#cultural

It is often in the name of cultural integrity as well as social stability and national security that democratic reforms based on human rights are resisted by authoritarian governments. ↗

— Aung San Suu Kyi

#based #cultural #democratic #governments #human

I was heartened that people everywhere want certain basic freedoms, even if they live in a totally different cultural environment. ↗

— Aung San Suu Kyi

#certain #cultural #different #environment #even

We have a strong agricultural heritage in Kansas. ↗

— Jim Ryun

#heritage #kansas #strong

I don't often go to a place just to check out all the cultural sites of a city. ↗

— Joe Sacco

#city #cultural #go #i #just

This country, and the West Coast, especially, is bad at preserving any cultural legacy. ↗

— Esa-Pekka Salonen

#bad #coast #country #cultural #especially

The apparent pointlessness of fashion may be just what makes it so strong as a zeitgeist sensor. Even I, a designer, do not know why a certain proportion feels dated or why another one feels exciting at a given moment. I leave that to the cultural historians and theorists. ↗

— Jil Sander

#apparent #certain #cultural #dated #designer

Comparison of statements made at different periods frequently enable us to give maximal and minimal dates to the appearance of a cultural element or to assign the time limits to a movement of population. ↗

— Edward Sapir

#assign #comparison #cultural #dates #different

I presume that nobody will deny the positive aspects of the North American cultural world. These are well known to all. But these aspects do not make one forget the disastrous effects of the industrial and commercial process of 'cultural lamination' that the USA is perpetrating on the planet. ↗

— Jose Saramago

#aspects #commercial #cultural #deny #disastrous

The cultural expectation should be if there's infidelity, the marriage is more important than fidelity. ↗

— Dan Savage

#expectation #fidelity #important #infidelity #marriage

Starting and feeding into the cultural war is absolutely unequivocally wrong for us as a nation and bad for the conservative movement. ↗

— Tim Scott

#bad #conservative #conservative movement #cultural #cultural war