#culture

Imagine: If shifting from one universe to another is like moving up or down to parallel layers, overlapping with one universe, then going to another timeline is like taking a jump to the left.' 'Or a step to the right,' Jena said wryly. ↗

— E.C. Myers

#pop-culture #imagination

I grew up in a culture in which it was a sin for a woman to speak out. ↗

— Terry Tempest Williams

#grew #i #out #sin #speak

Those who speak of our culture as dead or dying have a quarrel with life, and I think they cannot understand its terms, but must endlessly repeat the projection of their own desires. ↗

— Muriel Rukeyser

#culture #dead #desires #dying #endlessly

Religion is one dimension of culture, a transcendent element of it. ↗

— Francis Arinze

#dimension #element #religion #transcendent

Reality TV is sleazy, it is manipulative. It is as momentary as anything in popular culture. ↗

— Morley Safer

#culture #manipulative #momentary #popular #popular culture

In its broad sense, civilization means not only comfort in daily necessities but also the refining of knowledge and the cultivation of virtue so as to elevate human life to a higher plane. ↗

— Yukichi Fukuzawa

#civilization #culture #humanity #inspirational #inspirational

There's nothing in Chinese culture that is an equivalent of the geisha. It's so different, so special to Japan. ↗

— Ziyi Zhang

#chinese culture #culture #different #equivalent #geisha

This call for a new culture is not a new idea. ↗

— John Hutton

#culture #idea #new #new idea

There is a tendency around the world today to copy TV culture. And that is not always a virtue. ↗

— Francis Arinze

#around #copy #culture #tendency #today

Of the many forms of false culture, a premature converse with abstractions is perhaps the most likely to prove fatal to the growth of a masculine vigour of intellect. ↗

— George Boole

#culture #false #fatal #forms #growth