Quotes of: Cultural Keyword

The United States is primarily a guilt-based culture. The dominant method of social control in this country involves teaching people to feel guilt about not living up to personal expectations. Contrast this with shame-based cultures like Japan. As re...

Matt Novak

It is really one of the most serious faults which can be found with the whole conception of democracy, that its cultural function must move on the basis of the common denominator. Such a point of view indeed would make a mess of all of the values whi...

Mark Rothko

The leadership of engagement begins by reconnecting to the physicality and the people of a company, not simply its spreadsheet. It all begins in the workplace.

Change Your Space, Change Your Culture: How Engaging Workspaces Lead to Transformation and Growth

Cannabis is renowned as a powerful hallucinogen in large doses, and certainly capable of inducing profound ecstatic ecstatic states. Anyone who who doubts this has clearly not experienced its effects.

Entheogens and the Development of Culture: The Anthropology and Neurobiology of Ecstatic Experience

Overregulation stifles creativity. It smothers innovation. It gives dinosaurs a veto over the future. It wastes the extraordinary opportunity for a democratic creativity that digital technology enables.

Free Culture: The Nature and Future of Creativity

Technology means you can now do amazing things easily; but you couldn't easily do them legally.

Free Culture: The Nature and Future of Creativity

...if the Democrats suggested a plan to burn down the Capitol building, the Republicans would counter with a plan to do it over the course of three years.

Black & Tan: A Collection of Essays and Excursions on Slavery, Culture War, and Scripture in America

Measuring success in cultural diplomacy - the use of education, creative expression in any form, or people-to-people exchange to increase understanding across regions, cultures, or peoples - is challenging. How does one quantify changes in attitude, ...

Cynthia P. Schneider

In Scotland over many years we have cultivated through our justice system what I hope can be described as a 'culture of compassion.' On the other hand, there still exists in many parts of the U.S., if not nationally, an attitude towards the concept o...

Keith O'Brien

New Age values are conscious evolution, a non-sectarian society, a non-military culture, global sharing, healing the environment, sustainable economies, self-determination, social justice, economic empowerment of the poor, love, compassion in action,...

Deepak Chopra

Evolution explains our biological evolution, but human beings are very unique creatures. As the Dobzhansky said, all animals are unique; humans are the uniquest. And that uniqueness of being human, language, art, culture, our dependency on culture fo...

Donald Johanson

When people say that L.A. doesn't have a culture, I think it really does: a very old culture, and very specific. There's streets named after entertainers, and statues of entertainers, and it's great. Entertainment is still art, even if it makes billi...

Fred Armisen

We cannot grow when we are in shame, and we can't use shame to change ourselves or others.

I Thought It Was Just Me: Women Reclaiming Power and Courage in a Culture of Shame

Compassion is not a virtue -- it is a commitment. It's not something we have or don't have -- it's something we choose to practice.

I Thought It Was Just Me: Women Reclaiming Power and Courage in a Culture of Shame

I think the failure of The American church to affirm the goodness of civilizational life is our greatest failing today.

Joy for the World: How Christianity Lost Its Cultural Influence and Can Begin Rebuilding It

The soul takes nothing with her to the next world but her education and her culture. At the beginning of the journey to the next world, one's education and culture can either provide the greatest assistance, or else act as the greatest burden, to the...

The Republic of Plato

So age after age — will it be soon, O Lord? — Beneath the scalpel of nature and art, Our spirit screams, our flesh depletes itself, Giving birth to an organ for the sixth sense. ("The Sixth Sense")

The Silver Age of Russian Culture: An Anthology

The mirror's light sparks in the eyes, And horrified, my lids drawn tight, I step back to that realm of night Where not a single exit lies... (Untitled: "I pass away this life of mine...")

The Silver Age of Russian Culture: An Anthology

What kind of ministry is that, just talking to people?" Criticism directed at Francis Schaeffer's plan to open an obscure spot in the Swiss Alps to those who came with questions.

Total Truth: Liberating Christianity from its Cultural Captivity

Belief must be something different from a mixture of opinions about God and the world, and of precepts for one life or for two. Piety cannot be an instinct craving for a mess of metaphysical and ethical crumbs.

On Religion: Speeches to Its Cultured Despisers

Oral tradition is practised in most African cultures: ideals, family histories and legacies are handed down from one generation to the other physically or verbally. However, this system is flawed in the sense that a lot of African innovation, experie...

Through the Gates of Thought