"We don't evaluate what's right and wrong, we live in a society. We live in a culture. We have to live within the culture."

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Source : "What Donald Sterling did right on race". Leaked Conversation with V. Stiviano, www.washingtonpost.com. April 30, 2014.

Donald Sterling

#Culture Quotes

“Hereafter we shall be compelled to acknowledge that the only distinction between species and well-marked varieties is, that the latter are known, or believed to be connected at the present day by intermediate gradations whereas species were formerly thus connected.”
“As you grow older, you'll see white men cheat black men every day of your life, but let me tell you something and don't you forget it - whenever a white man does that to a black man, no matter who he is, how rich he is, or how fine a family he comes from, he is trash.”

Source : To Kill a Mockingbird ch. 23 (1960)
“The way that a handful of corporations in Los Angeles dictate how our stories are told creates a real poverty of imagination and it's a big problem.”

Source : Interview with Maximilian Le Cain, sensesofcinema.com. January, 2003.
“There were thousands of brown books in leather bindings, some chained to the book-shelves and others propped against each other as if they had had too much to drink and did not really trust themselves. These gave out a smell of must and solid brownness which was most secure.”
“I ne'er could any lustre see In eyes that would not look on me; I ne'er saw nectar on a lip But where my own did hope to sip.”
“We should not minimize the great outstanding service of Eugenics for critical and diagnostic investigations. It demonstrates ... that uncontrolled fertility is universally correlated with disease, poverty, overcrowding and the transmission of hereditable traits.”
“If you run an Internet search on Vietnam and the war, most of the information you get begins at about 1962. I think this is telling. It is missing the whole period that led up to the reasons the war happened in the first place”
“A true world outlook is incompatible with a foreign imperialism, no matter how high-minded the governing country.”

Source : Wendell L. Willkie (1943). “Prefaces TO PEACE”

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