The height of human achievement and glory, Muhammad.
Pringle KennedyTags: inspirational freedom history humanity society people human mankind direction atheist struggle christian freedom-of-speech glory culture achievement muslim writer jewish lessons kennedy amazing hindu structure height pringle
Is there wisdom in innocence? I think there is, but there is a cult now of drab men and women, for whom the world, and even life itself, is a kind of commodity. These critics, having eaten, now study their excrement to see what they consumed. On this they base certain conclusions. Their ignorance is uncompromising. Let us rather stand before the unknown, in very humble, quiet observance and wait while it reveals itself.
Phillip MannTags: wisdom prejudice criticism assumptions mystery culture the-unknown
Hindus and Westerners alike see in the meat-eating taboos of India a triumph of morals over appetite. This is a dangerous misrepresentation of cultural processes. Hindu vegetarianism was a victory not of spirit over matter but of reproductive over productive forces.
Marvin HarrisTags: vegetarianism morals meat culture hindu
What a culture we live in, we are swimming in an ocean of information, and drowning in ignorance.
Richard Paul EvansTags: ignorance information culture
When a stranger on the street makes a sexual comment, he is making a private assessment of me public. And though I’ve never been seriously worried that I would be attacked, it does make me feel unguarded, unprotected.
Regardless of his motive, the stranger on the street makes an assumption based on my physique: He presumes I might be receptive to his unpoetic, unsolicited comments. (Would he allow a friend to say “Nice tits” to his mother? His sister? His daughter?) And although I should know better, I, too, equate my body with my soul and the result, at least sometimes, is a deep shame of both.
Rape is a thousand times worse: The ultimate theft of self-control, it often leads to a breakdown in the victim’s sense of self-worth. Girls who are molested, for instance, often go on to engage in risky behavior—having intercourse at an early age, not using contraception, smoking, drinking, and doing drugs. This behavior, it seems to me, is at least in part because their self-perception as autonomous, worthy human beings in control of their environment has been taken from them.
Tags: sexuality society violence rape culture entitlement sexual-abuse abuse rape-culture sexual-violence harassment sexual-harassment hypersexualization
Culture, like science, is no protection against demons.
G.K. ChestertonTags: science morality culture vices demons
The clearest way to see through a culture is to attend to its tools for conversation.
Neil PostmanTags: communication media culture
My culture is my identity and personality. It gives me spiritual, intellectual and Emotional distinction from others, and I am proud of it.
M.F. MoonzajerTags: identity culture personality emotional
You can lead a whore to culture, but you can't make her think.
Stephen KingLove is only surpassing sweet when it is directed toward a mortal object, and the secret of this ultimate sweetness only is defined by the bitterness of death. Thus the white peoples of the world foresee a time when their land with its rivers and mountains still lies under heaven as it does today, but other people dwell there; when their language is entombed in books, and their laws and customs have lost their living power.
Franz RosenzweigTags: life death language law culture race europe white customs whites
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