Tradition has made women cowardly.

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

Preservation of one's own culture does not require contempt or disrespect for other cultures.

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

If you want to change the culture, you will have to start by changing the organization.

Society or culture or whatever you might want to call it, has created us all solely and wholly for the purpose of maintaining its continuity and status quo.

Culture is the arts elevated to a set of beliefs.

No culture can live if it attempts to be exclusive.

When a tradition gathers enough strength to go on for centuries, you don't just turn it off one day.

Tradition is the illusion of permanence.

Tradition is a guide and not a jailer.

Tradition does not mean that the living are dead, it means that the dead are living.

I like the tradition of ordinary men in extraordinary circumstances and how they react to events which force them to be heroic in a way that is not in their natures.

Youth culture now really looks back and embraces the past, but keeps it contemporary but not sticking to one particular style.

Pop culture is a reflection of social change, not a cause of social change.

Culture is a way of coping with the world by defining it in detail.

I just think that some version of the past in our culture is going to rise up and become dominant.

Tradition demands that we not speak poorly of the dead.

Everything is arranged so that it be this way, this is what is called culture.

Popular culture has become engorged, broadening and thickening until it's the only culture anyone notices.

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

Culture is not made up but something that evolves which is human.

If we are to preserve culture we must continue to create it.

Everybody blames the culture without taking responsibility.

We are all part of a tradition, at least we depend on the past.

Custom is the great guide to human life.

Habit is necessary; it is the habit of having habits, of turning a trail into a rut, that must be incessantly fought against if one is to remain alive.

Traditions are the guideposts driven deep in our subconscious minds. The most powerful ones are those we can't even describe, aren't even aware of.

Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead.

Culture makes all men gentle.

I can't imagine myself doing something like 'Narnia' again. I would love to do something with Ridley Scott, you know, some action/adventure or something like that. But I'd also love to do a dramatic piece. It's really just whatever you read and take to.

Bloody Christmas, here again, let us raise a loving cup, peace on earth, goodwill to men, and make them do the washing up.

I just write what I wanted to write. I write what amuses me. It's totally for myself. I never in my wildest dreams expected this popularity.

I am formless and everywhere. I am in everything. I am in everything and beyond. I fill all space. All that you see, taken together, is Myself. I do not shake or move.

I sympathize with the zombies and am not even sure they are villains. To me they are this earth-changing thing. God or the devil changed the rules, and dead people are not staying dead.

Theory is worth but little, unless it can explain its own phenomena, and it must effect this without contradicting itself; therefore, the facts are sometimes assimilated to the theory, rather than the theory to the facts.

It’s not about ideas. It’s about making ideas happen.

If it wasn't for the coffee, I'd have no identifiable personality whatsover.

I will continue to practice a martial arts form along with the mental and spiritual aspect that come with building a balanced life, and I will continue to incorporate it into whatever films I can.

I mean, if a person acts irresponsibly in his own life, he will pay the consequences. And it's not so much divine retribution as it's built into the law of nature.

The saddest utensil I've come across is an 'anti-loneliness ramen bowl,' which holds your iPhone to keep you company as you slurp your solitary bowl of noodles. But the iPhone cannot return your gaze or reassure you that you didn't squeeze too much lime into the soup, though maybe a dinner-conversation app is only a matter of time.

There's always someone following your next step.

My favorite foods are things that aren't great to eat, like pizza.

Of all the arguments against voluntary euthanasia the most influential is the slippery slope once we allow doctors to kill patients we will not be able to limit the killing to those who want to die.

I grew up doing a lot of traveling. My mom left home when she was 15 and traveled to 48 different countries and speaks six different languages. So I grew up with my eyes open. She raised me so that if my heart says something is wrong, I have to go help. What's right is right and what's wrong is wrong.

Music is like the soul of the planet.

After I found April Barrows, I felt I had found a soul mate. Her stuff is exactly what I was looking for.

Karate is not about techniques and their execution, but about boldness, integrity and fight for justice and common good.

Tequila is like Duck tape, it fixes damn nearly everything.