Culture Quotations | Page 2

It's obvious that the rest of the world loves high African culture - African culture, period.

Everything is arranged so that it be this way, this is what is called culture.

I love pop culture. I love to be inside of it, and step outside and look back in.

The UK is not going to leave the European Union. Of course not. We are inextricably wound up with Europe. In terms of culture, history and geography, we are a European nation.

People who demand neutrality in any situation are usually not neutral but in favor of the status quo.

Culture is not made up but something that evolves which is human.

Science as an intellectual exercise enriches our culture, and is in itself ennobling.

One effect of an individualistic culture that's poor at instilling mutual respect is that people jump more quickly to anger or violence.

A free culture has been our past, but it will only be our future if we change the path we are on right now.

Romantic Orientalism was fascinated by the color and excitement of a powerful culture, and nearly always approached its subject with love.

Culture is something that we all share, and we are all the poorer for anyone excluded from it.

When I was writing 'The Abstinence Teacher,' I really tried to immerse myself in contemporary American evangelical culture.

I don't really know much about pirates, or pirate culture. I'd be a contrarian pirate.

Dying people in pre-industrial cultures typically died in the context of an extended family, clan, or tribe.

Popular culture is simply a reflection of what the majority seems to want.

The tango is really a combination of many cultures, though it eventually became the national music of Argentina.

I didn't know anything about Opus Die except from pop culture, like Dan Brown novels, which I knew wasn't really knowing anything about Opus Die.

The role of culture is that it's the form through which we as a society reflect on who we are, where we've been, where we hope to be.

A team may have some great players, but typically, the team that works best together does the best. I look at running Broadcom in the same way. We have a culture where people have different skill sets, but they are happy to leverage their skills to help others and to help the company.

At the beginning of my career as a writer, I felt I knew nothing of Chinese culture. I was writing about emotional confusion with my mother related to our different beliefs. Hers was based in family history, which I didn't know anything about. I always felt hesitant in talking about Chinese culture and American culture.

Culture is how biology responds and makes its living conditions better.

For the first time, the weird and the stupid and the coarse are becoming our cultural norms, even our cultural ideal.

I am so spoiled. I cannot watch a show where it gets interrupted for ads. I have to TiVo it and skip through the ads, because the culture of advertising is so false and phony that I just... ugh, you know?

It is impossible to fuse totally with a culture for which you feel a measure of antagonism.

Because the stuff that they feed kids now, they'll have a bunch of idiots in the next millennium as far as art and culture is concerned.

Possession and exorcism is something that's in every religion and every culture. It's a real primal fear: Is the body a vessel for our spirits? What happens if something else takes over it? Where does the spirit go?

It's been interesting to see how similar audiences in the East and West are, actually, and how it makes you realize that when politicians emphasize the differences between our cultures, it's usually because it benefits them more so than us.

It's a really skewed part of our culture that happiness is the end-all be-all. The people that force themselves to be happy all the time often end up being the most broken.

I strongly believe that you can't win in the marketplace unless you win first in the workplace. If you don't have a winning culture inside, it's hard to compete in the very tough world outside.

I'm not sure many writers are trying to reconcile all the things that are separated in our culture - body and mind, urban and pastoral, lyricism and hardboiled, men and women, joy and grief. I tried to do quite a lot, but I wanted to create a serious work of literature.

We give the podium to a lot of people who shouldn't have the podium. The message that's delivered the loudest and in the most entertaining way is the one that we're going to put on because that's what we want. We want ratings more than we want to deliver information. That's just where the culture's gotten.

The central conservative truth is that it is culture, not politics, that determines the success of a society. The central liberal truth is that politics can change a culture and save it from itself.

'Hollywood Don't Surf!' is really about how Hollywood's superficial view of surfing culture has influenced popular culture and the story of what happened when real surfers tried to change that.

It's an honor to represent a Latin culture.

Of the many forms of false culture, a premature converse with abstractions is perhaps the most likely to prove fatal to the growth of a masculine vigour of intellect.

The standardization of world culture, with local popular or traditional forms driven out or dumbed down to make way for American television, American music, food, clothes and films, has been seen by many as the very heart of globalization.

Labor is the source of all wealth and all culture.

In Eastern culture, people see ghosts, people talk about ghosts... it's just accepted. And in Western culture it's just not.

In most cultures, you can have a kid at 18 and it's not a big thing. It's not like, 'Oh, you've got to get a different haircut and move to the suburbs and act, like, 35.'

I don't think we spend enough time in reflection and introspection. We don't know who we are as individuals in this culture any more.

So I've never found there was any particular separation between the two cultures at all, musically speaking.

The beginnings of the hacker culture as we know it today can be conveniently dated to 1961, the year MIT acquired the first PDP-1.

Soft addictions are an alluring, seductive aspect of our culture - they are easy to attain and socially acceptable, they are even encouraged in many cases. Yet they are lethal to the spirit.

There's a lot about New York that is unique, and there's always a culture and a subculture going on everywhere.

The negative side to globalization is that it wipes out entire economic systems and in doing so wipes out the accompanying culture

As a culture I see us as presently deprived of subtleties. The music is loud, the anger is elevated, sex seems lacking in sweetness and privacy.

I don't want to live in a culture of despair. I'd like to live in a culture of hope.

Just as the slave master required the slaves to imitate the image he had of them, so women, who live in a relatively powerless position, politically and economically, feel obliged by a kind of implicit force to live up to culture's image of what is female.

Many cultures have independently developed a belief system in reincarnation that includes return of the unit of consciousness to another physical lifetime on Earth.

When you look at Japanese traditional architecture, you have to look at Japanese culture and its relationship with nature. You can actually live in a harmonious, close contact with nature - this very unique to Japan.

So we have to be careful because if you don't protect your culture you won't have it for very long.

We live in a youth-obsessed, aesthetically obsessed culture. That is no more evident than in the film industry.

Listen: our culture is saturated with irony whether we know it or not.

Never tire yourself more than necessary, even if you have to found a culture on the fatigue of your bones.

I worked with Ismail Merchant on 'The Mystic Masseur,' I did 'Sakina's Restaurant,' I've done plays, I've been on Broadway, I've done movies, I've done TV... but nothing has had the pop culture penetrative impact as 'The Daily Show' has. It's the nature of the beast.

Any good teacher knows how important it is to connect with students and understand our culture.

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

You have to stay updated on trends, social things and pop culture, you need to stay with the times and keep evolving.

I read the Steve Jobs book, and that kind of changed everything. I've been, like, an Apple geek my whole life and have always seen him as a hero. But reading the book, and learning about how he built the company, and maintaining that corporate culture and all that, I think that influenced me a lot.

There's never been a culture without poetry in the history of the world.

It doesn't matter what tradition you come from, what religion you have or don't, what culture you were brought up in or what God you ascribe to: Faith is worthwhile as it helps us to be kinder, more generous, more loving and forgiving people.

It is a sure sign that a culture has reached a dead end when it is no longer intrigued by its myths.

Although we love the idea of choice - our culture almost worships it - we seek refuge in the familiar and the comfortable.

The bourgeoisie and the petty bourgeoisie have armed themselves against the rising proletariat with, among other things, culture. It's an old ploy of the bourgeoisie. They keep a standing art to defend their collapsing culture.

Our laws are a reflection of our culture. Our culture does not condone the torture of innocent and defenseless creatures. And we as a society believe all God's creatures should be treated humanely.

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

Dream study impacts culture. We are put in touch with the inner poet who dreams. We hear our inner, subjective response to the outer world. That helps spiritualize our lives.

I feel like there's a hunger in the culture now for the live experience maybe as a counterpoint to the more sort of synthetic lives that we've been living.

A culture without property, or in which creators can't get paid, is anarchy, not freedom.

One of the surest signs of the Philistine is his reverence for the superior tastes of those who put him down.

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

Historians will have to face the fact that natural selection determined the evolution of cultures in the same manner as it did that of species.

I grew up in a culture in which it was a sin for a woman to speak out.

I think that one possible definition of our modern culture is that it is one in which nine- tenths of our intellectuals can't read any poetry

Being Indian is not blood as much as it is culture.

We now have a whole culture based on the assumption that people know nothing and so anything can be said to them.

The Bible was written in several languages, embraces many literary forms, and reflects cultures very different from our own. These are important considerations for properly understanding the Bible in its context.

What is right? Simply put, it is any assignment in which the photographer has a significant spiritual stake...spiritually driven work constitutes the core of a photographer's contribution to culture.

One thing that is not to be underestimated is American cultures influence on the rest of the world.

What is acceptable in our culture, I think, is really detrimental. I think we ought to have a little more ownership over the kind of material and the content that we put in front of people, especially young people.

Some of the substance of English words, I just don't understand at all because the culture's so strange to me

When I started graduate school I was interested in the culture of the Civil Rights Movement.

You know, when it was done originally, they always had to fight to keep it going at the end of each season. Now, The Odd Couple has become part of our language and culture.

Because of the Chinese culture of obedience, you don't ask questions... You follow and obey.

I'm very empathic to the construction of masculinity within our culture and how we build these identities up.

The BBC's television, radio and online services remain an important part of British culture and the fact the BBC continues to thrive amongst audiences at home and abroad is testament to a professional and dedicated management team who are committed to providing a quality public service.

It is a culture voice, but it is a very American culture voice, and I am very used to English culture voice. So I had to work like hell to flatten those R's.

When 'Buffy the Vampire Slayer' premiered on the WB Network in 1996, American culture was in trouble. Americans were bowling alone, pursuing individual interests to the detriment of the communal good. Business leaders were celebrating creativity and neglecting discipline. Nike's 'Just do it' ads were teaching young people to break the rules.

Groupon as a company - it's built into the business model - is about surprise. A new deal that surprises you every day. We've carried that over to our brand, in the writing and the marketing that we do, and in the internal corporate culture.

I really like the pop culture materials of everyday life, but used in some way that elevates them to something you notice and care about.

It's a very generous culture, American culture. I know you can't generalize 300 million people, but everyone I've met here has been so lovely to me.

Writing is about culture and should be about everything. That's what makes it what it is.

Well there is a lot of work here for younger and older musicians now. Our Ministry of Culture has now really embarked on changing things for artists, and it is getting much better. We just have to organize ourselves as artists, and then things will be better.

There are no globalized, youth-led, grassroots social movements advocating for democratic culture across Muslim-majority societies. There is no equivalent of Al-Qaeda without the terrorism.

The biggest determinant in our lives is culture, where we are born, what the environment looks like. But the second biggest determinant is probably governance, good governance or a certain kind of governance makes a huge difference in our lives.

The moment you give up your principles, and your values, you are dead, your culture is dead, your civilization is dead. Period.

I began demonstrating against serious culture. In hindsight, the actual course of events has been very humiliating for me, because no one picked up on the intellectual critique I made.

I'm passionate and I travel the world not just as a tourist but to understand cultures... I've lived with Masai tribe... I travel the world and bring it back in the form of a research book that would become the starting point for the collection.

My photography is often a sociological look at American culture, and it's been very well published in the U.K.

Afghan society is very complex, and Afghanistan has a very complex culture. Part of the reason it has remained unknown is because of this complexity.