Culture Quotes
To change our laws and culture, the green movement must attract and include the majority of all people, not just the majority of affluent people.
In trying to become 'objective,' Western culture made 'objects' of things and people when it distanced itself from them, thereby losing 'touch' with them.
Look, when I started out, mainstream culture was Sinatra, Perry Como, Andy Williams, Sound of Music. There was no fitting into it then and of course, there's no fitting into it now.
I think the health of our civilization, the depth of our awareness about the underpinnings of our culture, and our concern for the future, can all be tested by how well we support our libraries.
Under neoliberalism, culture appears to have largely abandoned its role as a site of critique.
We live in a culture that discourages empathy. A culture that too often tells us our principle goal in life is to be rich, thin, young, famous, safe, and entertained.
There's a general culture in this country to cut all the trees. It makes me so angry because everyone is cutting and no one is planting.
Wherever I go, I bring the culture with me, so that they can understand that it's attainable. I didn't do it any other way than through hip-hop.
We are growing from a cheerful small town where everyone waves off their front porch to the subway of New York City where everyone rushes by. How do you preserve the culture that has worked so well?
I’m not just living in the tradition and culture and the past, I also want to be connected to the future. The Apple Watch connects me to the future. My watch connects me to history, to eternity.
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.
Through some combination of culture and biology, our minds are intuitively receptive to religion.
Permitting and protecting even the smallest acts of abuse by a tiny fraction of our officers leads to a culture where extreme acts of abuse are more likely.
We've had American TV shows in Britain for years and that hasn't affected our culture at all.
When you talk about rap you have to understand that rap is part of the Hip-Hop culture.
Innovate, don't imitate. Set out to create a culture that is right for your organization, then work at making it happen.
Hip-hop and being a pro athlete go hand in hand. When they come together, it's a win, not just for your business brand but also for culture.
Creativity is the ability to find new solutions to a problem or new modes of expression; thus it brings into existence something new to the individual and to the culture.
We have not invaded anyone. We have not conquered anyone. We have not grabbed their land, their culture, their history and tried to enforce our way of life on them.
How can a rational being be ennobled by any thing that is not obtained by its own exertions?
Aging in women is 'unbeautiful' since women grow more powerful with time, and since the links between generations of women must always be broken.
Violence against women in all its forms is a human rights violation. It's not something that any culture, religion or tradition propagates.
I am not interested in living in a city where there isn't a production by Samuel Beckett running.
Every book purchase made from Amazon is a vote for a culture without content and without contentment.
The real 1960s began on the afternoon of November 22, 1963. It came to seem that Kennedy's murder opened some malign trap door in American culture, and the wild bats flapped out.
You cannot transpose the U.S. system on Turkey, and the Turkish system on France etc. You have to understand the people and their culture. That's leadership.
A culture without property, or in which creators can't get paid, is anarchy, not freedom.
If you really want to change a culture to empower women improve basic hygiene and health care and fight high rates of infant mortality the answer is to educate girls.
I think our culture is sick and tired of fluffy nonsense and people want something more sincere and heartfelt.
Far too many young people today have no spiritual roots. The've been deprived of values by an agnostic, contemporary culture.
The idea of the sacred is quite simply one of the most conservative notions in any culture, because it seeks to turn other ideas - uncertainty, progress, change - into crimes.
I like the type of culture that the Internet allows to happen. And, of course, for some bizarre reason, that is cats!
Aquinas brought an Aristotelian view of reason back into European culture, and lighted the way toward the Renaissance.
The culture at Valve is pretty much crowdsourced. The handbook is a wiki. One of the first things we say to new hires is, 'You have to change something in the handbook.'
There are a lot of reasons to be hated in pop culture, and being a straight white male is one of them. In fact, I almost hate me
History and geology show what an eyeblink it's been since our current, comfortable culture came about. And yet that culture is using up absolutely everything at a ferocious rate.
America is not just a democracy, it represents a certain culture of competitive mobility and personality aspirations, politics is not merely a clash of interests, but a clash of dreams.
A culture is not the anonymous product of undifferentiate d masses, but the sum of the intellectual achievements of individual men.
Television is completely another medium. For me, Lady Gaga and HBO are bringing us to mass culture.