Culture Quotes

Keep Darwinian thinking out of cosmology, out of psychology, out of human culture, out of ethics, politics, and religion!

Natural selection is not gene centrist and nor is biology all about genes; our comprehending minds are a result of our fast evolving culture.

Human reactions to robots varies by culture and changes over time. In the United States we are terrified by killer robots. In Japan people want to snuggle with killer robots.

I always think it's silly when people talk about works of culture taking risks. Because there's not any risk involved.

We are a categorically obsessed culture, where we have to compartmentalize everything in reference to another thing, like, 'What does it sound like? Does it sound like this?

OneBeat is one of the greatest initiatives in advancing the meeting of cultures worldwide.

We have to construct communities of artists because they don't naturally exist in our culture.

The truth of no truths becomes, inevitably, truth: a way of naming being, language, and culture that guards the boundaries of thought against claims it has not validated.

We live in a culture that encourages us to be big about ourselves, and I think the starting point of trying to build inner goodness is to be a little bit smaller about yourself.

That is the job of the Catholic Church, to be a balance to the materialistic drives of our culture and of economy.

I'm thankful that we live in a crassly commercial, polarized culture, so media jackals like me have a lot of work to do.

The garden is as good a symbol as you can find of a dialectic between spheres of experience - of culture and nature - that presuppose one another.

There's something within contemporary culture which is far more faux masculine than it was when men were really men.

We have developed a culture in which we eat with our taste buds, not our brains.

Chinese culture in general is not very religious. Confucianism is more a code of ethics than a religion, and ancestor worship is a way for parents to control you even after theyre dead.

The gospel always comes to people in cultural robes. There is no such thing as a ‘pure’ gospel, isolated from culture

What really makes the difference in innovation is whether the corporate culture is paying attention to innovation.

Culture exists and evolves to relegate to habit categories of interactions the constant conscious reference to which would make human interaction impossible.

You've got to marinate your head, in that time and culture. You've got to become them." (Speaking about researching, and reading, and immersing yourself in History)

People have compact to go beyond our own culture and upbringing to a degree that I think we don't acknowledge enough really.

I wasn't reading it [the Bible] as literature. I was reading it as literature, and as history, and as a moral guide, and as anthropology and law and culture.

The type of pop culture that is honestly very moving and powerful to me is [when artists] do their homework. They make it real.

Social Science … led us to the fallacy that, since all men have their being in culture and as a result of culture, they owe a debt to that culture which even a lifetime of altruism could not repay.

Our culture is obsessed with real events because we experience hardly any.

I've always been very, very supportive of fan cultures. I'm a fan of all kinds of things.

Film is our literature, so we should tell stories that are apropos of our culture, in that we can learn something about ourselves.

Our survival depends on the healing power of love, intimacy and relationships. As individuals. As communities. As a country. As a culture. Perhaps even as a species.

The principle was right there - you couldn't miss it. The more we did for our customers, the more they did for us.

Female sexuality is presented in our culture as a male fantasy, which doesn't include the reality of the abuse, the pleasure, the pain, the power, the complexity of women's sexuality.

Growing up in America, I never really appreciated my culture. I knew what being Hispanic was, but I thought that since I didn't look Hispanic, I was white.

Visual media is the dominant art form in our present day culture, whereas poetry is, at best, a proxy. Yet poetry and film are both "dream factories."

What do you expect from a culture and a nation that exerted more of its national will fighting against Disney World and Big Macs than the Nazis?

[Black people] come into the world exactly like you. It's just that there are circumstances in the culture that are dictated and put on our lives that we have to fight against.

From the beginning, this culture - civilization - has been a culture of occupation.

I think a lot of us are increasingly recognizing that the dominant culture is killing the planet.

I no longer see Descartes' statement as arbitrary. It is representative of our culture's narcissism. This narcissism leads to a disturbing disrespect for direct experience and a negation of the body.

Do not put chewed bones back on plates. Instead, throw them on the floor for the dog.

There is room for everyone; there is room for every culture, race, language and point of view.

What better way to get to know a culture than to go there and learn their sports?

If I want to get a taste of beach culture, I'll fire up my season 2 DVD of 'Beverly Hills, 90210.'

Culture is what people invent when they have lost nature.

I just think the fact that I was told not to be curious about the dark side, and it was such a religious-heavy upbringing made me interested in goth culture.

We have to work extra hard, because we in America are very ethnocentric--we think our culture is superior. Why's that? It's because we've got moon rocks, and nobody else has moon rocks.

It's strange to think that culture is simply a matter of millions of files flying around, but we now think in terms of networks for everything.

DJ Spooky was meant to be a kind of ironic take on that. It was always meant to be kind of a criticism and critique of how downtown culture would separate genres and styles because it was ambiguous.

My shows will always be inspired by hip hop culture and my upbringing within it.

Even though I'm English, I've all my life been heavily exposed to American television and culture in general.

Capital T truth is dead.

One thing appears reasonably certain, and that's that those who make allegations of a culture of deception, of intimidation or cover-up need to be extremely careful about such accusations.

I was so overwhelmed by India when I first came - it still inspires me because I still go for the culture, I still go for the colors.