Quotes About Culture

The diversity touted by the university system reaches only as far as skin color or country of origin. The spectrum of ideas extends only from the left to the far left.

When asked which statement about ethics their professors most often voiced, 73 percent picked: "what is right and wrong depends on differences in individual values and cultural diversity." Only 25 percent of the students selected the option reading: "there are clear and uniform standards of right and wrong by which everyone should be judged.

These three elements—America's philosophy of reason, equality, liberty, and limited government; America's culture of individual rights and social duties; and America's shared history—define our country.

Moral Relativism is a widespread disease.

Conservatives have allowed liberals to win the culture war because we're generally civil people. When the left says we're uncivil, we tend to shy away from the fight rather than, as Andrew put it, walking toward the fire.

Bullies: How the Left's Culture of Fear and Intimidation Silences Americans.

The light in which the city is cast by writers, poets and artists helps determine the kind of cities we get.

In examining the history of cities, I looked for material in markets, souks and bazaars; in swimming pools, stadiums and parks; in street-food stalls, coffee houses and cafés; in shops, malls and department stores. I interrogated paintings, novels, films and songs as much as official records in search of the lived experience of cities and the intensity of their daily life.

It is a memorable and counterintuitive fact that the invention of the city came long before the invention of the wheel.

Cities create entirely new taboos and restrictions even as they liberate.

We live in a Jesus haunted culture that is Biblically illiterate, and so unfortunately at this point in time, almost anything can pass for knowledge of the historical Jesus from notions that he was a a Cynic sage to ideas that he was a Gnostic guru to fantasies that he didn't exist, to Dan Browne's Jesus of hysterical (rather than historical) fiction.

The best hijab is in the eyes of the beholder.

Si dice che l'uomo sia un animale socievole. Stando così le cose, mi pare che un francese sia più uomo di un altro, è l'uomo per eccellenza, poichè sembra fatto unicamente per vivere in società." - Montesquieu, Lettre Persanes

Of all the Christbitten places in the two hemispheres, [Los Angeles] is the last curly kink in the pig's tail.

A nation of spaghetti eaters cannot restore Roman civilization!

INTRODUCTION The very acute and lively Spanish critic who signs himself Clarin, and is known personally as Don Leopoldo Alas, says the present Spanish novel has no yesterday, but only a day-before-yesterday.

Don Baldomero hadn't been able to disengage himself from that very Spanish concept, to wit: parents must work so that their children may rest and enjoy themselves.

Subsistirán las corridas de toros mientras exista en el alma española propensión a la alegría. El día que no haya toros los españoles tendrán que inventarlos

Travel teaches toleration.

Great countries are those that produce great people.

the Jewish high priests but to the custodians of any monotheistic faith, popes included, to maintain the purity of belief and of people in the face of challenges from materialistic and pagan cultures.

Historians are fairly certain that Buonarroti spent much time in the Jewish parts of Rome, using the authentic features of real Jews for his images. We can see the proof of that here. Except

Le lingue straniere ringiovaniscono i pensieri.

The East is a career.