Culture Quotes

The television anchorman Dan Rather turns up in rag-top native drag in Afghanistan, the surrogate of our culture with his camera crew, intrepid as Sir Richard Burton sneaking into Mecca.

Art has a prophetic role, denouncing the culture it lays bare.

Our hope is that a new manager, along with roster improvements, will restore a winning culture.

The guys in New York don’t know the new media. San Francisco takes more risks as a culture.

The whole intent of Perl 5's module system was to encourage the growth of Perl culture rather than the Perl core.

I've always loved books by the Bronte sisters. I love Jane Austen, too. I'm more influenced by people like her than by pop culture.

Getting anywhere you want is hard work. In this photography culture, everything looks so amazing. But it's actually very hard to get to where anybody gets.

I think there's more pressure to stand out in a way that is measurable externally. The fame culture is definitely way worse and weirder than it was when we were in high school.

All cultures are capable of democracy and liberalism. Everybody wants to be free.

Show me why your regulation of culture is needed. Show me how it does good. And until you can show me both, keep your lawyers away.

A free culture has been our past, but it will only be our future if we change the path we are on right now.

So uncritically do we accept the idea of property in culture that we don't even question when the control of that property removes our ability, as a people, to develop our culture democratically.

Culture is something that we all share and we are all the poorer for anyone excluded from it.

Apologetics has an important place in the local church as we seek to influence our communities for Christ in an increasingly skeptical culture.

We are somehow natured, not just to reproduce, but for sociality and even for culture.

Probably all cultures, certainly Western culture, always have been violent.

That was the peak. I just knew it was modern, not traditional culture. I could be cool

I was always drawn to more the social-expression-of-culture types.

People hire me to create some kind of archetype or some culture type, or something. I guess they accept whatever I come up with.

I think if the United States gave anything to culture at large in the 20th century, the most important contribution made was the popular song.

Eventually the revolutionaries become the established culture, and then what will they do

This desire to fashion, to shape, a self and a life has all but gone from a contemporary culture whose emphasis, paradoxically enough, is so much on self.

We wanted to do a woman on a reality show because that's what's happening right now-it's part of our culture.

As a culture women are brought up to be fundamentally insecure.

I love when people in culture show up on fictional TV shows. I don't mind at all being a name from the '90s.

I think gun culture is disgusting but people need to think about it before they start judging.

We raise awareness and drop information about access and laws into pop culture spaces through making videos and through live events. That's like fifty percent of what we do.

I am increasingly convinced that technological culture is the entire root of women's liberation.

Prig and philistine, Ph.D. and C.P.A., despot of English 218c and big shot of the Kiwanis Club-how much, at bottom, they both hate Art, and how hard it is to know which of them hates it the more.

Educated people do indeed speak the same languages; cultivated ones need not speak at all.

A city built upon mud; A culture built upon profit; Free speech nipped in the bud, The minority always guilty. Why should I want to go back To you, Ireland, my Ireland?

When I was a child I did engage in an arduous struggle to pass: learning English, getting rid of my accent, becoming conversant with the culture in all its large and small aspects.

If you think it's worth writing a book about then that means you suspect that you're not the only one. You suspect that it has something to do with the larger patterns of your culture.

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

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

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.

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.

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

All children are artists, and it is an indictment of our culture that so many of them lose their creativity, their unfettered imaginations, as they grow older.

We're all human beings with bodily needs living within a system. We don't need to prove that we're not a part of the fabric of the culture in order to want to change it.

In a culture defined by shades of gray, I think the absolute black and white choices in dark young adult novels are incredibly satisfying for readers.

Day after day, we culture our minds with the deep silence of our own Being.

A country whose culture is based on nonviolence will find it necessary to have every home as much self-contained as possible.

The most distinctive and largest contribution of Hinduism to India's culture is the doctrine of ahimsa.

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.

That will be my focus: building a culture that moves away from militarism.

Asian culture has a profoundly different relationship to work. It rewards people who are persistent.

I think it's sinful to give the audience material it knows already, whether the material is about race relations or the car culture or the depiction and placement of a candy bar.

Southern food derives its strength from many cultures. It's a melding of food cultures from Native Americans, enslaved African-Americans, and Europeans.