Richard Ashcroft Quotes

Your basic person wants to talk about material culture, internet culture. I think about God, cats, nature.

Pop culture has none of the vibrancy that you find in the folk culture, where people speak directly to their own experience in the human condition.

Because they are inherently social, people find value in reading the same books and watching the same movies that others do.

We have more difficult circumstances than most of the Arab countries but in spite of that Syria is stable. Why? Because you have to be very closely linked to the beliefs of the people. This is the core issue.

Modern culture is a tremendous force.

If we had this back, and in full measure; if society were infused by it, through and through, and men lived its life, and in its life, philosophy would take care of itself and the nature of our institutions would not matter.

For traditional societies … the collective, the group, is more important than the individual, and empowering the individual is equated with dividing the society.

The law expresses the values and aspirations of our society.

Although the world has undergone many changes, both good and bad, in the past century, change need not imply the loss of traditional values. Nor is progress another word for moral decay. It is not development and progress which jeopardize values and morality but rather the absence of a strong and secure moral foundation developed first and foremost in the family. Surely, it is possible for one to enjoy the conveniences of modern life-airplanes and automobiles, computers and cell phones, microwaves and VCRs-without losing one's sense of values. When we love God, love our families, we can enjoy life without betraying the practices of decency, without abandoning the traditions of our cultures.

In a religious world, secular human rights of recent heritage and ambiguous origin increasingly compete with long-standing cultural claims legitimated by traditions and gods.

When I grew up, there was a monoculture. Everybody listened to the same music on the radio. I miss monoculture. I think it's good for people to have a shared experience.

The modern holy trinity is money, sex and celebrity.

It is the meaning of what my life has been since a youth - to try to fight for the dignity and the freedom of my own people.

I believe in equal rights for all people.

When you believe in what you are doing, when you are seeking justice for the killing of Daniel Pearl, when you want to alert public opinion to the plight of the massacred people of Darfur, or in the recently martyred former Soviet republic Georgia, it makes more sense to use the media than to work in silence.

You either believe women are people or you don't. It's that simple.

I have described religion as the metaphysics of the people.

Indian culture is essentially much more of a we culture. It's a communal culture where you do what's best for the community - you procreate.

Every sport pretends to a literature, but people don't believe it of any other sport but their own.

In my class was an Annapolis graduate, several engineers, and most recent president of the University of Alabama.These were all small-town people who had good values. The families were tight. The schools reaffirmed the families and reaffirmed the church values that you were taught. I guess it was just one of those swell times to be a part of.

People will identify with a persecuted minority without asking themselves what they are identifying with.

As I contemplate the kind of future I want for children-my own and other people's-I believe we must look inward to God for guidance and strength and backward to draw on the values and legacies of our families, ancestors, and communities.

The Righteous Mind: Why Good People are Divided by Politics and Religion.

...religion is a tool to bind people together, to strengthen their unity, but like every tool, it can be mismanaged, even used in opposition to the way it should.

The majority of the American people still believe that every single individual in this country is entitled to just as much respect, just as much dignity, as every other individual.