Culture Quotes
There is no way to re-enchant our lives in a disenchanted culture except by becoming renegades from that culture and planting the seeds for a new one.
It is not part of a true culture to tame tigers, any more than it is to make sheep ferocious.
In a way, this is a definition of shamanism. A shaman is a person who by some means has gotten out of their own culture.
Yeah, I don't deal with current events or pop culture, and I avoid politics like the plague.
But one of the most fantastic things about Ireland and Dublin is that the pubs are like Paris and the cafe culture. And Dublin, in many ways, is a pub culture.
Massive immigration brings with it cultures that are sometimes in contradiction with our values.
It would be impossible to be a woman in Western culture and not have your own issues about your image and what you look like.
When something really bad is going on in a culture, the average guy doesn't see it. He can't. He's average and is surrounded by and immersed in the cant and discourse of the status quo.
The whole point of American culture is to pick up any old piece of trash and make it shine with more facets than the Hope Diamond.
If you’re looking for the origins of film culture in America, look no further than Amos Vogel.
I love Latino culture but I hate the concept of "la raza." It is a divisive mindset.
What would it be like to have not only color vision but culture vision, the ability to see the multiple worlds of others.
Great companies have high cultures of accountability, it comes with this culture of criticism I was talking about before, and I think our culture is strong on that.
Proper history teaching is being crushed under the weight of play-based pedagogy which infantilises children, teachers and our culture.
There are very few adults in our culture able to imagine any genuine life coming from the vertical plane - tradition, religion, or devotion.
We want to understand what works here rather than what worked at any other organization.
The prostitute is not, as feminists claim, the victim of men, but rather their conqueror, an outlaw, who controls the sexual channels between nature and culture
For the first time, the weird and the stupid and the coarse are becoming our cultural norms, even our cultural ideal.
Scientists are very much entangled in their culture and this culture is not pristine, untouched by other cultures and practices.
The paradigm of Western culture is that the essence of persons is dangerous; thus, they must be taught, guided, and controlled by those with superior authority.
The culture that's going to survive in the future is the culture that you can carry around in your head.
There are three (3) principles on which human life flourishes, and they are contradicted by the culture of education under which most teachers have to labor and most students have to endure.
I majored in directing. However, I did spend some time at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture in Harlem, so I am somewhat well-versed in African Studies.
The world's five thousand extant languages are products of our shared ability, but the five thousand cultures they create are separate from each other.
Learning is not easy, but hard; culture is severe. The steps to Parnassus are steep and terribly arduous.
Equal wealth and equal opportunities of culture have simply made us all members of one class.
Advertising is a valuable economic factor because it is the cheapest way of selling goods, particularly if the goods are worthless.
The shared meal elevates eating from a mechanical process of fueling the body to a ritual of family and community, from the mere animal biology to an act of culture.
The imagination is the goal of history. I see culture as an effort to literally realize our collective dreams.
I acquired an admiration for Japanese culture, art, and architecture, and learned of the existence of the game of GO, which I still play.
Ours is a culture and a time immensely rich in trash as it is in treasures.
An intelligence is the biological and psychological potential to analyze information in specific ways, in order to solve problems or to create products that are valued in a culture.
Celtic, like Barcelona, are more than a football club. Our clubs are a symbol of a culture and community that has not always been made welcome in their respective countries.
I think that if people show up in jeans and chains, it's great that all parts of culture are interested in music. People forget sometimes that it's about the music, not how you act and dress.
The mindset that is needed, the capabilities that are needed, the metrics that are needed, the whole culture that is needed for discontinuous innovation, are fundamentally different.
The world does not need a war against 'terrorism', it needs a culture of peace based on human rights for all.
Culture is like wealth; it makes us more ourselves, it enables us to express ourselves
Culture must have its ultimate aim in the metaphysical or it will cease to be culture.
My works are Chinese literature, which is part of world literature. They show the life of Chinese people as well as the country's unique culture and folk customs.
There is no comparing the brutality and cynicism of today's pop culture with that of forty years ago: from High Noon to Robocop is a long descent.
More than a mere alternative strategy, regenerative agriculture represents a fundamental shift in our culture’s relationship to nature.
Of all the self-fulfilling prophecies in our culture, the assumption that aging means decline and poor health is probably the deadliest.
As citizens, we must prevent wrongdoing because the world in which we all live, wrong-doer, wrong sufferer and spectator, is at stake.
The present aristocracy of western culture, at the very moment when it most clearly dominates the world, is being imitated rapidly and successfully in every eastern country.
I think food culture is always evolving, and there will constantly be people looking both forward and back. That's what makes it exciting.
As I am from Hawaiʻi, the ocean is part of my culture and who I am. My ancestors were great ocean explorers.