Our culture's obsession with vintage objects has rendered us unable to separate history from nostalgia. People want heart. They want a chaser of emotion with their aesthetics.

Of course nobody would deny the importance of human beings for theological thinking but the time span of history that theologians think about is a few thousand years of human culture rather than the fifteen billion years of the history of the universe.

Debate and divergence of views can only enrich our history and culture.

Anybody who comes to the cinema is bringing they're whole sexual history their literary history their movie literacy their culture their language their religion whatever they've got. I can't possibly manipulate all of that nor do I want to.

To be converted you have to destroy your past destroy your history. You have to stamp on it you have to say 'my ancestral culture does not exist it doesn't matter.'

Humanity has experienced many revolutionary changes over the course of history: revolutions in agriculture in science industrial production as well as numerous political revolutions. But these have all been limited to the external aspects of our individual and collective lives.

I don't have space to enter into the examples or the history of this so I'm left with having to make the bold statement that culture is extinct.

We have our own history our own language our own culture. But our destiny is also tied up with the destinies of other people - history has made us all South Africans.

History shows that when the church accommodates culture it weakens it.

All objects all phases of culture are alive. They have voices. They speak of their history and interrelatedness. And they are all talking at once!

Our culture now wonderfully alchemically transforms images and history into artistic material. The possibilities seem endless and wide open.

'WASP' is the only ethnic term that is in fact a term of class apart from redneck which is another word for the same group but who are in the lower social strata so it's inexplicably tied up with social standing and culture and history in a way that the other hyphenations just are not.

We have not invaded anyone. We have not conquered anyone. We have not grabbed their land their culture their history and tried to enforce our way of life on them.

I think really China Chinese I think they really have a long history of civilization rich culture.

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

The real 1960s began on the afternoon of November 22 1963. It came to seem that Kennedy's murder opened some malign trap door in American culture and the wild bats flapped out.

And what we're doing in Ohio is we're moving from a basic manufacturing economy to one that's diversified including energy and health care and agriculture and IT.