Culture Quotes

One cannot expect positive results from an educational or political action program which fails to re...

Everyone over 50 in America feels like a refugee. In the Old America there were a lot of bad parents...

Whereas you have someone like Houdini, who works really, really hard to get really, really famous, a...

Our thoughts of literary renaissance should always center themselves on the removal of superstition,...

People are talking high of Thiruvalluvar. But in practice they do not respect his teachings. They ac...

We do not need to explain how the Aryans entered and settled in the Dravidian country (tira¯vit»a na...

The people had once created the city. The city now created the people, or, more exactly, the people ...

Ideas about a person's place in society, his role, lifestyle, and ego qualities will lose their hold...

The stakes in this game are not low. Our enterprise is no less than the introduction of an alternati...

In truth, the crossing from nature to culture and vice versa has always stood wide open. It leads ac...

I imagine hell like this: Italian punctuality, German humour and English wine.

Since we are destined to live out our lives in the prison of our minds, it is our duty to furnish it...

The future of architecture is culture.

The truth is, Jung has brought back one member of the old duality, unreason, with a new name; it is ...

I acquired an admiration for Japanese culture, art, and architecture, and learned of the existence o...

One of the truly bizarre things about our current cultural situation is that the leading figures of ...

The point of my work is to show that culture and education aren't simply hobbies or minor influences...

The point of my work is to show that culture and education aren't simply hobbies or minor influences...

Such competence is not necessarily acquired by means of the 'scholastic' labours in which some 'cine...

In fact, I believe that we need better sex education in our own culture, here in America, so that yo...

We have equality of men and women in western society, whereas in Islamic culture, women are inferior...

What is honored in a culture gets cultivated there.

The soul takes nothing with her to the next world but her education and her culture. At the beginnin...

It is essential that God created men and women to be one, as it is said in the first chapters of the...

Together with a culture of work, there must be a culture of leisure as gratification. To put it anot...

God makes Himself felt in the heart of each person. He also respects the culture of all people...God...

The lack of historical memory is a serious shortcoming in our society. A mentality that can only say...

The Republic of Venice used to boast that, in the space of three months, it could know all the event...

The fact is, man has never stayed by a single ideal. The mass enthusiasm when you were young gave wa...

Like all cities, Beirut has many layers, and I had been familiar with one or two. What I was introdu...

By acquiescing in an act that causes such suffering to a living creature, who among us is not dimini...

Mind being the seat of the soul, and literature being the expression of the mind, literature, it fol...

When we finally achieve the full right of participation in American life, what we make of it will de...

Culture with us ends in headache.

Your goodness must have some edge to it -- else it is none.

I think that one possible definition of our modern culture is that it is one in which nine-tenths of...

In our culture we have such respect for musical instruments, they are like part of God.

Hip-hop is storytelling.

In our culture we have such respect for musical instruments, they are like part of God.

In our culture we have such respect for musical instruments, they are like part of God.

In our culture we have such respect for musical instruments, they are like part of God.

You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.

Ours is a culture and a time immensely rich in trash as it is in treasures.

I think we are evolving rapidly into one world culture. It's certainly one world economy. With billi...

Today every city, town, or village is affected by it. We have entered the Neon Civilization and beco...

[T]here are in fact no masses, but only ways of seeing people as masses.

Any architectural project we do takes at least four or five years, so increasingly there is a discre...

A multicultural society does not reject the culture of the other but is prepared to listen, to see, ...

God exists, if only in the form of a meme with high survival value, or infective power, in the envir...

We humans are an extremely important manifestation of the replication bomb, because it is through us...

The Bible should be taught, but emphatically not as reality. It is fiction, myth, poetry, anything b...

George Tenet has been the director of central intelligence since 1997, time enough to have changed t...

I was persisting in reading my present environment in the light of my old one.

The world of most men is given to them by their culture..

If you've a notion of what man's heart is, wouldn't you say that maybe the whole effort of man on ea...

History shows that when the church accommodates culture, it weakens it.

You must make a counter-culture decision to focus on becoming more like Jesus. Otherwise, other forc...

Sick cultures show a complex of symptoms such as you have named...but a dying culture invariably exh...

Pardon me, but my father says that it is a lie that Americans have everything. You have no sheep, no...

...Religious observances, once so full of suffering and awe, have become accommodating and benign. T...

What has our culture lost in 1980 that the avant-garde had in 1890? Ebullience, idealism, confidence...

There's no such thing as civilization. The word just means the art of living in cities.

[Photography] allows me to accede to an infra-knowledge; it supplies me with a collection of partial...

It will no doubt be agreed that there are multitudes of these defiant, aggressive types in our cultu...

The cultural past is rigidly deterministic to the extent that the individual is unaware of it. An an...

It is important to note that the acquisition of wealth, as the accepted standard of succes, does not...

It seems to me that America is constantly reinventing what "America" means.

Quite a lot of our contemporary culture is actually shot through with a resentment of limits and the...

Incidentally, one of the most worrying problems in the impact of Western modernity on traditional cu...

One paid for one's knowledge with one's skin.

I had come down here, not to serve God as a craftsman should, but to show my people how great a craf...

Those who remember Washington's cold war culture in the 1980s will recall the shocked reactions to R...

By “the Permanent Things” [T. S. Eliot] meant those elements in the human condition that give us our...

People have always heard voices. Sometimes they're called shamans, sometimes they're called mad, and...

To understand our world, we must use a revolving globe and look at the earth from various vantage po...

I don't believe in the so-called Latino explosion when it comes to movies. Jennifer Lopez doesn't ha...

Sometimes we feel we straddle two cultures; at other times, that we fall between two stools.

We're right to say that a culture that can't tolerate free speech is... there are a wide range of po...

It is my hypothesis that the fundamental source of conflict in this new world will not be primarily ...

In the emerging world of ethnic conflict and civilizational clash, Western belief in the universalit...

When I was packing those, I caught myself taking all the important, profound, and indispensable titl...

I don't have to participate in another culture's ceremonies in order to respect that culture.

Women are the victims of this patriarchal culture, but they are also its carriers. Let us keep in mi...

It sounds like a fairy-tale, but not only that; this story of what man by his science and practical ...

If we turn to those restrictions that only apply to certain classes of society, we encounter a state...

Yet I loathe the thought of annihilating myself quite as much now as I ever did. I think with sadnes...

Advertising is a valuable economic factor because it is the cheapest way of selling goods, particula...

a single generation enamoured of foreign ways is almost enough in history to risk the whole continui...

Since, in our societies, a gendered division of labor still predominates which confers a male twist ...

Many of the gaps in my knowledge and understanding were simply limits of class and cultural backgrou...

I'd like to state that Spike Lee is not saying that African American culture is just for black peopl...

No one reads; if someone does read, he doesn't understand; if he understands, he immediately forgets...

War is the worst way of gathering knowledge about a foreign culture.

On the other hand, activist Christians who talk much about justice promote a notion of justice that ...

In fact, even Tillich's socialism was accommodationist because it continued the Constantinian strate...

That which makes the church "radical" and forever "new" is not that the church tends to lean toward ...

He did not consider public opinion to be accurate at long range.

Look at the kind of people who most object to the childishness and cheapness of celebrity culture. D...

I will defend the absolute value of Mozart over Miley Cyrus, of course I will, but we should be wary...

We've switched from a culture that was interested in manufacturing, economics, politics - trying to ...