#culture

I'm involved in so many different things, and there are so many profound reactions to what I do because I am big counter culture. ↗

— Laura Schlessinger

#because #big #counter #culture #different

The family is the single most important institution in Afghan culture. It is described in the country's constitution as the 'fundamental pillar of society'. ↗

— Asne Seierstad

#constitution #country #culture #described #family

Having had that experience... I think, what modern culture wants to see is the relationship with the woman. I don't think you can tell a story on film nowadays where the woman simply is there for the man when he decides to settle down. ↗

— Tom Selleck

#decides #down #experience #film #had

I definitely believe in a God and in a higher power, and I definitely take from many different religious cultures. I go to church. ↗

— Jane Seymour

#church #cultures #definitely #different #go

The Jesuits had learned that a Christian mission to China could never succeed if it were not in a position to show and convince the Chinese intelligentsia of the superiority of the European culture. ↗

— Hu Shih

#chinese #christian #convince #could #culture

Moral values, and a culture and a religion, maintaining these values are far better than laws and regulations. ↗

— Swami Sivananda

#culture #far #laws #maintaining #moral

I think the advent of the Internet gave us all a big boost, because by the time the Internet became mainstream and you could get it in your home, a lot of us were used to dealing in fan culture, writing to magazines or anything at the back of comic books. ↗

— Kevin Smith

#anything #back #became #because #big

The danger of restorative nostalgia lies in its belief that the mutilated 'wholeness' of the body politic can be repaired. But the reflective nostalgic understands deep down that loss is irrecoverable: Time wounds all wholes. To exist in Time is to suffer through an endless exile, a successive severing from those precious few moments of feeling at home in the world. In pop terms, Morrissey is the supreme poet of reflective nostalgia. ↗

— Simon Reynolds

#morrissey #music #nostalgia #past #pop

The culture is just so coarse that you have to take it to that level and people will be like, 'Whoa!' And then you can make people think about stuff. It's kind of like shock therapy. ↗

— Matt Stone

#coarse #culture #just #kind #level

When Mrs. Bush was First Lady, she went all over the Mideast talking about breast cancer awareness and the need for early screening. She did this in places where the cultures prohibit such discussion or even detection efforts. ↗

— Greta Van Susteren

#awareness #breast cancer #bush #cancer #cultures