#culture

I didn't know anything about Opus Die except from pop culture, like Dan Brown novels, which I knew wasn't really knowing anything about Opus Die. ↗

— Wes Bentley

#anything #brown #culture #dan #die

Civilization is a youth with a molotov cocktail in his hand. Culture is the Soviet tank or L.A. cop that guns him down. ↗

— Edward Abbey

#cocktail #cop #culture #down #guns

The type of fig leaf which each culture employs to cover its social taboos offers a twofold description of its morality. It reveals that certain unacknowledged behavior exists and it suggests the form that such behavior takes. ↗

— Freda Adler

#certain #cover #culture #description #each

Santa is our culture's only mythic figure truly believed in by a large percentage of the population. It's a fact that most of the true believers are under eight years old, and that's a pity. ↗

— Chris Van Allsburg

#believed #believers #culture #eight #fact

When you look at Japanese traditional architecture, you have to look at Japanese culture and its relationship with nature. You can actually live in a harmonious, close contact with nature - this very unique to Japan. ↗

— Tadao Ando

#architecture #close #contact #culture #harmonious

I hope that America as a whole, and especially its architects, will become more seriously involved in producing a new architectural culture that would bring the nation to the apex - where it has stood before - and lead the world. ↗

— Tadao Ando

#apex #architects #architectural #become #before

Don't tire yourself more than need be, even at the price of founding a culture on the fatigue of your bones. ↗

— Antonin Artaud

#culture #even #fatigue #founding #more

Never tire yourself more than necessary, even if you have to found a culture on the fatigue of your bones. ↗

— Antonin Artaud

#culture #even #fatigue #found #more

Not so much in Canada, but certainly in the US, as I'm sure you know, money is all, and if they can get another 26 programs of the same thing even though it advances the culture or those actor's careers not at all it doesn't matter. ↗

— Rowan Atkinson

#advances #another #canada #careers #certainly

No people come into possession of a culture without having paid a heavy price for it. ↗

— James A. Baldwin

#culture #having #heavy #into #paid