#culture

In my book I don't just demonstrate that free enterprise is the most efficient way of organizing an economy - which it is. I also show that it's an expression of American values, and, thus, that a fight for free enterprise is very much a fight for our culture. ↗

— Arthur C. Brooks

#american #american values #book #culture #demonstrate

Two thousand years ago, we lived in a world of Gods and Goddesses. Today, we live in a world solely of Gods. Women in most cultures have been stripped of their spiritual power. ↗

— Dan Brown

#been #cultures #goddesses #gods #live

Sexual, racial, gender violence and other forms of discrimination and violence in a culture cannot be eliminated without changing culture. ↗

— Charlotte Bunch

#changing #culture #discrimination #eliminated #forms

This is our culture, and I don't care who the musician is, if he avoids black people, then he is scared of something. He doesn't have confidence in himself or else he doesn't believe in what he's doing. ↗

— Betty Carter

#believe #black #care #confidence #culture

Race wasn't an issue. My family was French, but Yorkville was a melting pot of races and cultures. ↗

— Bob Cousy

#family #french #issue #melting #melting pot

What is so incredible and essential about an authentic cultural scene is it rejects a value system based on consumption and productivity and instead celebrates creation, critical thought, aesthetics and expression. That can’t be mass marketed. ↗

— Claire Vaye Watkins

#culture #art

I think everyone is very surprised at how 'Matrix' has become the pop culture phenomenon that it is. ↗

— Laurence Fishburne

#culture #everyone #how #i #i think

More than 15 percent of the jobs in Ohio are tied in some way to agriculture. A strong agriculture means a strong economy. ↗

— John Fisher

#economy #jobs #means #more #ohio

When a marriage culture fails, sexual desire no longer unites; instead it fragments. ↗

— Maggie Gallagher

#desire #fails #fragments #instead #longer

Of course as children, we all, in all cultures and societies, learn behavior from observation, imitation, and encouragement of various kinds. So by the suggestion made, we all 'pretend' most of the time. ↗

— Gary Gygax

#children #course #cultures #encouragement #imitation