or at least a reasonable approximation of reality, most notably the need to know ourselves and the world around us.

Epic of Evolution: Seven Ages of the Cosmos

If what we learn is no more than what we expect to learn, then we have learned nothing at all.

The Engines of Our Ingenuity: An Engineer Looks at Technology and Culture

Death is universal. The rituals associated with it, however, vary substantially—and are greatly influenced by their religious and cultural context.

Ecology and Experience: Reflections from a Human Ecological Perspective

Why is this the "new feminism" and not what it looks like: the old objectification?

Female Chauvinist Pigs: Women and the Rise of Raunch Culture

Only the free and personal man is a good citizen (realist), and even with the lack of particular (scholarly, artistic, etc)culture, a tasteful judge (humanist).

The False Principle of Our Education