Pastoral Resources

What most people in our culture mean by being lovable is essentially a mixture between being popular and having sex appeal.

Man's biological weakness is the condition of human culture.

It is of the essence of imaginative culture that it transcends the limits both of the naturally possible and of the morally acceptable.

Culture's essential service to a religion is to destroy intellectual idolatry, the recurrent tendency in religion to replace the object of its worship with its present understanding and forms of approach to that object.

The rapprochement of peoples is only possible when differences of culture and outlook are respected and appreciated rather than feared and condemned, when the common bond of human dignity is recognized as the essential bond for a peaceful world.

It's not worth it, it's not about money, especially when you're dealing with a culture. It should be about elevating the idea of what we are and who we are as people in the cinema, and that kind of stuff keeps dragging us back down.

Why is it that, as a culture, we are more comfortable seeing two men holding guns than holding hands?

The commencement speech is not, I think, a wholly satisfactory manifestation of our culture.

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

No culture can live if it attempts to be exclusive.

A nation's culture resides in the hearts and in the soul of its people.

Culture of the mind must be subservient to the heart.

The center of Western culture is Greece, and we have never lost our ties with the architectural concepts of that ancient civilization.

A lot of knowledge in any kind of an organization is what we call task knowledge. These are things that people who have been there a long time understand are important, but they may not know how to talk about them. It's often called the culture of the organization.

A people without the knowledge of their past history, origin and culture is like a tree without roots.

I've always been fascinated by Asian culture, and I love that women can play the lead in a horror film.

When Culture Club broke up, I hadn't been going out a lot because we'd been working all the time, so I suddenly had this period of leisure. And it was just around the time that the whole acid house thing kicked off in London.

I don't think anyone could write about another culture and get it 100 percent accurate.

Our culture is in moral chaos. On TV we celebrate freaks instead of honest, decent people.

The welfare culture tells the man he is not a necessary part of the family; he feels dispensable, his wife knows he is dispensable, his children sense it.