Terence McKenna (Terence Kemp McKenna) Quotes

Culture is a plot against the expansion of consciousness.

Terence McKenna

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• The music is just so rich and part of the culture there. I suddenly felt like I needed to go on this mission to make sure we save New Orleans because - not that I can save anything - but it's so much part of what this country is, this whole mix of people coming together and doing this thing.

  

  Harold Perrineau
  • People
  • Music
  • Country

• The real problem at the moment is that the banks - because of their existing culture, which is frankly anti-business, obsession with short-term trading profits, not focusing on the long term - are throttling the recovery of British industry.

  

  Vince Cable
  • Long
  • Real
  • Business

• I did all of California from north to south. I did Florida from north to south. I went to the Midwest. I spent time discovering the culture because I thought I was going to stay in America for only two years. Then I decided to come to New York.

  

  Daniel Boulud
  • Time
  • America
  • Culture

• New York is rich in culture, cuisine, and commerce.

  

  Patricia Marx
  • Culture
  • New
  • New York

• The air of the English is down-to-earth. They care about details; there's a tradition, but there's also a counter-culture: the younger generation versus the older generation and so on. But then that's well blended into a happy balance and crystallised into common sense.

  

  Tadashi Yanai
  • Happy
  • Earth
  • Culture

• I think a culture can really be elevated through the arts, and it's always a dream come true when I come across roles that enable me to fuse my love of storytelling with my passion for activism and raising social awareness.

  

  Nazanin Boniadi
  • Love
  • True
  • Dream

• In American culture we are supposed to take a pill when we're depressed or in grief as opposed to actually feeling.

  

  Laura Dern
  • American
  • Culture
  • Feeling

• There isn't a lot written about the motorcycle culture.

  

  Katey Sagal
  • Culture
  • Motorcycle
  • Lot

• The purpose of education is to keep a culture from being drowned in senseless repetitions, each of which claims to offer a new insight.

  

  Harold Rosenberg
  • Culture
  • Education
  • Purpose

• Latinos been a part of hip-hop culture and every other culture; we've been influential in every aspect of life.

  

  Fat Joe
  • Life
  • Culture
  • Hip Hop

• From 1970 onwards, our culture told both sexes that individual expression was paramount. And for women, that was defined as the right to choose an interesting a career, a high-status mate, the desirable handbag or vacation, the perfect family size, and a definitionally fruitless quest for 'perfection.'

  

  Naomi Wolf
  • Women
  • Family
  • High

• I grew up in Jerusalem and went to school here. I studied at the Hebrew University - mostly Islam and Arabic: Arab literature, Arab poetry and culture, because I felt like we are living in this region, in the Middle East, and we are not alone: There are nations here whose culture is Arab.

  

  Yitzhak Navon
  • Up
  • School
  • Culture

• On a group of theories one can found a school; but on a group of values one can found a culture, a civilization, a new way of living together among men.

  

  Ignazio Silone
  • Men
  • School
  • Together

• From the subtle to the extreme, our culture and our values are under unrelenting attack from the media.

  

  Tammy Bruce
  • Culture
  • Values
  • Media

• I'm pleased that the Ministry of Culture is protecting the morals of the expat bankers and their girlfriends that are going to be coming.

  

  Mick Jagger The Rolling Stones
  • Culture

• The population is in a constant state of enforced dislocation. So let us hope that a totally new culture will come out of this.

  

  Ai Weiwei
  • Hope
  • Culture

• The artificial separation of politics and culture is nowhere more pronounced than in the discourse of foreign policy and international affairs.

  

  Ellen Willis
  • Culture

• Kinsey was trying to study sex scientifically, get rid of the overlay of culture and religion.

  

  Bill Condon
  • Trying
  • Culture
  • Study

• Written in support of abolishing the Corn Laws, it became Elliott's most famous poem. The Peoples Anthem When wilt thou save the people Oh, God of mercy! When? Not kings and lords, but nations! Not thrones and crowns, but men! Flowers of thy heart, of God they are. Let them not pass like weeds, away Their heritage a sunless day! God save the people! When wilt thou save the people? Oh, God of mercy! When? The people Lord the people! Not thrones and crowns, but men! God save the people! Thine they are, Thy children, as thy angels fair, Save them from bondage and despair. God save the people!

  

  Ebenezer Elliott
  • God
  • Children
  • Support

• I think a joke is a form of truth-telling. A good joke that's absurd contains elements of our daily darkness and also a possibility to escape that darkness. So, for me, humor is an attempt to capture everyday tragedy and everyday hopeful moments that we experience all of the time.

  Colson Whitehead
  • Time
  • Good
  • Experience

• Everybody's funny if you love them.

  

  Anna Torv
  • Funny

• You go to Paris, or you go to Portugal, you go to Poland, and you ask, 'Who are you people?' They'll tell you, we're Portuguese, we're Spanish, we're Polish. Who are the people that are really European? The people in Brussels, in the E.U. bureaucracy. Europe has not been able to move to the level of patriotic identification with the concept.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • People
  • You
  • Paris

• People find life entirely too time-consuming.

  

  Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
  • Time
  • Consuming

• Culture is a plot against the expansion of consciousness.

  

  Terence McKenna
  • Culture
  • Consciousness
  • Expansion