#cult

No culture on earth is as heavily narcotized as the industrial West in terms of being inured to the consequences of maladaptive behavior. We pursue a business-as-usual attitude in a surreal atmosphere of mounting crises and irreconcilable contradictions. ↗

— Terence McKenna

#culture #attitude

I don't see us as a big media gimmick band. We don't have a cultivated appearance or anything like Kiss. ↗

— Tom Verlaine

#appearance #band #big #cultivated #gimmick

It's difficult working with very rich actors, because inevitably they become a little spoilt, and the managers and agents tend to control things more than is healthy. ↗

— Mike Figgis

#because #become #control #difficult #healthy

I'm a little like Marco Polo, going around and mixing cultures. ↗

— Gianni Versace

#cultures #going #i #like #little

Some men have a necessity to be mean, as if they were exercising a faculty which they had to partially neglect since early childhood. ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

#early #early childhood #exercising #faculty #had

The whole drive of western culture, the part of it which is serious, is towards an extreme objectification. It's carried to the point where the human subject is treated almost as if it's dirt in the works of a watch. ↗

— Henry Flynt

#carried #culture #dirt #drive #extreme

Culture clash is terrific drama. ↗

— Ken Follett

#culture #drama #terrific

I would point out that the cultural advance of these people has been suppressed in the past and continues to be suppressed in the present by policies designed to keep them in ignorance. ↗

— Hideki Tojo

#been #continues #cultural #designed #i

Our young people are assets to be cultivated and nurtured; let's begin treating them that way. ↗

— Jane Fonda

#begin #cultivated #nurtured #our #people

And I really do think that the difficulty of research makes it more real to you than punching a thing to find out how many men were killed at this particular action. ↗

— Shelby Foote

#difficulty #find #how #i #killed