Men build too many walls and not enough bridges.
Joseph Fort NewtonTags: inspirational love misattributed compassion men empathy hate hatred understanding sympathy intolerance tolerance culture separation racism bigotry bridges culture-wars cultures misattributed-to-isaac-newton walls
The Procrustean bed. . .suggests itself with dispiriting aptness as a metaphor for the Culture Wars, right down to the blandishments with which Procrustes must have lured his guests over the threshold. (I picture him as a handsome fellow with a large vocabulary and an oleaginous tongue, not unlike the chairmen of many English departments.) There's just one crucial difference. Sometimes Procrustes lopped off his victims, and sometimes he stretched them, but the Culture Wars always lop. I have never seen cultural politics enlarge a work of literature, only diminish it.
Anne FadimanTags: censorship political-correctness culture-wars procrustes
The Jews had a love-hate relationship with the Greek culture. They craved its civilization but resented its dominance. Josephus says they regarded Greeks as feckless, promiscuous, modernizing lightweights, yet many Jerusalemites were already living the fashionable lifestyle using Greek and Jewish names to show they could be both. Jewish conservatives disagreed; for them, the Greeks were simply idolaters.
Simon Sebag MontefioreTags: culture-wars cultural-differences red-state-mentality
What the fanatical Jewish conservatives regarded as heathen pollution, cosmopolitans saw as civilization. This was the start of a new pattern in Jerusalem: the more sacred she became, the more divided.
Simon Sebag MontefioreTags: culture-wars cultural-differences red-state-mentality
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