#cultural

The stories from Iran's present and past are reminders that freedom, democracy and human rights, or fundamentalism, fascism and terrorism are not geographically and culturally determined, but universal. ↗

— Azar Nafisi

#democracy #determined #fascism #freedom #fundamentalism

The South is a great driving destination for tourism - heritage, cultural and many other types of tourism. ↗

— Sonny Perdue

#destination #driving #great #heritage #many

I think there's an awful lot of noise about the Church being persecuted but there is a more real issue that the conventional churches face - that the people who are really driving their revival and success believe in an old-time religion which, in my view, is incompatible with a modern, multi-ethnic, multicultural society. ↗

— Trevor Phillips

#awful #being #believe #church #churches

When somebody goes outside the cultural norms, the culture has to protect itself. ↗

— Robert M. Pirsig

#culture #goes #itself #norms #outside

The correlation between poverty and obesity can be traced to agricultural policies and subsidies. ↗

— Michael Pollan

#between #correlation #obesity #policies #poverty

One of the problems that we have as American journalists is that we bring the American cultural baggage with us and we plop it down and it follows us around and that's just a fact of life. ↗

— John Pomfret

#around #baggage #bring #cultural #down

I am very interested in what has been called bad taste. I believe the fear of displaying a soi-disant bad taste stops us from venturing into special cultural zones. ↗

— Manuel Puig

#bad #bad taste #been #believe #called

As the poet has expected, the alarms now are sounded, for - and it must be said again - the birth of a poet is always a threat to the existing cultural order, because he attempts to break through the circle of literary castes to reach the center. ↗

— Salvatore Quasimodo

#always #attempts #because #birth #break

When I see the cultural diversity that exists today, I feel that we must defend it, and we need Europe, because otherwise we are going to live in a society with a single model, the Anglo-American model. ↗

— Jean-Pierre Raffarin

#cultural #cultural diversity #defend #diversity #europe

We can practice tolerance while still holding true to cultural values that protect the institution of marriage as a union between only a man and a woman. ↗

— Ken Calvert

#cultural #holding #institution #man #marriage