Culture Quotes

It would be good for us Africans to accept ourselves as we are and recapture some of the positive as...

Every work of art is the child of its age and, in many cases, the mother of our emotions. It follows...

Novelty is a new kind of loneliness.

The growth of the exploiters' revolution on this continent has been accompanied by the growth of the...

One possibility is just to tag along with the fantasists in government and industry who would have u...

It could be said that a liberal education has the nature of a bequest, in that it looks upon the stu...

Akin to the idea that time is money is the concept, less spoken by as commonly assumed, that we may ...

Nobody loves a policeman until he needs one.

It is said culture requires slaves. I say that no cultured society can be built with slaves. This te...

The state is the soul of man enlarged under the microscope of history.

..we have become wealthy, and wealth is the prelude to art. In every country where centuries of phys...

Either a building is part of a place or it is not. Once that kinship is there, time will only make i...

The philosopher cannot seriously put to himself questions that his civilization has not lived.

For the first time in human evolution, the individual life is long enough, and the cultural transfor...

Paranoia is just having the right information.

Food for us comes from our relatives, whether they have wings or fins or roots. That is how we consi...

I grew up in an atmosphere where words were an integral part of culture.

There's no way to escape the culture that has evolved, from which we ourselves have evolved. Natural...

Don't forget that we lawyers, we're a higher breed of intellect, and so it's our privilege to lie. I...

For everything sacred has the substance of dreams and memories, and so we experience the miracle of ...

On street corners everywhere, people are looking at their cell phones, and it's easy to dismiss this...

It is good to recall that three centuries ago, around the year 1660, two of the greatest monuments o...

The image titled “The Homeless, Psalm 85:10,” featured on the cover of ELEMENTAL, can evoke multiple...

The theater has been called the pulse of the people.

How you act, walk, look and talk is all part of Hip Hop culture. And the music is colorless. Hip Hop...

Widespread state control over art and culture has left no room for freedom of expression in the coun...

China is an old nation with a colourful history. Its booming economy has triggered an appetite and a...

The things that are most popular are usually rubbish, stand up for what’s important, not popular.

When we, through our educational culture, through the media, through the entertainment culture, give...

There's a widespread cultural barrenness across art and political culture. But there are some pocket...

To my mind, this embracing of what were unambiguously children's characters at their mid-20th centur...

Sexually progressive cultures gave us literature, philosophy, civilization and the rest, while sexua...

Canada has a passive-aggressive culture, with a lot of sarcasm and righteousness. That went with my ...

Culture: the cry of men in face of their destiny.

In the world there is, parallel to the force of death and constraint, an enormous force of persuasio...

Without culture, and the relative freedom it implies, society, even when perfect, is but a jungle. T...

Like every other good thing in this world, leisure and culture have to be paid for. Fortunately, how...

In real life there is no such person as the average man. There are only particular men, women and ch...

in order to do evil, must first believe that what they are doing is good, otherwise they can't do it...

I have a feeling that we've seen the dismantling of civilisation, brick by brick, and now we're look...

It's because there are too many people who want to stop us having fun. That's the reason.

We live in a culture of complaint because everyone is always looking for things to complain about. I...

If it were not my purpose to combine barbarian things with things Hellenic, to traverse and civilize...

In America religion is the road to knowledge, and the observance of the divine laws leads man to civ...

The whole people contracts the habits and tastes of the magistrate.

There is no country in the world in which everything can be provided for by laws, or in which politi...

The greatest difficulty in antiquity with that of altering the law; among the moderns, it is that of...

The surface of American society is covered with a layer of democracy, from beneath which the old ari...

Nations as well as men require time to learn, whatever may be their intelligence or zeal.

There is a natural prejudice which prompts men to despise whomsoever has been their inferior long af...

Under the absolute sway of an individual despot the body was attacked in order to subdue the soul, a...

The practice which obtains amongst the Americans of fixing the standard of their judgment in themsel...

The forests were crippled, the wheat fields vanished; in place of the grass there reappeared stone a...

Culture is the study of perfection, and the constant effort to achieve it.

Architecture belongs to culture, not to civilization.

Yoga is the art work of awareness on the canvas of body, mind, and soul.

No two languages are ever sufficiently similar to be considered as representing the same social real...

The whole celebrity culture thing - I'm fascinated by, and repelled by, and yet I end up knowing abo...

What gay culture is before it is anything else, before it is a culture of desire or a culture of sub...

It's always great to have things from France at a wedding. It's symbolic of style, of culture, of ta...

We've finally given liberals a war against fundamentalism, and they don't want to fight it. They wou...

I've been thinking about the distorted view of science that prevails in our culture. I've been wonde...

I think a lot of times our culture has an attitude toward art and the production of art that separat...

The future is built on brains, not prom court, as most people can tell you after attending their hig...

Since everyone around you agrees ever since there were people on earth that land is value, or labor ...

Nobody in Singapore drinks Singapore Slings. It's one of the first things you find out there. What y...

Food is everything we are. It's an extension of nationalist feeling, ethnic feeling, your personal h...

The geniuses of all ages and of all lands speak different languages but the same flame burns in them...

Before saying anything further about culture, I consider the world is hungry and does not care about...

If there is still one hellish, truly accursed thing in our time, it is our artistic dallying with fo...

It is myopic to base sweeping change on the narrow experience of a few years.

The whole of language is a continuous process of metaphor, and the history of semantics is an aspect...

A good newspaper, I suppose, is a nation talking to itself.

In India we're fighting to retain a wilderness that we have. Whereas in the west, it's gone. Every p...

When we create out of our experiences, as feminists of color, women of color, we have to develop tho...

Let us recognize that we can no longer tolerate violent oppression of women in the name of religion ...

The people who believe themselves to be on the left, and who defend the agents of Islam in the name ...

correlation between the growing lack of respect for ideas and the imagination and the increasing gap...

Watching Italians eat (especially men, I have to say) is a form of tourism the books don't tell you ...

To stomp about the world ignoring cultural differences is arrogant, to be sure, but perhaps there is...

An often-repeated assertion in the body of film criticism I have written is the assertion that movie...

There are two kinds of cultures in this world: cultures where what you do matters and cultures where...

Military dictatorship is born from the power of the gun, and so it undermines the concept of the rul...

She was torn between her customer service training and her youthful certitude.

Be out of the mainstream. I'm out of the mainstream. I enjoy it, who wants to be in the mainstream?

First of all understand that I get it. That there are millions and millions of women who are steely ...

First of all understand that I get it. That there are millions and millions of women who are steely ...

New Rule: The White House doesn't have to release the dead Bin Laden photos, but don't pretend we ca...

Isn't it time we asked ourselves, are we willing to accept any behavior codified within religious or...

Saturday night at my house, I often trot out classic movies and force the urchins to watch them. The...

Our culture will stand in roaring ovations for the illusionists, escape artists, and magicians. Dece...

Our culture will stand in roaring ovations for the illusionists, escape artists, and magicians. Dece...

Our culture will stand in roaring ovations for the illusionists, escape artists, and magicians. Dece...

Our culture will stand in roaring ovations for the illusionists, escape artists, and magicians. Dece...

Our culture will stand in roaring ovations for the illusionists, escape artists, and magicians. Dece...

Our culture will stand in roaring ovations for the illusionists, escape artists, and magicians. Dece...

Our culture will stand in roaring ovations for the illusionists, escape artists, and magicians. Dece...

Our culture will stand in roaring ovations for the illusionists, escape artists, and magicians. Dece...

I think music in itself is healing. It's an explosive expression of humanity. It's something we are ...

The dominant myth of the day seemed to be that anybody could do anything, even go to the moon. You c...