Quotes of: Modern-culture Keyword

By focusing exclusively on the events of the day, journalism all but severs the connection between time and eternity. It makes the world appear to be nothing but an endless jumble of events through which it is difficult, if not impossible, to discern...

Way of the (Modern) World

The modern hero is a person who does something everyone thinks they could do if they were a little stronger, a little faster, a little smarter, or a little more generous. Heroes in ancient times were the link between men and perfect beings, gods. Her...

John Edwards

Reading Virginia Woolf will change your life, may even save it. If you want to make sense of modern life, the works of Virginia Woolf remain essential reading. More than fifty years since her death, accounts of her life still set the pace for modern ...

The Cambridge Introduction to Virginia Woolf

The moments of silence are gone. We run from them into the rush of unimportant things, so filled is the quiet with the painful whispers of all that goes unspoken. Busy-ness is our drug of choice, numbing our minds just enough to keep us from dwelling...

Seasons of Contemplation: A Book of Midnight Meditations

The best thing about modern living is anaesthesia.

Meg Ryan

. . . I realized with a growing and startling sense of clarity that the seminary was educating and training me for a world that no longer existed. Moreover, the posture of this particular brand of Christianity toward the surrounding culture was one o...

Intuitive Leadership: Embracing a Paradigm of Narrative, Metaphor, and Chaos

What we mean when we say that something is "cultural" is that it is roughly similar to what we find in other members of the particular group we are considering, and unlike what we would find in members of a contrast group. This is why it is confusing...

Religion Explained: The Evolutionary Origins of Religious Thought

Escapism sold books, to be sure, but not nearly as many as were sold by exposing America’s flaws and making the average American reader (and book club member) look closely at his or her most cherished social assumptions. Americans might not be eage...

Making the List: A Cultural History of the American Bestseller, 1900-1999

Dominator culture teaches all of us that the core of our identity is defined by the will to dominate and control others. We are taught that this will to dominate is more biologically hardwired in males than in females. In actuality, dominator culture...

bell hooks

Contentment can only be found in not envying others or comparing yourself to them but in being satisfied with what you have.

Chinese Proverbs and Popular Sayings: With Observations on Culture and Language

Even for the most excitable preacher, there was nothing sinful about a waffle.

The Embarrassment of Riches: An Interpretation of Dutch Culture in the Golden Age

We often cause ourselves suffering by wanting only to live in a world of valleys, a world without struggle and difficulty, a world that is flat, plain, consistent.

Belonging: A Culture of Place

New Orleans is unlike any city in America. Its cultural diversity is woven into the food, the music, the architecture - even the local superstitions. It's a sensory experience on all levels and there's a story lurking around every corner.

Ruta Sepetys

To remain vital, culture must be renewed in the minds of the members of every generation. Outsource memory, and culture withers.

The Shallows: What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains

If we are going to live with our deepest differences then we must learn about one another.

Matrix Model Management System: Guide to Cross Cultural Wisdom

Japan never considers time together as time wasted. Rather, it is time invested.

A Lateral View: Essays on Culture and Style in Contemporary Japan

I once loved a girl who almost loved me, but not as much as she loved John Cusack.

Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs: A Low Culture Manifesto

We are losing the ability to understand anything that's even vaguely complex.

Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs: A Low Culture Manifesto

... a hunger that is more than simply material connects the human who feeds the chickens to the chickens that feed the humans.

Poultry Science, Chicken Culture: A Partial Alphabet

A word to the wise an't nesisary its the stupid ones who need the edvise.

The Persistence of Empire: British Political Culture in the Age of the American Revolution

All ethics and morals are culturally relative. And Esme's reaction taught me that while cultural relativism is an easy concept to process intellectually, it is not, for many, an easy one to remember.

The People in the Trees