Culture Quotes

I never could see anything wrong in sensationalism; and I am sure our society is suffering more from secrecy than from flamboyant revelations.

Music is always a reflection of what's going on in the hearts and minds of the culture.

Anger does not make history. Power does. And power may be supplemented by anger, but it derives from more fundamental realities; geography, demographics, technology, and culture.

When I go to Japan and do shows I play for 1,000 to 1,500 people. I like a lot about Japan. Their popular culture and mass commercialization appeals to me.

The truly civilized man is always skeptical and tolerant, in this field as in all others. His culture is based on 'I am not too sure'.

My father used to say that you could only access culture before cinema by learning to read and write, but that once cinema was invented, knowledge was available to anybody.

The cartoon is a metaphor really for the fact that it's almost impossible in our celebrity obsessed culture to move around genres and sort of change you ideas, change your face, you know?

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

Just as there's garbage that pollutes the Potomac river, there is garbage polluting our culture. We need an Environmental Protection Agency to clean it up.

Culture: the cry of men in face of their destiny.

It is my hope that as we commemorate Black History Month in the future, we will continue to celebrate the many achievements and rich culture of African-Americans.

To excavate is to open a book written in the language that the centuries have spoken into the earth.

..while I was happy enough to pray to any god, knowing that they were simply different faces created by men, of one indivisible truth.

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.

The philosopher cannot seriously put to himself questions that his civilization has not lived.

What other species now require of us is our attention. Otherwise, we are entering a narrative of disappearing intelligences.

Morals are built on religious faith. Virtue is built on morality and influences a culture.

I'm sure mothers are important across every culture, but particularly in Korean society, the role of the mother is of great importance.

Popular culture is a place where pity is called compassion, flattery is called love, propaganda is called knowledge, tension is called peace, gossip is called news, and auto-tune is called singing.

History has shown that one cannot legislate a culture of integrity. And yet, one of the paramount responsibilities and challenges of corporate leadership is to ensure such a culture.

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.

The only interesting ideas are heresies

In the world there is, parallel to the force of death and constraint, an enormous force of persuasion that is called culture.

We cannot live by power, and a culture that seeks to live by it becomes brutal and sterile. But we can die without it.

It is through the acceptance of a variety of aethetic and intellectual points of view that a culture is given breadth and density.

Our culture is in moral chaos. On TV we celebrate freaks instead of honest, decent people.

Religious faith is an important aspect of American culture and a fact of American political life.

Don't forget that you are the product of a culture that went stark raving mad about ten thousand years ago. Adjust your thinking accordingly.

As our language wanes and dies, the golden legends of the far-off centuries fade and pass away. No one sees their influence upon culture; no one sees their educational power.

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

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.

The critic roams through culture, looking for prey.

One out of three black men are in the criminal justice system in some form. Their despair is beginning to resonate through the entire culture; that is why suburban children want rap music.

Art is not entertainment. Art is not luxury goods. Art is culture. It is you and me.

It's been important to cultures throughout history with the court jester and the witch doctor and the shaman - all preach the same thing.

For many of our shareholders, our stock is all they own, and we're acutely aware of that. Our culture [of conservatism] runs pretty deep.

There's nothing in my head that's worth anything at all because it's the culture that put it there.

I'm proud of my Irish heritage and culture.

Businesses often forget about the culture, and ultimately, they suffer for it because you can't deliver good service from unhappy employees.

Some day, the public might actually revolt against the undemocratic system of seniority that allows Congress to keep the old ways of Washington ingrained into the culture of Congress.

If our language and culture are not passed on to immigrants, where will they learn to value integrity in government and the rule of law?

Art is not an anaemic cult but a dynamic culture.

I'm of Nigerian descent, from the Yoruba tribe. Names are very significant in that culture. It basically states your purpose in life.

The FBI. is a massive culture. It's been a culture that served America well, and it's been focused on prosecution. But what we need in terms of terrorism is prevention.

You can't have a discussion about bullying unless you also have a discussion against our culture's obsession with masculinity.

Racial oppression of black people in America has done what neither class oppression or sexual oppression, with all their perniciousness, has ever done: destroyed an entire people and their culture.

Must have been quite the culture shock, going there.” “Yes it was.” Idris doesn’t say that the real culture shock has been in coming back.

Unquestionably, our contemporary world of music is far richer, in a sense, than earlier periods, due to the historical and geographical extensions of culture to which I have referred.

On Ernst Lubitsch: He could do more with a closed door than other directors could do with an open fly.

The art consensus is not criteria, it is convenience.