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“if you want to make a human being into a monster, deny them, at the cultural level, any reflection of themselves.”
― Junot Díaz

“There is no country in the world in which everything can be provided for by laws, or in which political institutions can prove a substitute for common sense and public morality.”
― Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America

“We are all of us, to some degree or another, brainwashed by the society we live in. We are able to see this when we travel to another country, and are able to catch a glimpse of our own country with foreign eyes.. the best we can hope for is that a kindly friend from another culture will enable us to look at our culture with dispassionate eyes.”
― Doris Lessing, Prisons We Choose to Live Inside

“Our culture, so proud of its mind-over-matter philosophy, cuts us off from our bodily experience and from the earth itself. In this severance, our sexuality is negated, our senses assaulted, our environment abused, and our power manipulated. Our ground is our form, and without it we lose our individuality.”
― Anodea Judith, Eastern Body, Western Mind: Psychology and the Chakra System as a Path to the Self

“Richard Wright and his Negro intellectual colleagues never realized the plain truth that no one in the United States understood the revolutionary potential of the Negro better than the Negro's white radical allies. They understood it instinctively, and revolutionary theory had little to do with it. What Wright could not see was that what the Negro's allies feared most of all was that this sleeping, dream-walking black giant might wake up and direct the revolution all by himself, relegating his white allies to a humiliating second-class status. The negro's allies were not about to tell the Negro anything that might place him on the path to greater power and independence in the revolutionary movement than they themselves had. The rules of the power game meant that unless the American Negro taught himself the profound implications of his own revolutionary significance in America, it would never be taught to him by anybody else. Unless the Negro intellectuals understood that in pursuit of this self-understanding, they would have to make their own rules, by and for themselves, nationalism would forever remain--as it was for Wright-- "a bewildering and vexing question.”
― Harold Cruse

“What did you do for them, Bone? Teach them to read and write? Help them rebuild, give them Christ, help restore a culture? Did you remember to warn them that it could never be Eden?”
― Walter M. Miller Jr, A Canticle for Leibowitz

“The path to the ethnic democratization of American society is through its culture, that is to say through its cultural apparatus, which comprises the eyes, the ears, and the "mind" of capitalism and is twentieth-century voice to the world. Thus to democratize the cultural apparatus is tantamount to revolutionizing American society itself into the living realization of its professed ideas. Seeing the problem in another way, to revolutionize the cultural apparatus is to deal fundamentally with the unsolved American question of nationality--Which group speaks for America and for the glorification of which ethnic image? Either all group images speak for themselves and for the nation, or American nationality will never be determined.”
― Harold Cruse, The Crisis of the Negro Intellectual: A Historical Analysis of the Failure of Black Leadership

“Under the absolute sway of an individual despot the body was attacked in order to subdue the soul, and the soul escaped the blows which were directed against it and rose superior to the attempt; but such is not the course adopted by tyranny in democratic republics; there the body is left free, and the soul is enslaved.”
― Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America

“Violence is violence and can in no way be misconstrued as discipline under any circumstance cultural or otherwise.”
― Aysha Taryam

“Your blanks have been filled in far differently from those of a child grown up in the filth and poverty”
― John Howard Griffin, Black Like Me

“The surface of American society is covered with a layer of democracy, from beneath which the old aristocratic colors sometimes peep.”
― Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America

“The feeling of a place was the best reason to go.”
― Robert Kurson, Pirate Hunters: Treasure, Obsession, and the Search for a Legendary Pirate Ship

“She feared that she would become a slave to superficial, symbolic duties.”
― Doris Kearns Goodwin, No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: The Home Front in World War II

“The whole people contracts the habits and tastes of the magistrate.”
― Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America

“One did not need to penetrate David's secret counsels or insinuate a man in his bodyguard. All one needed was a pair of years and access to the royal precincts. Just to eavesdrop upon his singing was to develop an accurate idea of his state of mind.”
― Geraldine Brooks, The Secret Chord

“In Gladstone's mature years he lost faith not in God but in the ability of any government or state to act as the agent of God.”
― George F. Will, The Woven Figure: Conservatism and America's Fabric

“Liberalism is not fond of fun, or at least of many forms of fun that many people like.”
― George F. Will, The Woven Figure: Conservatism and America's Fabric

“They looked more like day laborers than seamen.”
― Erik Larson, Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania

“For every Aruna story we hear there are hundreds of thousands that will never be heard, swept under the great rug of shame societies have so eloquently woven. It is up to us to speak up, to lift this heavy rug and reveal the ugliness it conceals.”
― Aysha Taryam

“In the context of today, this WAS heroism.”
― John Howard Griffin, Black Like Me

“People think that other international languages are smarter and more business wise. But they have to understand that we have to preserve our culture.”
― Enock Maregesi

“Laws are always unstable unless they are founded upon the manners of the nation; manners are the only durable and resisting power in a people.”
― Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America

“Alexander Hamilton reflected as early as the middle of the Revolutionary War that rallying at the last minute was part of the national character of his countrymen.”
― John Ferling, Jefferson and Hamilton: The Rivalry That Forged a Nation

“Enough anecdotes make a pattern.”
― George F. Will, The Woven Figure: Conservatism and America's Fabric

“A bad song you can't forget is called an earworm. The way to get rid of an earworm is to deliberately remember an equally awful song.”
― Matt Chandler

“Our culture will stand in roaring ovations for the illusionists, escape artists, and magicians. Deception is everything opposite the truth.”
― Billy Graham, Billy graham in quotes

“Human cultures construct an enormous variety of environments through language, technology, and institutions. We are born in and die in these systems of symbols and imagination.”
― William E. Paden

“Make this part of your brand DNA... Tell Your Story In a Way People Will Care.”
― Ted Rubin

“Lewis is like a gateway, making the riches of Deep Church more accessible.”
― Alister E. McGrath, If I Had Lunch with C.S. Lewis: Exploring the Ideas of C.S. Lewis on the Meaning of Life

“The American Club was for those who preferred to have dinner at six and brunch on a Sunday and avoid the stress of dealing with Greeks and their language.”
― John Mole, It's All Greek to Me!: A Tale of a Mad Dog and an Englishman, Ruins, Retsina--and Real Greeks