Culture Quotes

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 ...

You can lead a whore to culture, but you can't make her think.

There has to be innate circuitry that does the learning, that creates the culture, that acquires the...

Northeastern and most coastal states will vote for the candidate who is more closely aligned with in...

I think that a failure of statistical thinking is the major intellectual shortcoming of our universi...

cademics and intellectuals are culture vultures. In a gathering of today’s elite, it is perfectly ac...

The essence of a culture of honor is that it does not sanction predatory or instrumental violence, b...

To me, literature is a calling, even a kind of salvation. It connects me with an enterprise that is ...

All aesthetic judgment is really cultural evaluation.

The only interesting ideas are heresies

All great art contains at its center contemplation, a dynamic contemplation.

[O]ne person's 'barbarian' is another person's 'just doing what everybody else is doing.

Every culture has its southerners -- people who work as little as they can, preferring to dance, dri...

But the culture-vultures and the intellectual snobs, and the self-appointed guardians of the Muses, ...

When you think about new-born babies being killed in our own lifetime,' he said, 'all the efforts of...

We are being made aware that the organization of society on the principle of private profit, as well...

But the Church cannot be, in any political sense, either conservative or liberal, or revolutionary. ...

The heathen could only be eliminated as a force if their culture was completely erased.

We have to create culture, don't watch TV, don't read magazines, don't even listen to NPR. Create yo...

What civilization is, is 6 billion people trying to make themselves happy by standing on each other'...

The reason we feel alienated is because the society is infantile, trivial, and stupid. So the cost o...

The imagination is the goal of history. I see culture as an effort to literally realize our collecti...

You don’t go on bended-knee to petition the official culture for your rights. You have to take them.

Every culture that’s ever existed has operated under the illusion that it understood 95% of reality ...

No culture on earth is as heavily narcotized as the industrial West in terms of being inured to the ...

Another anti-theoretical stratagem is to claim that in order to launch some fundamental critique of ...

He wasn't sure he liked everything that was happening, but a lot of it was "cultural," apparently, a...

No occupation is so delightful to me as the culture of the earth, and no culture comparable to that ...

We must be compelled to hold this doctrine to be false, and the old and new law called the Old and n...

No one chooses which culture to be born into or can be blamed for how that culture evolved in past c...

Culture is the arts elevated to a set of beliefs.

I inherited curiosity from my Dad.

He had to grow his own NCOs.

I grew up in New Mexico, and the older I get, I have less need for contemporary culture and big citi...

Our culture does not teach us this, but what happens in Vegas does not stay in Vegas. If you cheat i...

She missed -- without knowing what she missed-- paints and crayons

Really good films don't diminish anything, they don't close things off. On the contrary, they open u...

I wanted to escape Small Town U.S.A. To dismiss the boundaries, to explore. My life experience came ...

When your culture comes from watching TV every day, you're bombarded with images of things that seem...

When you make the effort to speak someone else’s language, even if it’s just basic phrases here and ...

I became a chameleon. My color didn't change, but I could change your perception of my color. If you...

On 'America's Top Model,' I've always told my girls to smile with their eyes. We call it 'smizing.' ...

To make them forget how bad human beings are, they were taught too insistently that bears are good. ...

Once upon a time there were mass media, and they were wicked, of course, and there was a guilty part...

Every book purchase made from Amazon is a vote for a culture without content and without contentment...

A psychopathy on Anarres was rational behavior on Urras.

Evil is ancient, unchanging, and with us always. The more postmodern the West becomes — affluent, le...

Custom is a shroud that conceals everything. Not without first encountering the uncustomary will we ...

Whatever may be their use in civilized societies, mirrors are essential to all violent and heroic ac...

She came from the most worthless of classes - the rich, with a smattering of culture.

The centuries-old history and culture of India, majestic architectural monuments and museums of Delh...

It's a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more money writing or talking about his ...

It is a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more money writing or talking about his...

It was not, then, race and culture calling out of the South in 1876; it was property and privilege, ...

Deception is the natural defence of the weak against the strong, and the South used it for many year...

I never learned to say shit before a lady. I don't believe in progress in quite the way you seem to....

If you could forget mortality... You could really believe that time is circular, and not linear and ...

America fears the unshaven legs, the unshaven men's cheeks, the aroma of perspiration, and the limp ...

What did you do for them, Bone? Teach them to read and write? Help them rebuild, give them Christ, h...

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.