Culture Quotes

Pop culture shapes our ideas of what is normal and what our dreams can be and what our roles are. Po...

the sense of a small courageous community barely existing above the desert of trees, hemmed in by a ...

The thread of culture that runs through the entire history of punk is also a dedication to challengi...

In the transmission of human culture, people always attempt to replicate, to pass on to the next gen...

The loss of quality that is so evident at every level of spectacular language, from the objects it g...

Indeed, there is much in pure humanitarian culture, as opposed to rigid scientific training, which e...

Often I felt that these men were play-acting: the unreality of their role was their security, even t...

There's very little authentic study of the humanities remaining. My research assistant came to me tw...

Memory is always in art, even when it works involuntarily.

Great writing is always rewriting or revisionism, and is founded on a reading that clears space for ...

A poem, novel, or play acquires all of humanity's disorders, including the fear of mortality

One mark of originality that can win canonical status for a literary work is strangeness that we eit...

Reviewing bad books is bad for the character – WH Auden

One reads for oneself and for strangers.

The purpose of education is to keep a culture from being drowned in senseless repetitions, each of w...

Nature doesn't need people - people need nature; nature would survive the extinction of the human be...

...imagine anybody having lived forty-five or fifty years without knowing Hamlet! One might as well ...

Culture is the habit of being pleased with the best and knowing why.

Culture is the habit of being pleased with the best and knowing why.

Culture is the habit of being pleased with the best and knowing why.

Culture is the habit of being pleased with the best and knowing why.

The worth of a civilization or a culture is not valued in the terms of its material wealth or milita...

You cannot impose a culture from the top--it must come from under. It grows out of the soil, out of ...

The “music of decline” had sounded, as in that wonderful Chinese fable; like a thrumming bass on the...

If anyone, no matter who, were given the opportunity of choosing from amongst all the nations in the...

Captive Greece captured her rude conqueror

I do feel like I have always, in my life, been inclined to be on the outside, walk a different path ...

I've heard it argued that long ago pain begat consciousness...Adversity forced awareness on us, and ...

On a group of theories one can found a school; but on a group of values one can found a culture, a c...

There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-int...

To me, science is an expression of the human spirit, which reaches every sphere of human culture. It...

Amusement has always been the great moving force behind culture.

The quality of a society and of its culture will depend on the status of its unemployed.

Even their insistence on educating their children, the last reflex of any exploited group before it ...

In my own opinion, the average American's cultural shortcomings can be likened to those of the educa...

…of constipation of the brain & diarrhea of the mouth.

Culture and collars had gone together, to him, and he had been deceived into believing that college ...

The world is getting so small. Young people are mobile; they want to travel around the world. When y...

Cinema reflects culture and there is no harm in adapting technology, but not at the cost of losing y...

New needs need new techniques. And the modern artists have found new ways and new means of making th...

Whoever wants to know the heart and mind of America had better learn baseball, the rules and realiti...

Just as we seldom realize that we are growing old until we are already old, so do the contemporary a...

It's a saying they have, that a man has a false heart in his mouth for the world to see, another in ...

America was first colonized by Puritans. Most of our earliest immigrants, and many since, have come ...

Jesus was a bachelor and never lived with a woman. Surely living with a woman is one of the most dif...

While the United States is becoming the most culturally diverse nation in the world, less than 5.5% ...

Who we are is not a question we can ask without seeking to understand the context in which we live. ...

The biblical counselor must always remember that the ROOT problem is deeper than skin; it is sin. Th...

In Europe they call geeks 'smart people,' and frankly I think we live in a culture that doesn't valu...

It was always so hot, and everyone was so polite, and everything was all surface but underneath it w...

Zombies are familiar characters in philosophical thought experiments. They are like people in every ...

Culture is the widening of the mind and of the spirit

Literature is a state of culture, poetry is a state of grace, before and after culture.

This Captain had been brought up in Istanbul. His mind was made of minarets and domes. He capped him...

Cultures aren’t so much planned as they evolve from that early set of people.

New Yorkers only cross water for visual culture if the water is an ocean. The East River throws us f...

Education, family, character, intelligence, humility, okay? These are the things that make a culture...

I had only some dim and unformed sense, a sense which struck me now and then, and which I could not ...

An aristocratic culture does not advertise its emotions. In its forms of expression it is sober and ...

Piety is not a goal but a means to attain through the purest peace of mind the highest culture.

Publicity is the life of this culture - in so far as without publicity capitalism could not survive ...

Our political system is now run by the Big People for their own interests. If they ever deign to not...

Science contributes to our culture in many ways, as a creative intellectual activity in its own righ...

Gulliver was soon being read "from the cabinet council to the nursery".

Information and inspiration are everywhere... history, art, architecture, everything an illustrator ...

Information and inspiration are everywhere... history, art, architecture, everything an illustrator ...

Information and inspiration are everywhere... history, art, architecture, everything an illustrator ...

Information and inspiration are everywhere... history, art, architecture, everything an illustrator ...

Listen, you know this: If there's not a rebellious youth culture, there's no culture at all. It's ab...

Private communication systems have been around since the beginning of human culture.

Chinese food in Texas is the best Chinese food in the United States except Boston.

France, and the whole of Europe have a great culture and an amazing history. Most important thing th...

It seems more than a little patronizing for Westerners to lament the loss of the good old days when ...

Most women are all too familiar with men like Calvin Smith. Men whose sense of prerogative renders t...

Our culture is just a series of checks and balances. The whole idea that we're in a battle between t...

...Why are corporations so fleeting?...Instead of imitating the freewheeling city, these businesses ...

It's really cool to see glowsticks at the show, to see dance music culture infiltrating and becoming...

Food is not rational. Food is culture, habit, craving and identity.

Loyalty, respect for authority and some degree of sanctification create a more binding social order ...

The most powerful force ever known on this planet is human cooperation — a force for construction an...

The emphasis and value on ideas and original thinking is an innate part of British culture, and in m...

Deep in the culture of Apple is this sense and understanding of design, developing, and making. Form...

Stabilizing the euro is one thing, healing the culture that surrounds it is another. A world in whic...

There's never been a culture that wasn't obsessed with food. The sort of sad thing is that our obses...

Food is not just what we put in our mouths to fill up; it is culture and identity. Reason plays some...

...Food serves two parallel purposes: it nourishes and it helps you remember. Eating and storytellin...

She wanted more, more slang, more figures of speech, the bee's knees, the cats pajamas, horse of a d...

The library will endure; it is the universe. As for us, everything has not been written; we are not ...

in America we have people from all kinds of backgrounds, all in a cluster, together, and consequentl...

How to teach again what has been taught correctly it incorrectly 1000 thousand times, throughout the...

On the Bigotry of Culture:: it presented us with culture, with thought as something justified in its...

The sense of perspective that interaction with multiple cultures gives you I find to be extremely va...

It is necessary to have “watchers” at hand who will bear witness to the values of Tradition in ever ...

Romantic Orientalism was fascinated by the color and excitement of a powerful culture, and nearly al...

All of us somehow felt that the next battleground was going to be culture. We all felt somehow that ...

When I was 17, I worked in a mentoring program in Harlem designed to improve the community. That's w...

Asking men to cut away their “feminine” traits asks them to cut away half their humanity, just as as...

On reflection, looking at shows like this and considering my own experiences, what fascinated me was...

I can think of only two movies with women killers we’re meant to sympathize with, and both because t...

I was limited by stories that came before mine.We are so often limited by our own expectations of st...