Culture Quotes

Culture and politics were inseparable [in the Sixties], which gave a soundtrack to political awareness and activism.

Placing on writers the responsibility to represent a culture is an onerous burden.

It is no longer a question of controlling a military-industrial complex, but rather, of keeping the United States from becoming a totally military culture.

All peoples enjoy freedom, and freedom for the development of their culture... There is no Jewish problem in the Soviet Union at all... I have many friends who are Jews.

We culture. Rap is the new rock 'n roll. We the rockstars. It's been like that for a minute, Hedi Slimane!

Our culture is superior. Our culture is superior because our religion is Christianity and that is the truth that makes men free.

The kingdom of music is not the kingdom of this world; it will accept those whom breeding and intellect and culture have alike rejected.

I don't see a film industry in Germany. They have a great TV culture, but how many German films are really exciting?

I think it's very important for us to start to build a culture of resistance, because what we're doing isn't working, clearly.

Eight Hours For What We Will is a major contribution to modern American working-class history and to the history of a changing American popular and mass culture.

The foundation of culture, as of character, is at last the moral sentiment.

I don't know why it is that we need to denigrate, to knock down. It's so sick.

Learning is nothing without cultivated manners, but when the two are combined in a woman, you have one of the most exquisite products of civilization.

Yehudi Menuhin was a citizen of the world in the fullest sense - one whose vision and culture gave him a deep empathy with fellow human beings of every creed and color.

Get the culture right, and everything else just falls into place.

The fact is, that civilization requires slaves. Unless there are slaves to do the ugly, horrible, uninteresting work, culture and contemplation become almost impossible.

I'm convinced that in a healthy society, artistic norms should be constantly under question which is not of course, to deny the need for continuity.

And Cape Town is not what it used to be. Foreigners have left their imprint on our culture.

A culture that denies death inevitably becomes shallow and superficial, concerned only with the external form of things. When death is denied, life loses its depth.

I believe in monogamy if that's what a couple decides upon together, but it all depends on the personal history and culture of the two involved.

Shaft was a pop culture figure along t he lines of, I guess, Dirty Harry - except that he wasn't as much of a racist. So yeah, I was always a fan.

This will arguably be the third great revolution of America, if we can prove that we literally can live without having a dominant European culture.

The teacher of history's work should be, ideally, not simply a description of past cultures, but a performance of the culture in which we live and are increasingly taking our being.

Not all intelligence can be artificial now, so if we make a mistake, the consequences are no longer simply located within an institution or a national culture.

For individuals, character is destiny. For organizations, culture is destiny.

I see my work plagiarized in gardening programmes and decorating programmes and car adverts, and I suppose I have to accept that's just the way art gets assimilated into culture.

Money alone isn't enough to bring happiness... happiness is when you're actually truly ok with losing everything you have.

I'm the Latin artist who has been the most successful in history at representing the Latin culture. The stylings of my words are immodest, but it's the truth.

Our culture's zeal for longevity reveals our incredible collective fear of death.

Hendrix is one of the most revolutionary figures in today's pop culture, musically and sociologically.

Ask yourself: would you be comfortable printing everything your employees, customers & partners have to say about your culture?

Our democracy should reflect our culture and our habits and our customs and our reality at the same time.

I have two sons in America, and all they care about in Chinese culture is Jackie Chan and Jet Li.

Black culture is something I don't relate to much at all.

I identify with my culture, but I am happy to be living on a tolerant, intellectual island where I can deal with Dostoyevsky and Sartre, both great influences for me.

Many people in the western world are spoiled by the conveniences of our culture.

Wealth is power, and power is the only thing about which contemporary culture cares.

Maybe silence is something we're uncomfortable with as a culture, I don't know.

Of course there's no such thing as a totally objective person, except Almighty God, if she exists.

Journalism combines adventure with culture.

Throughout history, it took centuries for the habits of one culture to materially affect another. Now, that which becomes popular in one country can sweep through others within months.

If we desire peace, we must prepare for peace. The most important thing is to build a culture of peace.

Music and culture are intrinsically improvisational, existential.

When one looks back over human existence however, it is very evident that all culture has developed through an initial resistance against adaptation to the reality in which man finds himself.

And it's not only films, I'm pretty unaware of anything that's going on in popular culture right now.

There was not an awareness of pop culture in the household. There was a lot of respect for working hard, and for intellectual and professional achievement.

I mention my age because I find people in this country - women, not men, of course - women are so troubled by their age. There's a culture of youth, and it's a phony culture.

Istanbul is a vast place. There are very conservative neighbourhoods, there are places that are upper class, Westernised, consuming Western culture.

The reason to get in touch with the culture is not to adopt it but to engage it for the same reasons a missionary does... to gain a hearing for the gospel.

Very simply, the culture of another people does not have to be accepted when it is subhuman!