Culture Quotes

Addiction is the dominant form of a culture that suffers from a superficial spectacle and celebrity-connectivity at its center. It's a form of spiritual emptiness.

Whites have traded their culture for power.

Lives with no more sense of spiritual meaning than that provided by shopping malls, ordinary television, and stagnant workplaces are barren lives indeed. Spirituality enriches culture.

Only the free and personal man is a good citizen (realist), and even with the lack of particular (scholarly, artistic, etc)culture, a tasteful judge (humanist).

Both total accommodation to the culture and total resistance to it are usually signs of intellectual sickness.

A thing we always talk about in today's culture is that nobody is an outsider - everybody's kind of a hipster on the inside.

I really chess-play culture shifts. I'm really good at understanding what worldwide cell-phone use means. That's what I do. I try to picture it three to four to five steps ahead.

Our culture now wonderfully, alchemically transforms images and history into artistic material. The possibilities seem endless and wide open.

Memory feeds a culture, nourishes hope and makes a human, human.

I always wanted my photographs to challenge the status quo, to contest the kinds of images that existed in popular culture.

I admire the abstract expressionists and pop artists so right now I'm referencing American '60s art and at the same time referencing Japanese manga culture.

My favorite sign here says, "I care about you." In a culture that trains people to avoid each other's gaze, to say, "Let them die," that is a deeply radical statement.

Inasmuch as it's a culture, cinema is the only thing at our disposal with which we can recognize ourselves in today's images. As an instrument it's inevitably inadequate, but it's the only one.

Ethics is a bit like culture: the less one has, the more one flaunts it.

If you let culture make tolerance the preeminent virtue, pretty soon you won't have anything else.

This is an issue that has an exceedingly high number of threads in it. It involves race, it involves culture, it involves crime, it involves justice.

Where race is involved, there is a pronounced and proven tendency in the United States for the majority culture to willfully misremember the history and turn it upside down.

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.

Even among the elite, in government circles, technological culture is somewhat deficient.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

As a culture moves from orality to writing to printing to televising, its ideas of truth move with it.

The starting point is always now. The end is up to you.

Our culture is something that has sustained us for thousands and thousands of years and will continue to do so in generations to come.

Maybe the culture is [particularly] shabby now. Maybe it's because I'm over sixty, that I can feel that about everything.

Being a male capable of grunting, sweating, and not asking for directions, but not yet having conqured a women...in our culture, that wasn't manhood, that was dorksville!

Good customers want good quality service. Great customers want it even more.

I believe that we have a responsibility to make culture available for all people, not only those who can afford to go to the movies.

I don't think actors are to blame for poor writing. The culture changes first, and the theater follows it. In the case of the movies, it's the same thing.

Business men who are busy the whole day and immediately go to bed after supper, snoring like cows, are not likely to contribute anything to culture.

There is no way you can think outside of your culture.

In the Church, when we talk about 'the world', we often create an us and them situation and end up planting the seeds of all that we feel wrong with the world in the soil of our own backyard.

From politics and business to music and food to culture, African-Americans have helped to shape our state's colourful past and its future.

Attention to detail can't be (and never is) added later. It's an entire development philosophy, methodology, and culture.

I claim to represent all the cultures, for my religion, whatever it may be called, demands the fulfillment of all the cultures.

Culture makes pain tolerable by interpreting it's necessity; only pain perceived as curable is intolerable.

When I go to China I see many artists whose work reflects on aspects of contemporary popular culture but obviously the history of Western art is not part of their own tradition.

Hip hop culture has done more for race relations in American than anything since Martin Luther King. And I really believe that.

Celebrity is more than a culture today; it is an industry, complete with fame factories.

Social Media has now become a part of our culture - you are either a part of it, or you ignore it.

When you're dealing with something sensitive, which is about culture, and its effect on a generation, you don't want any stones not to be turned over.

The people of Floridas 2nd Congressional District said, Steve, go up there and fight to change the culture in Washington. Ive taken their instructions very seriously.

There is no alternative to the peaceful coexistence of cultures.

We live in a culture where people are self-centered and careerist and everybody seems to think they have too much on their plate or they just don't have time for other people's pain.

I write pop songs. But I think it is sprinkled with a lot of counter-culture references. It ranged from rap to hip hop to trip hop, house, drum and bass, and experimental and improv and jazz.

No fools are so difficult to manage as those with some brains.