Quotes of: Modern-culture Keyword

I was partly old-fashioned and partly modern.

Eric Allin Cornell

But we moderns are impatient and destructive.

John Crowe Ransom

I don't understand what modern clothes are about at all.

Julie Harris

Many novels and modern publications are corrupters of morals or distorters of truth.

Ezra Taft Benson

The basic assumption of the secular society is that modernity overcomes religion.

Ulrich Beck

However, the word madda in modern Hebrew specifically means science.

Norman Lamm

The success that the Tolkien books had redefined modern fantasy.

George R. R. Martin

I, Kusama, am the modern Alice in Wonderland.

Yayoi Kusama

The definition of a modern approach to war is the acknowledgement of individual lives lost.

Maya Lin

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