#culture

Moreover, behind this vague tendency to treat religion as a side issue in modern life, there exists a strong body of opinion that is actively hostile to Christianity and that regards the destruction of positive religion as absolutely necessary to the advance of modern culture. ↗

— Christopher Dawson

#actively #advance #behind #body #christianity

I feel like being into the beat of your own drum has become too prominent in the culture. ↗

— Mos Def

#become #being #culture #drum #feel

All of youth culture is packaged and sold back to us at this furious rate these days. I think it's part and parcel to this corporate encroachment on our lives in general. ↗

— Ani DiFranco

#corporate #culture #days #furious #general

People from different cultures have different definitions for beauty. Isn't that sad to judge others with our standards... rather than appreciate them? ↗

— Mizuki Nomura

#beauty #comedy #cultural-differences #culture #definition

With the introduction of agriculture mankind entered upon a long period of meanness, misery, and madness, from which they are only now being freed by the beneficent operation of the machine. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

#being #beneficent #entered #freed #introduction

The things that inform student culture are created and controlled by the unseen culture, the sociological aspects of our climbing culture, our 'me' generation, our yuppie culture, our SUVs, or, you know, shopping culture, our war culture. ↗

— Gus Van Sant

#climbing #controlled #created #culture #generation

When I grew up in the '60s, we were actually dominated by this, you know, sort of conforming '50s culture, even though we were like trying to express our own culture, like, the dominant culture was the thing that was forming us. And I think that that's true today. ↗

— Gus Van Sant

#conforming #culture #dominant #dominated #even

I am convinced that the stratigraphic method will in the future enable archaeology to throw far more light on the history of American culture than it has done in the past. ↗

— Edward Sapir

#american #american culture #archaeology #convinced #culture

I want to be able to work on a project that will give people around the world the chance to represent their own people, their own culture, their own stories, rather than just Hollywood - really, you know, dominated Hollywood. And that's a dream of mine. ↗

— Steven Seagal

#around #chance #culture #dominated #dream

Indian food has been huge in the UK forever and ever, but that's because it has a historical rooting. America, I think is really ripe for it. There's been so much interest in Indian culture. ↗

— Aarti Sequeira

#because #been #culture #ever #food