Quotes About Culture

Fawn M. Brodie, whose classic life of Smith earned her excommunication from the Mormon Church, saw the Book of Mormon as 'one of the earliest examples of frontier fiction, the first long Yankee narrative that owes nothing to English literary fashions'.105 There was quite a genre of 'lost race' novels at the time. A century on, J. R. R. Tolkien's Lord of the Rings saga formed an English Catholic parallel, conscious or unconscious, to Smith's work.

Why are sex and violence always linked? I'm afraid they'll blur together in people's minds - sexandviolence - until we can't tell them apart. I expect to hear a newscaster say, "The mob became unruly and the police were forced to resort to sex."

As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it.

There's so much comedy on television. Does that cause comedy in the streets?

I think I have many spenglerian moods about the country, and that some day people will look back and think 'this was a really goofy, unadmirable stupid time.

I don't set trends. I just find out what they are and exploit them.

It was like in Samoa when they'd put up a movie screen on the beach and show movies and the locals would run behind the sheet to see where the people went. It was pretty grim.

La fuite vers la grande ville, vers la capitale, pour vivre son homosexualité est un parcours fort classique et fort commun pour un jeune gay.

Comme il n'y avait pas de couverts, il a mangé avec ses doigts, mais en utilisant sa main gauche, ce qui est très grave, et constitue une offense délibérée dans l'Atlas, où la main gauche est considérée comme impure, m'a expliqué Valérie tandis que l'habitant nous jetait hors de sa maison. Étrange Aziz. Provocateur, irréligieux, inculte, ignorant de ses propres traditions ? Non. Il me tend des perches.

My dad's Irish music was such a huge influence.

God does not exercise an alien domination of the world but a liberating lordship that sets creation free; God's rule lets family, culture, government, and church fulfill their created purposes, both distinct from and related to one another, and without any usurped heteronomy of one over the other.

Ratio became a working hypothesis, a heuristic principle, and thus led to the incomparable rise of technology. This was something fundamentally new in world history. From the Egyptian pyramids to the Greek temples, from the medieval cathedrals up to the eighteenth century, technology was a matter of handicraft. It served religion, royalty, culture, and people's daily needs.

It is becoming clearer every day that the most urgent problem besetting our Church is this: How can we live the Christian life in the modern world?

Every attempt to save the West that excludes one of the Western peoples [Völker] is condemned to failure.[46]

The only thing I am really clear about in the whole problem is that a 'culture' that breaks down in the face of danger is no culture.

The issue can no longer be evaded. It is becoming clearer every day that the most urgent problem besetting our Church is this: How can we live the Christian life in the modern world?

The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world that it leaves to its children.

Though Urdu is the mother tongue of only 5 percent of Pakistanis, it is the official language of the state and is taught in schools nationwide.

Believers may come from different cultures, countries, or customs, but we serve one God who unites us all.

To be sure, there were attempts at translating the philosophy that was written in Greek into other languages – the presumed intention being to implant it in the cultures of the target languages – but such attempts, in the end, did not produce the intended results.

The life of West, Nietzsche said, is based on Christianity. The values of the West are based on Christianity. Some of these values seem to have taken a life of their own, and this gives us the illusion that we can get rid of Christianity and keep the values. This, Nietzsche says, is an illusion...Remove the Christian foundation, and the values must go too.

There is a written and an unwritten law. The one by which we regulate our constitutions in our cities is the written law; that which arises from custom is the unwritten law.

Superstition has been defined as the use of a form whose significance has been forgotten.

Some say these people were Phoenicians, but that is incorrect; they were older than the Phoenicians being Atlanteans,