Culture Quotes

During the 90s, I watched a lot of people getting fat and prosperous, and I thought, culture itself is the casualty of this.

I am a Liberal, yet I am a Liberal tempered by experience, reflexion, and renouncement, and I am, above all, a believer in culture.

The monolithic view that many Americans have of Pakistani culture is as inaccurate as the monolithic view that many Pakistanis have of American culture.

Progress stems from education, culture, freedom and equality. Without these fundamentals, mankind will flounder.

Popular culture is filled with girls.

When I traveled through Greece in the '90s, everything [Albert Hoxie] taught me came flooding back and I was able to appreciate the art and culture much more because of him.

Being cultured is the least expensive form of respectability.

The frenzy of the little-girl culture is something very unique, and I can only say that because I was one. The obsession - I can't really explain it. Everything is heightened to the maximum.

One of the things that I really value about Russian culture is that on the private level it allows for a huge amount of variety and individuality with regards to family structure.

When spiritualism dawned, suddenly women who wanted to engage in the civic and religious and political culture were becoming transmediums.

If there's a therapist who wants a writing project, I think there's a need for a book about how the culture affects the mental health of boys.

All culture developed as some wild, raw creature strived to live better and longer.

I think a woman who commits adultery, is not sympathetic in our culture - or in many cultures, let's face it.

I can't say I was much of a gamer growing up or that I am now, but I'm certainly part of that culture or it's part of, you know, the sort of time that I grew up in.

Breakthroughs, in art, in culture, in personality, come when tackling the unexpected.

Korean feminism has been swept away by popular culture. It became a sort of old-fashioned trend or a joke.

In a culture that gives men irresponsible power and women powerless responsibility, the advancement of civilization cannot be a serious goal.

With homogenized culture, even if you feel frustrated, you'd have to write a Taylor Swift song to get heard.

It seems Korean women are enjoying a passive and fragile status, intoxicated by appearance. Not only feminism, but any serious discourse ends up being swept away by popular culture in Korea.

My mother always tried to keep a little bit of British culture in our family. We'd drink tea all the time!

When once I got to America I fell in love with hippie culture, and I've always wanted to live in the country and grow organic vegetables.

My photography is often a sociological look at American culture and it's been very well published in the UK.

I'm a pop culture junkie. I'm a People magazine reader, an US Weekly subscriber; all of those celebrity magazines get my dollar.

It's very funny, American society: White culture can do all sorts of things and get away with it, but the minute a black person does it, it's interpreted in some way.

It could be the sort of declining grip of the American MTV-nation culture-the fact that MTV doesn't play so much music anymore.

The content or time-clothing of any medium or culture is the preceding medium or culture.

Universal deities ... never seem to smile. Not in any culture. What's the point of having omnipotence if you don't enjoy it?

We realized that the world of popular culture had been creating the perfect candidate for many years: the female champion of the universe.

Scribal culture and Gothic architecture were both concerned with light through, not light on.

There is no individualism in Eastern or oral cultures.

In our culture, most of us have been trained to ignore our own wants and to discount our needs.

Culture drives great results.

Tragically, one of the rarest commodities in our culture is empathy. People are hungry for empathy, They don't know how to ask for it.

Art is how a culture records its life, how it poses questions for the next generation and how it will be remembered.

Why are we, the most medicalized of societies, a culture in pain?

My hope is that my personal testimony can help in some way to not only advance the dialogue and approve Referendum 74, but also to help shape a culture of belonging in which ALL people are equal.

What Alpha offers, and what is attracting thousands of people, is permission, rare in secular culture, to discuss the big questions - life and death and their meaning.

Jazz, of course, is our heritage. Jazz is a culture, it's not a fad. It's up to us to see to it that it stays alive.

Great art transcends its culture and touches on that which is eternal.

One thing we forget about Hispanics is that they're family-unit-oriented as a culture. So it's not all wild Mexican gangs out there, as is rumored.

That whole world, the world of bodybuilding to me is fascinating. It's such a unique and interesting culture, and everything about it appeals to me.

Welfare culture is bad not just because, as in Europe, it's bankrupting the state, but because it enfeebles the citizenry, it erodes self-reliance and resourcefulness.

Jesse Jackson's living depends on the maintenance of an African-American victim culture

India has the right, if she only knew, of becoming the predominant partner by reason of her numbers, geographical position and culture inherited for ages.

For women in my family, in Korean culture, women are really valued in their youth, and then when they get older, it's like they almost become irrelevant.

I think there's real currency in pop culture.

Comedians and people in general have a cultural right to talk about their own culture and race.

Yes, but the thing is my influences are so rooted in afro-American culture especially that it's quite sad to not enjoy the same success because the influences are so strong from there.

I'm interested in youth culture and popular culture.

We know of no culture that has said, articulately, that there is no difference between men and women except in the way they contribute to the creation of the next generation.