Quotes about "Indigenous Wisdom"

When liberals finally grasped the strength of popular feeling about the family, they cried to appropriate the rhetoric and symbolism of family values for their own purposes. ”

The left has come to regard common sense - the traditional wisdom and folkways of the community - as an obstacle to progress and enlightenment. ”

Conservatives unwittingly side with the social forces that contribute to the destruction of traditional values. ”

Conservatives have no understanding of modern capitalism. They have a distorted understanding of the traditional values they claim to defend. ”

Knowledge is what we get when an observer, preferably a scientifically trained observer, provides us with a copy of reality that we can all recognize. ”

I boldly assert, in fact I think I know, that a lot of friendships and connections absolutely depend upon a sort of shared language, or slang. Not necessarily designed to exclude others, this can establish a certain comity and, even after a long absence, re-establish it in a second. ”

The suicide-bombing community is not absolutely 100 percent religious, but it is pretty nearly 100 percent religious. ”

Mother Nature is the great equalizer. You can't get away from it. ”

The main thing that's important to me is getting to do whatever project it is the way that I do what I do, and that's different. To go to an entity - whether it's a traditional film studio or some newer company, or HBO, Amazon or Netflix - they would have to know that I need to work the way I work. ”

My sentiments for the American cause, from the Stamp Act downward, have never changed... I am still of opinion that it is the cause of liberty and of human nature. ”