La barbarie n est le contraire de la culture que dans le cadre de la hierarchie de pensee que celle-ci nous propose.

The secret to making yourself stronger is to absorb the strength of the people around you—energy begets energy.

There’s plenty of emphasis on success in our culture, but we have to help people focus on significance as well.

Cultural analysis is intrinsically incomplete. And, worse than that, the more deeply it goes the less complete it is.

It's the only way anything will change. Because we are both mother and child, cause and effect, villain and victim

The uniqueness of every soul is not a theme that our current culture, obsessed with group identities, cares to assert.

Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible. -Frank Zappa, composer, musician, film director (1940-1993)

What editors are obliged to appear to say that men want from women is actually what their advertisers want from women.

Literature, art, science, and religion degenerate when polemical struggle supplants the independent creation of ideas.

The overriding reason why we should take other people's cultures seriously is because God has taken ours seriously.

More than any other product of human scientific culture scientific knowledge is the collective property of all mankind.

These days people call entertainment capturing someone at their lowest moment and then posting it for the world to see.

A cultural fixation on female thinness is not an obsession about female beauty but an obsession about female obedience.

That's what you did when someone was having a hard time. You fed them. It was a tradition that crossed all cultures.

The most powerful force ever known on this planet is human cooperation — a force for construction and destruction.