Culture Quotes

What example do you have of anything like the Pyramids outside of Africa? You have them in Mexico, but that can be traced to early African migration. So the African created mound culture.

It's quite widespread in rock culture, that mythology of the shooting star. I'd rather be the North star. As bob (Dylan) says, you can navigate by it.

On the aesthetic level, decolonized music presents itself as a direct antagonist to the traditional values promoted by the culture industry.

Great talent stands in line to join your team because the culture becomes the stuff of legend.

To me, it doesn't feel like it's just another rock record that somebody put out. It feels like we taped into the culture a little bit

Poetry resonates differently in each culture; it doesn't in America.

Music is always going to be only as sophisticated as the culture that consumes it.

Once the social and spiritual opening was created for women in the form of spiritualism, suddenly ambitious women who wanted to participate in the culture had a kind of a voice.

Change is no threat to culture.

I'm quite connected to Italy because of Italian Vogue shoots and the Pirelli calendar, so I have a love and appreciation for the culture.

Culture is a product of law. And laws create norms for society. This is why anyone who wants to change the culture of a country must try to change the norms of the country.

By a quirk of culture and history, it could be that China has arrived today where many other 'more developed countries' will arrive tomorrow.

You have to be respectful of pop culture, because people interpret it in the way they want.

Her name is Ago, and she belonged to the last culture to evolve in North America.

Freedom of speech does not mean freedom of offending culture, religion or traditions.

One is forced to speak not of what is held in common between the cultures, but what is held in common between the myths, and that in its simplest archetypal forms.

I have no interest in artists who are purely affirmative, who've made a commercialized fetish of the culture's stupidity.

I brought Yoko Ono to New York and gave her her first job there. I was editing a magazine called Film Culture.

Culture is perishing in overproduction, in an avalanche of words, in the madness of quantity.

The Pro-Life cause is the preeminent cause of our time, and this struggle between the gospel of life and the culture of death will determine the destiny of mankind.

Mathematical high culture collides with pop culture and all hell breaks loose! Harris takes us on a wild ride--never a dull moment!

Israel is a democratic state with an independent judiciary, a free press and a diverse population of many cultures, religions and creeds.

I'm very aware of how much movies, literature and art affect culture. They are a reflection of the world around us and they are also a means by which we engage with the world around us.

If you want to have a creative culture, you can't get it by reading books. You get it by example.

Knowing that "me" is inextricably linked to blackness, [I try to enjoy] the process of expanding beyond the expected boundaries set by existing culture, norms and media.

People don't think that bread is part of Asian culture or Asian food culture, but it's quite prevalent in Northern China, and you see it throughout Japan and as you go to Taiwan.

We live in a church culture that has a dangerous tendency to disconnect the grace of God from the glory of God.

When you're a foreigner, at the beginning you are far away from the culture. Then, little by little, you start to interact with people, have friends, have a life, and then you feel more comfortable.

The culture of modern Spain is something many people are still discovering.

Libraries and museums are the DNA of our culture.

As you get older, you realize just figuring out how to be nice to the people in your personal sphere is almost more challenging than trying to change the bigger culture.

Politeness is the chief sign of culture.

Our culture doesn't like being told what to do; that's happening in the Church.

At its best, cinema does retain a remarkable ability to speak to people of every age, from every background, and in ways that almost any other art form in popular culture struggles to compete with.

There never has been a culture since this world began in which a New Testament Christian could feel at home.

Is it advisable to spread out all the conveniences of culture before people to whom a few steps up a stair to a library is a sufficient deterrent from reading?

People need to understand, we can come together as a nation. We can create a culture of life. More and more young people today are embracing life because we know we are - we're better for it.

If you decide to move to another country and to live within its laws you don't express your disregard for the essence of the culture. It's a form of aggression.

Professional intellectuals are the voice of a culture and are, therefore, its leaders, its integrators and its bodyguards.

It is just not enough to strengthen the secret services for the fight against terrorism but it's also necessary to advance dialogue between cultures.

We're in need for culture change. We're going to change the way you know you look at food, sugar, sleep.

I've always found that the best travelers are the very same people who are intensely interested in the history and culture of their own home city.

High culture is the ability to hear the William Tell Overture and not think of the Lone Ranger.

There is no reason for amazement: surely one always knew that cultures decay, and life's end is death.

It is Christian culture that has created Western man and the Western way of life.

Resistance is always possible! But we must engage in resistance first of all by developing the idea of a technological culture.

Our biggest problem is that we have an entire culture shaped by a misunderstanding of the gospel. That so-called gospel is deconstructing the church

My experience of living with people of diverse religions and cultures taught me that one will never be at peace with the other if one is at war with oneself.

I grew up on Hip Hop, it's the music I love and it's the music I respect. I respect the culture...that's me.

If you do not value libraries then you do not value information or culture or wisdom. You are silencing the voices of the past and you are damaging the future.