Pastoral Resources

Whoever controls the media, the images, controls the culture.

So American culture is itself a hybrid and lends itself to use in other people's hybrids.

I do like things that are not necessarily a reflection of what is considered the right thing by this culture. Somehow, promoting that status quo I find uninteresting.

Whenever I hear the word culture, I reach for my Browning!

Piety is not a goal but a means to attain through the purest peace of mind the highest culture.

Hatred is something peculiar. You will always find it strongest and most violent where there is the lowest degree of culture.

It is confusing, because in this culture we really don't have anything that corresponds to geisha.

I studied Japanese language and culture in college and graduate school, and afterward went to work in Tokyo, where I met a young man whose father was a famous businessman and whose mother was a geisha.

Past conference topics have included strengthening the role of fathers in children's lives, the impact of the media culture on children, the delicate balance between work and family, and family involvement in education.

Science is an integral part of culture. It's not this foreign thing, done by an arcane priesthood. It's one of the glories of the human intellectual tradition.

You're a Catholic in Italy when you're born, it's unthinkable to stop being Catholic. You just take the rules a lot more seriously, because it pervades your culture.

Whenever culture has gone through a radical change, as ours has - from industrial age to information age - there are people who will deny that things have changed; they resist it and refuse to change.

In traditional schools, you're penalized for making a mistake. But that won't work in the new information culture, in the digital world we live in today.

English culture is basically homosexual in the sense that the men only really care about other men.

There are people who wish to do us harm in the most heinous way. They want to kill Americans simply because they are Americans. They wish to destroy our culture and Nation because they don't like our freedoms, they don't like the fact that we are prosperous.

Just as the slave master required the slaves to imitate the image he had of them, so women, who live in a relatively powerless position, politically and economically, feel obliged by a kind of implicit force to live up to culture's image of what is female.

Jazz, rock and roll, movies and comics are the culture of America.

The down side of Americans being obsessed with pop culture is that they kind of like it light.

Ancient eschatological texts are actually maps of the inner territories of the psyche that seem to transcend race and culture and originate in the collective unconscious.

For any culture which is primarily concerned with meaning, the study of death - the only certainty that life holds for us - must be central, for an understanding of death is the key to liberation in life.