Culture Quotes
There is no reason for amazement: surely one always knew that cultures decay, and life's end is death.
Even among the elite, in government circles, technological culture is somewhat deficient.
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.
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.
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.
If you let culture make tolerance the preeminent virtue, pretty soon you won't have anything else.
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.
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.
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.
I always wanted my photographs to challenge the status quo, to contest the kinds of images that existed in popular culture.
Our culture now wonderfully, alchemically transforms images and history into artistic material. The possibilities seem endless and wide open.
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.
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.
Both total accommodation to the culture and total resistance to it are usually signs of intellectual sickness.
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).
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.
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.
Profaneness is a brutal vice. He who indulges in it is no gentleman, I care not what his stamp may be in society; I care not what clothes he wears, or what culture he boasts.
The only people that ever stand up and tell the truth are who? Intelligence officers. Because our culture is, never break faith with the truth. We'll tell you, you don't have to drag it out of us.
In the John Wayne movies, the Indians were savages that were trying to scalp you. That culture has really suffered because of the stereotype you see in those westerns.
In an unfamiliar culture, it is wise to offer no innovations, no suggestions, or lessons.
Being brought up in a culture is a matter of learning appropriate forms of feeling as much as particular ways of thinking.
Over recent years, urbanisation, globalisation and the destruction of local cultures has led to a rise in the prevalence of mental illness in the developing world.
Everyday that passes I am pulled from youth as how it has been defined by that culture into something else.
I can say, particularly as a mother of four small children. I can talk about the coarsening of our culture.
We don't evaluate what's right and wrong, we live in a society. We live in a culture. We have to live within the culture.
The best definition of the word culture (workplaces included) that I've heard is that it's how people behave when nobody is watching.
I believe the biggest advancement in DJ culture is that DJs are being vocal and are a voice to raise the consciousness of the masses towards making our planet awaken from the hypnosis of the matrix.
Environmental issues are on everyone's mind. It's part of our culture now and I can only applaud and laud anyone who is doing what they can and raising awareness.
Play with your physical workplace in a way that sends positive "body language" to employees and visitors.
In our culture, we grow up thinking that failure is a terrible thing, that it's a setback, or worse, the end. Often it turns out to be the beginning of something better.
Believers may come from different cultures, countries, or customs, but we serve one God who unites us all.
I think I was obsessed with the culture of riding. I got sick of having to date guys who rode motorcycles for me to be on them.
We have taken the latter course as a culture. So there is mass confusion today--even in the evangelical church--over whether the Bible is true and over how far we should go in obeying it.
In post modern culture, people not only have their own views, they think they are entitled to their own facts.
Business is the economic engine of our Western culture, and if it could be transformed to truly serve nature as well as ourselves, it could become essential to our rescue.
Well, marriage is a very important part of our culture and our society. If we want to have a hopeful and decent society, we ought to aim for the ideal.
Bars are meeting places and places to unwind. But at some point, what is culture unwinding from, and why can't they meet anywhere else?
Our culture thrives on black-and-white narratives, clearly defined emotions, easy endings, and so, this thrust into complexity exhausts.