Culture Quotes
Every band I’ve worked with also wants to be countercultural in the sense that they want to feel that they’ve gone somewhere that nobody else has been.
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.
We all have what might be called a culturally modified brain, and as cultures evolve, they continually lead to new changes in the brain.
Popular culture has become engorged, broadening and thickening until it's the only culture anyone notices.
The worlds of folklore and religion were so mingled in early twentieth venture German culture that even families who didn't go to church were often deeply Christian.
Tyranny is usually tempered with assassination, and Democracy must be tempered with culture. In the absence of this, it turns into a representation of collective folly.
I think culture's always been violent, and it is something we find very entertaining. Not only does it reflect our social reality, but it also reflects our psychic reality.
It's considered acceptable in our culture to approach perfect strangers, as often or not who may be in extremis, and evangelise. I don't see why that's considered a normal thing.
We are not relevant when we mirror secular culture. We are relevant when we are what they long to be.
Not a having and a resting, but a growing and a becoming, is the character of perfection as culture conceives it.
From the subtle to the extreme, our culture and our values are under unrelenting attack from the media.
Well, my husband is supportive of my work, like advocating for dialogue between cultures on YouTube.
And yet, in a culture like ours, which is given to material comforts, and addicted to forms of entertainment that offer immediate gratification, it is surprising that so much poetry is written.
Humanism and Divinity are as complementary to one another in theorder of culture, as are Nature and Grace in the order of being.
A remarkable thing about the Silicon Valley culture is that its status structure is so based on technical accomplishment and prowess.
The policies of the Democratic Party have always been in cultural consonance with the culture of the working class. And, somehow, they missed that.
The message of psychedelics is that culture can be re-engineered as a set of emotional and spiritual values rather than products. This is terrifying news.
Astronomy is not the apex of science or of invention. But it is a test of the cast of temperament and mind that underlies a culture.
I believe in accessibility. I believe in honesty and a culture that supports that. And you can't have that if you're not open to receiving feedback.
The idea that you make an experience that requires a conversation in a public place is training for the fact that culture is collective.
Say no to an ephemeral, superficial and throwaway culture, a culture that assumes that you are incapable of taking on responsibility and facing the great challenges of life!
Dancing was always part of my culture growing up in Barbados. When I shot my 1st video I worked really hard with my choreographer to perfect the routines.
As soon as you set yourself up in the position of transferring paint from one place to another, your whole culture invades you. It tells you all about the history of art.
The romantic artist, off alone in his storm-battered castle, fuming whole worlds from his brain, reflects his culture's most persistent myth, of God creating from a primal loneliness.
When there is a huge force pressing down on freedoms, sub-cultures with more creativity and power are likely to form.
There's this British elegance that we, at times, have really missed in the States. We've always been more of a sportswear culture.
The cultivation - even celebration - of victimhood by intellectuals, tort lawyers, politicians and the media is both cause and effect of today's culture of complaint.
I'm not a feminist. I hail men, I love men. I celebrate American male culture, and beer, and bars and muscle cars.
I like the idea of bringing cartoon characters to life... and although the Americans have already attempted this, their culture is not sufficiently humane to make it work.
Being a mother is complicated because its not just a paternal culture making demands on you; its those internal demands and expectations that women have and are self-generated.
The political currents that topped the global agenda in the late 20th century - revolutionary nationalism, feminism and ethnic struggle - place culture at their heart.
The influence of modern physics goes beyond technology. It extends to the realm of thought and culture where it has led to a deep revision in man's conception of the universe and his relation to it
All false art, all vain wisdom, lasts its time but finally destroys itself, and its highest culture is also the epoch of its decay.
I think in particularly with young kids who don't have a lot of positive influences, pop culture almost becomes a larger part of that self-discovery and how you define yourself.
The genius of culture is to create an ontological system so compelling that what is inside and outside of a person are viewed as of a piece, no seams and patches noticeable.
I think pot should be legalized, but I think the promotion of party culture is irresponsible.
Canada could have enjoyed: English government, French culture, and American know-how. Instead it ended up with: English know-how, French government, and American culture.