Culture Quotes

A richly detailed, poignant, and utterly fascinating look into another culture and how it is cross-pollinated by our own. It brings to mind the work of Ha Jin in its power and revelation of the new.

The military tends to be a traditional place. Traditional culture, traditional men are often attracted to serving in the military.

I think the culture is changing. An example of that is that the commanders truly want the very best person for the job regardless of gender.

There is the philosophy embedded in the culture we are living. It is quite clear for example that Arabs have a different culture than Malaysians.

What worries me sometimes in the culture is that the role for music that actually challenges and enlightens the audience is being pushed to the sidelines.

I hope that we have a culture that values every human life from the moment of conception to the moment of natural death.

Culture is a simplification and a lie. It's the currency by which fools navigate the world. Smart people get beyond it.

Culture is more and more consciously becoming a project carried out in the domain of language by, for instance, propaganda both governmental and commercial.

Culture is the greatest barrier to your enlightenment, your education, and your decency.

Since the very beginning of culture, what we seem to be are animals which take in raw material and excrete it imprinted with ideas.

One has attained a very fortunate incarnation, I think, to be in a culture, in a place, in a time when psychedelic knowledge is available.

Because the planetary culture is becoming ever more closely knitted together all its parts are becoming co-dependent.

It [culture] invites people to diminish themselves, and dehumanize themselves by behaving like machines, meme processors of memes passed down from Madison Avenue, and Hollywood, and what have you.

Ideologies are cultural memes. They are the most confining of the cultural memes. That's where culture gets real ugly. It is when you rub up against its ideologies.

Culture is another dimension.

I'm proposing on one level that hallucinogens be thought of as almost as social pheromones that regulate the rate at which language develops, and therefore regulate human culture generally.

I think transcending our cultures is going to be extraordinarily necessary for our survival. I don't think we can carry our cultures through the keyhole of the stretch of the next millennium

I think what electronic culture permits is incredible diversity, and what the print-created world demanded and created was tremendous suppression of diversity.

I love travel. There's nothing more beneficial than getting to travel, to see different cultures, to see different environments and expose your children to that.

Sometimes I feel like a one man crusade against the devaluation of music in America and culture in the arts.

Ivory towers are as rare as bowling alleys in tribal cultures.

The frontier between public and private shifts from time to time and culture to culture.

Culture carries no privilege to exist. Cultures do not have value simply because they are. Some cultures, the world is better off without.

I feel that within the Mormon culture there is a tremendous amount of fear - of women's voices, of questioning of authority, and ultimately of our own creativity.

I grew up in a culture in which it was a sin for a woman to speak out.

I come from a culture that embodies the need to convert others to "the truth." The Mormon Church has one of the largest missionary programs in the world. That does not interest me.

It would be a horrible business, a horrible sort of culture if you didn't have the candy pop as well as the real hard-hitting stuff. And I love some pop music.

The new human type cannot be properly understood without awareness of what he is continuously exposed to from the world of things about him, even in his most secret innervations.

The idea that after this war life will continue 'normally' or even that culture might be 'rebuilt' - as if the rebuilding of culture were not already its negation - is idiotic.

All testify to the coercion and sacrifice which culture imposes on man. To rely on them and deny the decline is to become even more firmly caught in its fatal coils.

Only a humanity to whom death has become as indifferent as its members, that has itself died, can inflict it administratively on innumerable people.

Becoming a walking, dancing, fire-breathing lifestyle dragon is not something you can pursue overnight! It takes years of studying, living, and understanding the modern culture!

Look at the Native American culture. They revere the elders.

Our minds and hearts are free to believe everything or nothing at all - and it is our duty to protect and perpetuate this sacred culture of freedom.

Tobacco is a culture productive of infinite wretchedness.

High culture is paranoid about sentiment. But human beings are intensely sentimental.

The disintegration of the culture starts with the artist. Im on a crusade to turn the tide in the arts, to restore dignity to the arts and, by extension, to the culture.

The Great Hall at the Met is one of the great portals of the world... From there, you can walk in any direction to almost any culture.

Journalism and the questions of journalistic ethics, and why certain stories are put on the air, when, how and for what reasons, are big questions in our culture and society.

Apple has a culture of excellence that is, I think, so unique and so special. I'm not going to witness or permit the change of it.

Doing less is not being lazy. Don't give in to a culture that values personal sacrifice over personal productivity.

I love the history of the sport, I love the culture that surrounds it, and I never dreamed I'd become a fanatic. I'm such a fanatic now that I'm committed to competing.

If we are not deliberately thinking about our culture and our context, we will be conformed to it without ever knowing.

It's hard for it to make a mark in this city because London has so much culture to offer.

In my research, all roads led back to Oscar. It's definitely in a way trying to understand the truly English element to glam-rock. It really does not come from American culture.

The loss of the culture is one of the main reasons Ciro Guerra wanted to tell their story.

We live in a material world. I'm not saying that beautiful things don't enhance our lives. But, in our culture, we're never happy.

Fashion is very quick. It's very disposable. It's immediately - it tells you exactly where we are in our culture, especially women's fashion.

I think it's good to look at how people lived before, and then take the best bits of that culture and try to mix it in with your own.

American movies are often very good at mining those great underlying myths that make films robustly travel across class, age, gender, culture.