Culture Quotes

What is for me socialism is exactly the opposite of a bureaucratically-managed culture.

The fact is that the culture does not have only positive effects on our intellectual and moral functions but also negative effects.

I've been to Australia several times, and I just like the earthiness; it's part of the culture. That's a really good vibe to be around.

Everybody uses pop culture as a shorthand. You might make an obscure reference to Monty Python or Iron Eagle that only some people will get, but if they do it conveys a world of meaning.

I'm incredibly nostalgic for the '80s, because I think that's when Geek Culture really kicked in to high gear.

I bring the staple of my culture.

I solidify his [ Riccardo Tisci] vision and what he is trying to manifest, make it a crystal or solid thing because of the relationship I have with my culture and what my music means to him.

I know the community mostly for its art and culture... and of course its food, I eat at their restaurants." "They make you feel like taking off your shoes... it feels like home.

Yet in the celebrity-obsessed culture, where everything of you is a shot on the red carpet, I don't want that to dominate my image. First and foremost, I am an actor. I want great roles.

What really is wild about rock 'n' roll? Nothing. It's so banal and so part of corporate culture. It threatens to lose all its life.

What counts is the cultural level

Obviously geek culture is super influential, the web kind of started from a very geeky point of view because geeks are all about technology.

Good music often starts in underground culture and then comes to the surface.

Breaking with the pack may be exactly what we should be doing. Saying "no" to the dominant culture that is trapping us in destructive ways of living might be the most life-serving thing we can do.

The creative process is a cocktail of instinct, skill, culture and a highly creative feverishness.

In every walk of life each man puts on a personality and outward appearance so as to look what he wants to be thought; in fact you might say that society is entirely made up of assumed personalities.

In politics, the tripod is he most unstable of all structures. It's be bad enough without the complication of a feudal trade culture which turns its back on most science.

That's the statement of the culture of England and Britain that someone would try to con a personal statement out of you to then be broadcast everywhere for everyone to debate.

Our culture is obsessed with being busy, and I think it's crazy. I don't fill all my time.

The man of culture is one of the poorest mortals alive. For simple pedantry and want of good sense no man is his equal. No assumption is too unreal, no end is too unpractical for him.

Today, nobody cares about European culture. We have a tradition, a vision, a culture of the past, we have legacy, but we don't have a present culture and we don't have a future.

I don't think the world is particularly responsive to - our world, the culture we are in, to art right now.

The culture is with some rapidity fearing its imagination. I don't know why. Imagination is not of interest.

In our culture we are taught to be accessible and open; it signifies a good person. In mysticism it is the opposite, people can scan you and drain you.

Sexuality is the primary focus of our culture, and almost no one has come to resolve it.

This culture seems to be so obsessed with sexuality, the good and the bad of it. Every advertisement, every preacher, everybody's concerned, one way or the other about sexuality.

Growing up in Bombay made me immune to culture shock, in a way. So, culture shock is not part of my DNA.

We belong to an age whose culture is in danger of perishing through the means to culture.

As far as Germany extends it ruins culture.

Without myth, however, every culture loses its healthy creative natural power: it is only a horizon encompassed with myth that rounds off to unity a social movement.

There are expressions and bulls-eyes of the spirit, there are epigrams, a little handful of words, in which a whole culture, a whole society is suddenly crystallized.

Wherever Germany extends her sway, she ruins culture.

The Germans are incapable of any conception of greatness: proof Schumann.

Even now, nature is the only flame, on which the poetic spirit feeds; from it alone it draws all its power, to it alone it speaks even in the artificial, in the man engaged in culture.

With the Internet and social media being a huge part of today's culture, I think it's super important to promote staying smart online.

If people see North American hockey and they see violence and brutality and it's not so interesting, that sends a message too about your culture.

Sporting culture is needed where marks are given to students for sports in schools, jobs are assured for sportsperson, and sponsors are willing to support them through rough times.

There is something wrong with our culture when the view that marriage is between one man and one woman, a view shared by half the nation, is portrayed as evidence of hatred.

Care Immensely or Die: This is a bigger culture shift than you realize.

Those who attempt to evangelize the culture by imitating its forms must beware lest the culture evangelize them.

Just because we live in an insane culture doesn't mean we have to be insane too.

Punk is no longer a subculture or a counterculture in any way. It's totally just a small reflecting mirror for the same things that go on in larger culture.

Each culture might lend its own dialect, but above all that is the language of music itself, and it doesn't care about politics or boundaries.

"Mad Men" - it seems like they try to capture this glamorized version of the '50s and '60s advertising culture.

There's an obsession, within our culture, with the genteel thief. Somebody who commits a crime, but does it in a classy way.

The society of the Culture-Philistines makes life a burden to exceptional men.

What we are confronted with now is a growing perception that if we desire a certain type of civilization and culture we must exterminate the sort of people who do not fit into it.

The floods of nonsense printed in the form of critical opinions seem to me a chief curse of the times, a chief obstacle to true culture.

Culture is not a matter of a change of climate.

The organizing principal for any culture is War.