Perspectives on Ideas. April 19, 2007.

Crowds
Crowds 159 ...for it’s not at all necessary for a crowd to know what they are cheering about. Dickens, Pickwick.

Cruelty
Cruelty 218 …the intoxication of cruelty…. Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov.

Cruelty 177 Among other vices I hate cruelty, both by nature and judgment, as the extreme of all vices. Montaigne, Selected Essays.

Culture
Cultural differences 124 In Damascus, after I had shown a certain polite (I thought) interest in a young Syrian woman whose backyard lay right below our hotel window, I was warned by a representative of the hotel that under Islamic law the father could have my hand chopped off for such boldness…I stopped waving to her. Bradley, Time Present, Time Past.

Cultural differences 144 A key to our world leadership as a pluralistic democracy with a growing economy is our knowledge of other cultures. Bradley, Time Present, Time Past.

Cultural differences 144 Different languages challenge; different customs enrich; different political ideas broaden; different attitudes about the world surprise; different perceptions of American reality enlighten. Bradley, Time Present, Time Past.

Cultural differences 144 If we can absorb these new influences that make us a world society, even as we take note of the perspectives they offer about who we are as Americans, we can truly show the world the future. Bradley, Time Present, Time Past.

Culture 717 All cultures have evolved out of a suppression of instincts. Irving Stone, The Passions of the Mind (Life of Freud).

Culture 239 Culture…is…an atmosphere and a heritage--say that of the Renaissance or that of the pre-Revolutionary Eighteenth Century. Mencken, Minority Report.

Culture 239 Take a boy from one cultural milieu and try to outfit him with the ideas, traditions, tastes and prejudices of another, and you succeed only in bewildering and demoralizing him. Mencken, Minority Report.

Culture 1051 As respects the delicate question of culture, I do not think that any other than negative rules can be laid down. Emerson, The Conduct of Life: Behavior.

Culture 51 Schopenhauer remarked that the duel and venereal diseases were the only contributions to culture the race had made since the classical period…. W M Wheeler. A Random Walk in Science.

Curse
Curse 152 Formula for excommunication: ...we anathematize, execrate, curse and cast out.... Will Durant, The Story of Philosophy, Spinoza.

Curse 152 Formula for excommunication: Let him be accursed by day, and accursed by night; let him be accursed in his lying down; and accursed in his rising up; accursed in going out and accursed in coming in. Will Durant, The Story of Philosophy, Spinoza.

Curse 156 Formula for excommunication: May the Lord never more pardon or acknowledge him; may the wrath and displeasure of the Lord burn henceforth against this man, load him with all the curses written in the Book of the Law, and blot out his name from under the sky; may the Lord sever him...from all the tribes of Israel, weight him with all the maledictions of the firmament.... Will Durant, The Story of Philosophy, Spinoza.

Curse 152 Formula for excommunication: Hereby then are all admonished that none hold converse with him by word of mouth, none hold communication with him by writing; that no one do him any service, no one abide under the same roof with him, no one approach within four cubits length of him, and no one read any document dictated by him, or written by his hand. Will Durant, The Story of Philosophy, Spinoza.

Curse 888 Sanchicha [Sancho’s daughter]: A bad year and a bad month to all the backbiting bitches in the world. Miguel de Cervantes, Don Quixote of La Mancha. Part Two: 1615.

Cynicism
Cynicism 692 With a little more bitterness, the cynic moans: our life is like an ass led to market by a bundle of hay being carried before him: he sees nothing but the bundle of hay. Emerson, Representative Men: Montaigne, or The Skeptic.

Cynicism 693 “There is so much trouble coming into the world,” said Lord Bolingbroke, “and so much more, as well as meanness, in going out of it, that ‘tis hardly worth while to be here at all.” Emerson, Representative Men: Montaigne, or The Skeptic.

Cynicism 721 …the professor’s tone represented that of worldly society at large, where a cold skepticism smothers what it can of our spiritual aspirations, and makes the rest ridiculous. Hawthorne, The Blithedale Romance.

Cynicism 87 “Relativism leads to skepticism, skepticism to indifference, and indifference leads to cynicism…corrosive of all good human institutions.” Justice Anthony Kennedy. Jeffrey Rosen, “Annals of Law: The Agonizer.” The New Yorker, November 1966.