#cult

A primary function of art and thought is to liberate the individual from the tyranny of his culture in the environmental sense and to permit him to stand beyond it in an autonomy of perception and judgment. ↗

— Beverly Sills

#autonomy #beyond #culture #environmental #function

I saw and I met a lot of people who were in the field. It also provided a context in which I came to respect what the actor did, because I saw how difficult it actually was to do. ↗

— Ron Silver

#actually #also #because #came #context

I didn't want to get married - I thought it was like a cult! It seemed so conservative and unnatural. ↗

— Alicia Silverstone

#cult #get #get married #i #like

The deepest problems of modern life derive from the claim of the individual to preserve the autonomy and individuality of his existence in the face of overwhelming social forces, of historical heritage, of external culture, and of the technique of life. ↗

— Georg Simmel

#claim #culture #deepest #derive #existence

Modern culture is constantly growing more objective. Its tissues grow more and more out of impersonal energies, and absorb less and less the subjective entirety of the individual. ↗

— Georg Simmel

#constantly #culture #energies #entirety #grow

We all read news stories about the difficulties and tensions that the United States has with our allies and even with coalition partners in Iraq, but we rarely read about the good news. ↗

— Michael K. Simpson

#allies #coalition #difficulties #even #good

I never wanted to be a film director but after this experience I really loved it. I would love to do more documentaries but it's difficult to find backing for them. ↗

— Marc Singer

#backing #difficult #director #documentaries #experience

At the descriptive level, certainly, you would expect different cultures to develop different sorts of ethics and obviously they have; that doesn't mean that you can't think of overarching ethical principles you would want people to follow in all kinds of places. ↗

— Peter Singer

#cultures #descriptive #develop #different #different cultures

I don't have to put on a front. If I had to, it would be difficult and tiring. ↗

— Tarsem Singh

#front #had #i #put #tiring

I have often wished I had time to cultivate modesty... but I am too busy thinking about myself. ↗

— Edith Sitwell

#am #busy #cultivate #had #i