#culture

I'm fairly out of the loop when it comes to pop culture. ↗

— Cynthia Nixon

#culture #fairly #i #loop #out

In a school where everyone is famous or rich or whatever, you have a culture, 'What does your dad do?' 'What does your mom do?' ↗

— Cynthia Nixon

#dad #does #everyone #famous #mom

I feel that Christian music is a subculture directed towards the Christians. It's not really being exposed to non-Christians and it's not really created for non-Christians, so non-Christians almost never hear any of this music. ↗

— Larry Norman

#any #being #christian #christian music #christians

I think pot should be legalized, but I think the promotion of party culture is irresponsible. ↗

— Krist Novoselic

#i #i think #irresponsible #legalized #party

In Scotland over many years we have cultivated through our justice system what I hope can be described as a 'culture of compassion.' On the other hand, there still exists in many parts of the U.S., if not nationally, an attitude towards the concept of justice which can only be described as a 'culture of vengeance.' ↗

— Keith O'Brien

#compassion #concept #cultivated #culture #described

We live in a culture of reductionism. Or better, we are living in the aftermath of a culture of reductionism, and I believe we have reduced the complexity and diversity of the Scriptures to systematic theologies that insist on ideological conformity, even when such conformity flattens the diversity of the Scriptural witness. We have reduced our conception of gospel to four simple steps that short-circuit biblical narratives and notions of the kingdom of God on earth as it is in heaven in favor of a simplified means of entrance to heaven. Our preaching is often wed to our materialistic, consumerist cultural assumptions, and sermons are subsequently reduced to delivering messages that reinforce the worst of what American culture produces: self-centered end users who believe that God is a resource that helps an individual secure what amounts to an anemic and culturally bound understanding of the 'abundant life. ↗

— Tim Keel

#christendom #culture #leadership

..Pamanku yang berjiwa lapang dan merupakan umat Nabi Muhammad yang amat pemurah, menyediakan kopi miskin dalam menu warungnya. Sesekali, secara diam-diam, pamanku menyuruh kami menambahkan gula untuk kopi miskin, karena ia tak sampai hati pada kaum yang papa itu. Namun aneh, pembeli melarat yang telah terbiasa dengan kopi miskin malah tak menyukai hal itu. Pelajaran moral nomor dua puluh dua: kemiskinan susah diberantas karena pelakunya senang menjadi miskin. ↗

— Andrea Hirata

#indonesia #life-lesson #wealth #life

In our postmodern culture which is TV dominated, image sensitive, and morally vacuous, personality is everything and character is increasingly irrelevant. ↗

— David F. Wells

#culture #media #morality #personality #postmodernism

I'm an immigrant kid who came to America from India when I was very young and grew up in New York City with a single mom and really was influenced by all of those immigrant cultures bumping up against each other. ↗

— Padma Lakshmi

#america #came #city #cultures #each

A culture without property, or in which creators can't get paid, is anarchy, not freedom. ↗

— Lawrence Lessig

#creators #culture #freedom #get #paid