Culture Quotes

Mistakes and prejudices are as interesting as anything else. They reveal a lot about the mind set and culture of the time under consideration.

I have carried my Jamaican Flag with pride around the world to share my culture and experience with others because I seek Balance which is what I believe life is all about.

This notion that it is up to each person to innovation in some way flies in the face of the industrial age, but you know what, the industrial age is over.

We live in a culture that doesn't acknowledge or validate human intuition and doesn't encourage us to rely on our intuitive wisdom.

I think they [ monastic folks ] were going to the desert to build a new society and in a sense to build a new world, a new culture together where it was easier to be good and holy.

I grew up in a storytelling culture, a tribal culture, but also in an American storytelling culture.

Democracy is not an incident that happens overnight, nor a gift that America can give to the world. It is a culture which needs peace to evolve.

It's true that PC culture has created very little honest dialogue.

It is only after we have integrated the dark side of the moon into our world view that we can begin to talk seriously of universal culture.

If we are genuinely committed to promoting a culture of peace, as individuals we must look to our values and ensure that we all exhibit a peace loving life to our nation's children.

Contemporary culture is not very good on responsibility.

What I feel with the best of hip-hop music and with the best of what has been produced by hip-hop culture is that it's going to be timeless, and it's going to last.

Culture and, within culture, music are the best and most fascinating thing that the German capital has to offer internationally. It is putting that at risk.

Culture is Anarchistic if it is alive at all.

Our culture's obsession with vintage objects has rendered us unable to separate history from nostalgia. People want heart. They want a chaser of emotion with their aesthetics.

America is deeply rooted in Negro culture: its colloquialisms; its humor; its music.

Culture Clash Dylan says when I meet his mother today I shouldn't mention that I'm Jewish. I say okay, but can I tell her about the HIV postive thing? He gives me a look. I give him one back

The culture of celebrity has become insane. It's all based on fantasy, and I find it creepy and disturbing.

If I can impact an executive and his or her team, I can help to change the culture of an organization.

When I was developing St. Lucia - around 2008, 2009, at the peak of Pitchfork culture - what was considered cool was being as alienating to your audience as possible.

If we are to reclaim our culture, we cannot afford narrow definitions.

You know, you're living in a society where if you say something that you might think may be OK, when it's more sensitive to that particular culture. You have to be very, very careful.

I disapproved of the fact that the government here refused to adopt the few reforms that Gorbachev put over in the field of media and the field of culture.

Every culture has their myths that people are aware of and share.

We've moved away from being a culture of people who think about movies to one made up of people who believe that spouting a list of preferences is the same as registering an opinion.

Principles are the basis for developing a vision and value system for all.

There is a dependence in the region that breeds a culture of defeatism.

The idea that America exists in a culture of violence is bullshit. What America exists in is a culture of Kardashian.

Superhero movies and comic books teach a lesson that runs directly counter to the culture-of-violence idea: guns are for bad guys too cowardly to fight like men.

In contemporary American culture, the religions are more and more treated as just passing beliefs - almost as fads - rather than as the fundaments upon which the devout build their lives.

Going there [Japan] in the early 80s was quite a culture shock. I think the bombardment of Shinjuku and all that would have filtered through, which certainly informed things we later filmed.

I think that's the fascinating thing that exists now. This contrasts with a celebrity art and celebrity music culture.

Toronto may be the only city where novels are integral to high art, the alternative scene and mainstream culture all at the same time.

Culture is always the echo of economic realities; that's what Marx teaches. Feminism is a clear example of that.

I want to tell beautiful stories. I know I want to tell stories that appeal to a large audience. I want to make movies that appeal to mass culture.

This website is the dream of people who want to change the culture of state government.

Snoop [Dog] said [Peaky Blinders] reminded him of how he got involved with gang culture. It's always fantastically flattering when I see people dress like that and take on the look.

There's guilt about our treatment of native peoples in modern intellectual life, and an unwillingness to acknowledge there could be anything good about Western culture.

There's a very comfortable techno-libertarian culture where you think you're doing the right thing.

Want to know where the action in a culture is? Watch where new language is turning up and where the lawyers collect, usually in that sequence.

So many people of my generation who served in the government were prisoners of the Cold War culture, still are.

Innocence as we understand it in our culture is very theatrical. The flip side is, if youre charming enough, you can get away with anything.

Susan Bordo’s Unbearable Weight is a masterpiece of complex an nuanced thinking not only about a significant problem that faces women but about our culture. A very valuable book.

The culture-heroes of our liberal bourgeois civilisation are ant-liberal and ant-bourgeois . . .

In a culture whose already classical dilemma is the hypertrophy of the intellect at the expense of energy and sensual capability, interpretation is the revenge of the intellect upon art.

But I cannot forgive those who did not care about more than their own glory or well-being. They thought they were civilized. They were despicable. Damn them all.

I think the culture today is very, very different from what it was in the '60s, and I feel lucky that I grew up at a time when I had these very strong female role models.

I have so many influences, I'm a big follower of fashion. I love fashion, because designers really find different reference points and really study up on different cultures.

The association between failure, loneliness, and solitude is so strong in our culture that people often find it difficult to believe that there are some who like being by themselves.

If literature survives at all, it is as retreat for those who refuse to assimilate to American mass culture.