Culture Quotes

The study of foodways - the intersection of food and culture - addresses a central issue in the humanities: how we connect the great dramas of history with the lives of ordinary people.

I will go further, and assert that nature without culture can often do more to deserve praise than culture without nature.

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.

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

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.

From a hundred cultures, [there is] one culture which does what no culture has ever done before-gives a place to every human gift.

Photographs [are] of course heavily dependent upon the culture, the disciplinary point of view and the idiosyncratic vision of the particular photographer-analyst.

I think that one of the tasks of feminist women - mainly women of culture - in our time is to seek out those women who were only forgotten because they were women.

Life is a constant back-and-forth. We take a breath in and then we breathe out. The same is true for the culture as a whole.

Those who have most at stake in the old culture, or are most rigid in their beliefs, try to summon people back to the old ideas.'

Cultures cherish artists because they are people who can say, Look at that.

It is diversity that makes any natural system robust, and diversity that stabilizes culture against the eccentricity and arrogance that have so often called themselves reason and science.

Western culture has more need because they're so much more degenerated. They're so much more hurt, and misbalanced completely.

I believe that reforms will not really take hold if they do not gradually come into the culture of the people.

Italian culture is so deeply soaked in an appreciation of the good things in life.

This clash of the culture, East and the West, us and them, Muslim and Christian, does not exist.

If Jesus were living in our culture, he would probably hang out in coffeehouses.

The relentless pressures of the so-called marketplace have distorted all our culture industries.

When you turn your team upside down and try to figure out what the culture of the team is, you take the greatest risk a team can take.

For next several years PSU can focus on rebuilding its athletic culture, not worrying about whether it's going to a bowl game.

The following is a phrase we don't hear enough but that I sincerely mean (and our culture needs to hear more often): I love being married.

Music is in every country and every culture around the world. It's universal.

I'm just a journalist. I shine a mirror to the culture. I give the cop-out answer.

My work generally tends to be an all-out, 360-degree subversive take on everything, most of all my own notion of myself as a son, father, husband, human being and male in this culture.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

There is no individualism in Eastern or oral cultures.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

Being cultured is the least expensive form of respectability.

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

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

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

I think being central to the culture is overrated. Who really gives a damn if something is popular? Jay-Z isn't actually any better than James Joyce even though more people understand him.

Reality TV, blogging and self-publishing are all evidence of a society's or culture's desire to be more public. And that's a sign of a healthy or energetic culture.

We are such a sound-bite culture; people are so accustomed to flipping through their television so quickly that we only have just a few seconds to grab someone's attention.

It seems that writing chose me. I feel that because I know history, and I know the history of so many cultures; I have lived a large life.

The price of being oneself is so high and involves so much ruthlessness toward others (or what looks like ruthlessness in our duty-bound culture) that very few people can afford it.