Culture Quotes

I don't personally feel any association with a kind of culture related to state, or culture related to power, which I think is always disgusting.

[Cultural departments] don't care about culture. Maybe they're the furthest from the people who understand culture.

So-called Chinese art and culture is under control of the Party. They exist to serve the official agenda. I call it fake art and culture.

Modern Chinese culture is weak and lackluster.

China spends a lot of resources and effort on gaining soft power over culture. The hope is that it can be the last lifeline for the Party's survival. Obviously, the idea will fail.

The people who control culture in China have no culture.

When politics is too slow, change has to come from culture.

I think that nerds, if you want to call them that, have only gotten more hip and assimilated into the culture.

As a culture, we are not comfortable with mortality. We do not accept it the way other cultures do. We cling to youth, and we don't want to die. It's like, 'Well, too bad, we do.'

There is a fetishization of victimization in our culture. And I just am not interested in victimhood.

We live in a patriarchal culture. It's okay for women to be objectified but not for men.

In terms of perceptions of the culture, most people don't think about music. They're not concerned with it. They don't take their musical legacy seriously.

I can't pretend that I don't subscribe to Internet music culture in that I discover new music and old music simultaneously.

I don't believe in God and all that. But I am Jewish, and very proud to be so, very proud of the culture.

The first concern of any dictatorship is, consequently, to subjugate both labor and culture.

Culture in its higher forms is a delicate plant which depends on a complicated set of conditions and is wont to flourish only in a few places at any given time.

We seem to live a culture that doesn't want blemishes. The vision of most beautiful models... airbrushed in order to be seen as perfect, infects our notion of how literature should be written.

I want to make movies that people see. I really think that movies are the most popular form of story telling ever and have such a huge impact on culture when they do.

Really the moment I decided I wanted to do art seriously, I left art school. I wanted to be with people who were interested in the same things I was: popular culture.

Every culture loves scatological humour. That's always a favourite.

Back then it was a different culture. It was very loose. I was young. I was stupid.

With my family background - my parents were both activists - writing about culture and politics came naturally.

I realize that I've had a very idyllic vision of what spirituality looks like. Honestly, most of Western culture has an idyllic and simplified idea of what enlightenment entails.

I just wanted to make movies, but I never though about, "How am I being perceived because of my culture or my skin?"

A culture is in its finest flower before it begins to analyze itself.

Hip-hop was the culture that I grew up with; I am part of this culture.

I think that any story that intends on being culturally authentic and true to life experiences will be a great story. Even if that culture isn't a hip-hop-centric one.

I do think that hip-hop has a relationship with comic book culture, and Kung Fu movies too, for that matter.

When you are creating something artistically and are speaking to or representing a culture that you know truthfully, you are doing a good job.

I love to hang out with boys - I've got brothers - but I'm a girl's girl, in all the ways you can be girlie. Nails and chats and gossip magazines and reality TV and pop culture.

I feel more influenced in my own work by dreams than I do by other writers' works in a way. Or by popular culture, movies - what else is there to write about than love and loss?

In many cultures, women are sometimes literally kept from learning to read or from going to school.

When women finally get liberated, they'll do the same that men do - dog eat dog - that's what our culture is.

I'm filled with despair. We live in a pathological culture filled with rage and bitterness and greed. The hate-mongering and racism is reaching a frightening pitch.

I'm really interested in culture because it is such a powerful human force, particularly in America where we think it's all about the individual.

The key thing that went wrong was that a culture was allowed to develop where the relationship between what people did and what they got went way out of alignment, especially at the top end.

Classical music is a special taste like Greek language or pre-Columbian archeology, not a common culture of reciprocal communication and psychological shorthand.

The distinction between the world of commerce and that of "culture" quickly became the distinction between infrastructure and superstructure, with the former clearly determining the latter.

Kant does represents a distinctively modern view of the human condition in contrast to that of ancient high culture, found in ancient Greek ethics and also in ancient Chinese ethics.

On many days, harder than the act of making the art itself is the act of sharing it and living in a culture that you know is built to tear you down.

I think there's this great disconnect between youth culture and politics, which is a product of how our capitalist system works.

A nutritious substance supplied by a bountiful Providence for the fattening of the poor.

Foreign culture is as necessary to the spirit of a nation as is foreign commerce to its industries.

I believe that everyone deserves love, and sometimes looking outside your own culture is a good way to find it.

Half of Wisconsinites are considered alcoholics. It's part of the culture of Wisconsin... if self-deprecation is their survival instinct, alcohol is their coping mechanism.

I think New York is a really wonderful place to raise a child. There's so much available, and so much diversity and culture, lots of things to see and do. My whole family is here.

A whole generation of writers dined out on the dialectic between original cultures and their culture by "progress.

Our art culture makes no attempt to search the past for precedents, but transforms the entire past into a sequence of provisional responses to a problem that remains intact.

We have been very conditioned by the cultures that we come from and are usually very identified with the particular gender that we happen to be a member of.

I don't see why, if you look at how the Australian culture and psyche is, that we can't be amongst the most generous from the grassroots up, nations in the world.