#cultural

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

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

India Conquered and dominated China culturally for 20 centuries without ever having to send a single soldier across her border. ↗

— Hu Shih

#border #centuries #china #conquered #culturally

What is sacred among one people may be ridiculous in another; and what is despised or rejected by one cultural group, may in a different environment become the cornerstone for a great edifice of strange grandeur and beauty. ↗

— Hu Shih

#another #beauty #become #cornerstone #cultural

It is only through contact and comparison that the relative value or worthlessness of the various cultural elements can be clearly and critically seen and understood. ↗

— Hu Shih

#comparison #contact #critically #cultural #elements

I like Mitch Daniels on the fiscal conservative issues. You disagree with him on this idea that social issues, you takeoff the table. I do that for two reasons. I think the fiscal issues in a sense are a symptom of a lot of the deeper cultural issues in America. I don't think they are as disconnected as he thinks. ↗

— Mark Steyn

#conservative #cultural #cultural issues #daniels #deeper

I certainly can't speak for all cultures or all societies, but it's clear that in America, poetry serves a very marginal purpose. It's not part of the cultural mainstream. ↗

— Mark Strand

#certainly #clear #cultural #cultures #i

Sermons remain one of the last forms of public discourse where it is culturally forbidden to talk back. ↗

— Harvey Cox

#culturally #discourse #forbidden #forms #last

Reality is shaped by the forces that destroy it. ↗

— D. Harlan Wilson

#fantasy #horror #humor #literary #postmodern