“The UN declaration on human rights must always be first in line before religion or other cultural habits, in case of any conflict between them.”

There is a very vibrant cultural scene in Stockholm. There are lots of places where there are concerts, and there are loads of museums and theaters.

And also a lot of Muslims are no more religious then the average Swede. For them it’s natural that human rights come first.

To doubt is to have faith in the worst possible outcome.

You sit there for hours, days and weeks with a guitar and piano until something good comes.

Some values must be universal, like human rights and the equal worth of every human being.

I just assumed we were being sent up. But now I see they were paying tribute to us

The situation in America is when it starts moving there, all the bands from England move over to America and work from there, so that they’re available all the time for everyone that wants them in person.

It had been only through books-at best, no more than vicarious cultural transfusions-that I had managaed to keep myself alive in a negatively vital way.

Seen as an economic, political, cultural, and psychological re-membering vision, it should continue to guide remembering practices

You don’t even want to play that game. You want to reclaim your mind and get it out of the hands of the cultural engineers who want to turn you into a half-baked moron consuming all this trash that’s being manufactured out of the bones of a dying world.

A higher standard of living also brings about a higher standard of culture and civilization.

When you shed the cultural operating system, then essentially you stand naked before the inspection of your own psyche.

Everybody knows that fraternities are a normal culture in all colleges. It exists in all colleges. President Clinton was a member of a fraternity. In fact, anybody who goes to College in the United States is a member of a College fraternity. There is absolutely nothing evil or occultic about fraternity.

Another way of judging the value of a prophet’s religious experience, therefore, would be to examine the type of manhood that he has created, and the cultural world that has sprung out of the spirit of his message.

Human nature is almost unbelievably malleable, responding accurately and contrastingly to contrasting cultural conditions.