Culture Quotes
Postman is a media analyst and his theory is that television doesn't influence our culture, but that it is our culture and the presidency and anything that relies on television.
Regardless of whether you speak the language or are familiar with a culture, the picture should hold up.
The heart and soul of school culture is what people believe, the assumptions they make about how school works.
The pressure to succeed has a lot to do with why people overstep the line. It is a peculiar weakness of western culture where we have made a fetish of success.
Feminism is a struggle to end sexist oppression. Therefore, it is necessarily a struggle to eradicate the ideology of domination that permeates Western culture on various levels.
if you don't exist in the arts of a culture, you're invisible. The arts are what express the soul of who we are and that expresses our humanity.
Independence is useful, but caring attitudes and behaviors shrivel up in a culture where each person is responsible only for himself.
Culture is so incredibly important because it is the foundation for all future innovation. People with passion can change the world.
If you know your ceremonies and culture you'll know where the offense takes place
I just wanna affect the culture and wanna be able to support young people with goals that aren't just limited to rapping and producing.
The time has come to move beyond eco-elitism to eco-populism. Ecopopulism. To change our laws and culture, the green movement justice, political solutions and social change.
My thinking is that if we're going to take from a culture, let's take from a culture that has exemplified success for thousands of years.
Children in the 21st (century) have been transformed from net producers of their own toy and play culture, to net consumers of play culture imposed by adults.
Modern culture is constantly growing more objective. Its tissues grow more and more out of impersonal energies, and absorb less and less the subjective entirety of the individual.
That fact is that we live in an extremely violent culture, and we all justify violence if it's for what we believe in .
The purpose of education is to keep a culture from being drowned in senseless repetitions, each of which claims to offer a new insight.
Love is the single most powerful and important word and notion in culture and language. Until the power of love supersedes the love of power we have no chance of ever being successful.
Each civilization has its own kind of pestilence and can control it only by reforming itself.
There would have been no Beats deal without the Samsung deal. It showed the number one company the importance of connecting with culture.
I think we live a culture that's obsessed with people, you know, 'Celebrities are just like us!' Everything I do except my job is critically analyzed online.
Even if you don't like colours, you will end up having something red. For everyone who doesn't like colour, red is a symbol of a lot of culture. It has a different signification but never a bad one.
For Filipino Americans, it's a battle for recognition, for identity in a culture where, for the mainstream, Asians tend to fade into a monochromatic racialized 'other.'
Intellectual freedom is the only guarantee of a scientific - democratic approach to politics, economic development, and culture.
Philosophers have often looked for the defining feature of humans — language, rationality, culture, and so on. I'd stick with this: Man is the only animal that likes Tabasco sauce.
Food is very representative of a city's culture. In order to really get to know a place and the people, you've got to eat the food.
The Afro-American experience is the only real culture that America has. Basically, every American tries to walk, talk, dress and behave like African Americans.
True wisdom is free of the dramas of culture or religion and should bring us only a sense of peace and happiness.
(Male) culture was (and is) parasitical, feeding on the emotional strength of women without reciprocity.
It's obvious that the rest of the world loves high African culture - African culture, period.
Abstract art was the quivalent of poetic expression; I didn’t need to use words,but colors and lines. I didn’t need to belong to a language-oriented culture but to an open form of expression.
The days are gone when a country can issue orders to other peoples. Today, mankind needs culture, ideas and logic.
A lot of my work reflects the incredible influence that America has had on contemporary African culture. Some of it's insidious, some of it's innocuous, some of it's invisible. It's there.
I am convinced that the stratigraphic method will in the future enable archaeology to throw far more light on the history of American culture than it has done in the past.
Culture is the widening of the mind and of the spirit. It is never a narrowing of the mind or a restriction of the human spirit or the country's spirit.
A race of people is like and individual man; until it uses its own talent, takes pride in its own history, expresses its own culture, affirms its own selfhood, it can never fulfill itself.
The triumph of advertising in the culture industry is that consumers feel compelled to buy and use its products even though they see through them.
Russia is a part of European culture. Therefore, it is with difficulty that I imagine NATO as an enemy.
I've always tried to insert consciousness and spirituality in my records, interpreting the writings of all cultures and religions and how they apply to life in modern times.
Those too impressed with material things cannot hold their place n the world of culture; they are relegated to inferiority and ultimate death.
I came to see, in my time at IBM, that culture isn't just one aspect of the game; it is the game.
Very often the effort men put into activities that seem completely useless turns out to be extremely important in ways no one could foresee. Play has always been the mainspring of culture.