Culture Quotes

Misunderstanding a culture's symbols is a common root of predujice.

Suppose we were able to share meanings freely without a compulsive urge to impose our view or confor...

Cultural contamination that is directed outward is always seen as ‘enlightenment.

(A middle-class child's) parents didn't just give him money. They passed down habits, knowledge, and...

There are heroes and schmucks in all worlds. The most important thing is whether you are willing to ...

Fixate on whole cultures, not specific pieces of poverty. No specific intervention is going to turn ...

What's interesting about the shift from an industrial age to a technological age is that we keep inv...

My first plays were amazingly bad, but I had a teacher who thought I had promise, and he kept workin...

I am a passionate traveler, and from the time I was a child, travel formed me as much as my formal e...

The uniqueness of every soul is not a theme that our current culture, obsessed with group identities...

I'm a culture vulture, and I just want to experience it all.

New Age values are conscious evolution, a non-sectarian society, a non-military culture, global shar...

The '60s redefined narcissism as idealism.

The Left is doing to America what it has done to almost everything it has deeply influenced - the ar...

There’s a larger point to be made here than my own obtuseness, which is the fragility, beauty, and a...

To reverse the effects of civilization would destroy the dreams of a lot of people. There's no way a...

My mother never made me do anything for my brothers, like serve them. I think that's an important le...

It's no accident that my first novel was called Americana. This was a private declaration of indepen...

I used to think it was possible for an artist to alter the inner life of the culture. Now bomb-maker...

A white-boy attitude is 'I must exclude, denigrate, and leave behind.' They don't see it or think ab...

We are all of us, to some degree or another, brainwashed by the society we live in. We are able to s...

[N]othing about a book is so unmistakable and so irreplaceable as the stamp of the cultured mind. I ...

When future archaeologists dig up the remains of California, they're going to find all of those gyms...

To have a healthy culture, you have to have stable health care financing and stable arts financing a...

While her lips talked culture, her heart was planning to invite him to tea

If there is a religious agency in our lives, it has to appear in the manner of our times. Not from o...

A matter neither sensual nor sensational is ignored by the art of today.

Culture had worked in her own case, but during the last few weeks she had doubted whether it humaniz...

Medora Manson, in her prosperous days, inaugurated a "literary salon"; but it had soon died out owin...

If ever we should find ourselves disposed not to admire those writers or artists, Livy and Virgil fo...

To make the distinction unmistakably clear: Civilization is the vital force in human history; cultur...

Our culture runs on coffee and gasoline, the first often tasting like the second.

I am not interested in living in a city where there isn't a production by Samuel Beckett running.

No one today is purely one thing. Labels like Indian, or woman, or Muslim, or American are not more ...

Without memory, there is no culture. Without memory, there would be no civilization, no society, no ...

writers like Jack Kerouac (who called himself an "urban Thoreau") set forth to redefine and rediscov...

The struggle of democratic secularism, religious tolerance, individual freedom and feminism against ...

The more hideous the mental contortions, the greater the delight and bravos of the mass.

The other dangerous delusion from which those who are wilfully or otherwise blind to realities suffe...

Working in Britain, particularly in the public services, they should be prepared to accept the terms...

The Labour party on the whole has not been a very effective opposition since the election, partly be...

Modernism in Vienna brought together science and culture in a new way to create an Age of Insight th...

If man were infinitely malleable, there would have been nor revolutions; there would have been no ch...

Both the mentally healthy and the neurotic are driven by the need to find an answer [to the problem ...

If a writer of prose knows enough about what he is writing about he may omit things that he knows an...

I just think music is so intrinsically linked with images in the culture that we live in that you'll...

Culture cannot be separated from politics. The arts, philosophy and metaphysics, religion and the sc...

In the Mexican culture, we never miss a baptism, a birthday, a baby shower, a wedding shower, a wedd...

When the waterholes were dry, people sought to drink at the mirage.

Civilization is in fact the longest story of all. Civilization can persist through a series of econo...

Chinese combatants, men and women, inheritors of a millennial culture, are people of uncommon intell...

...quality of life lies in knowledge, in culture. Values are what constitute true quality of life, t...

The creative process is a cocktail of instinct, skill, culture and a highly creative feverishness. I...

The creative process is a cocktail of instinct, skill, culture and a highly creative feverishness. I...

The creative process is a cocktail of instinct, skill, culture and a highly creative feverishness. I...

The creative process is a cocktail of instinct, skill, culture and a highly creative feverishness. I...

Two ideas are opposed — not concepts or abstractions, but Ideas which were in the blood of men befor...

Noble life demands a noble architecture for noble uses of noble men. Lack of culture means what it h...

I was once asked to pick a couple of records for an interview I was doing on Radio 2. I picked one b...

I was once asked to pick a couple of records for an interview I was doing on Radio 2. I picked one b...

Popular culture bombards us with examples of animals being humanized for all sorts of purposes, rang...

Love is only surpassing sweet when it is directed toward a mortal object, and the secret of this ult...

And that discovery would betray the closely guarded secret of modern culture to the laughter of the ...

The crowd of influences streaming on the young soul is so great, the clods of barbarism and violence...

At the centre of all these noble races we cannot fail to see the blond beast of prey, the magnificen...

If you invest all your energy in economics, world commerce, parliamentarianism, military engagements...

Nations are as equal as so many madmen or drunkards.

Family entertainment is really very necessary in our culture. Look how profitable they are. It's alm...

In the 40,000 year time scale we're all the same people. We're all equally primitive, give or take t...

Culture is more often a source of conflict than of synergy. Cultural differences are a nuisance at b...

...in the unique case of a country’s geographic position, it is difficult to consider this factor as...

Never underestimate the power of being popular in pop culture. You have to be able to do something. ...

Within our culture, every school has a swimming pool. We lived on the coast. People swam in the surf...

Building a naval power takes generations, not so much to develop the necessary technology as to pass...

You know, who tells the stories of a culture really governs human behaviour. It used to be the paren...

It's an old ploy of the bourgeoisie. They keep a standing 'art' to defend their collapsing culture.

Before I became a film major, I was very heavily into social science, I had done a lot of sociology,...

It is only when you meet someone of a different culture from yourself that you begin to realise what...

The fact that has got to be faced is that to abolish class-distinctions means abolishing a part of y...

The best men in all ages keep classic traditions alive.

When a language dies, a possible world dies with it.

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.