Culture Quotes

Cutting and pasting is the essence of what hip-hop culture is all about for me. It's about drawing from what's around you, and subverting it and decontextualizing it.

That vision of a common culture is now simply a remote wistfulness.

Hire people who are better than you are, then leave them to get on with it. Look for people who will aim for the remarkable, who will not settle for the routine.

I start thinking: How many souls hip-hop has affected? How many dead folks this art resurrected? How many nations this culture connected? Who am I to judge one's perspective?

The difficulty of carrying on a leisure-oriented tradition of culture in a work-oriented society is enough in itself to keep the present crisis in our culture unresolved.

To understand the culture, study the dance. To understand the dance, study the people.

Redeeming culture is the never ending mission of the church.

Unless man can make new and original adaptations to his environment as rapidly as his science can change the environment, our culture will perish.

We have contact with alien cultures.

I think that there are some teachers that do a very good job of incorporating culture and history. And there are some teachers who could use a little more help in that area.

...Any authentic creation is a gift to the future.

Well, the most important thing about Islam is that we have to differentiate between two kinds of Islam. The first one is the institution of Islam... second, the culture of Islam.

I think if education was celebrated in pop culture, wed live in a better place.

Jazz is not the popular culture. Jazz is in the same position in our culture as classical music. A very small minority of people really love it.

When the forms of an old culture are dying, the new culture is created by a few people who are not afraid to be insecure.

One man cannot hold another man down in the ditch without remaining down in the ditch with him.

Culture is the arts elevated to a set of beliefs.

Misunderstanding a culture's symbols is a common root of predujice.

It's an old ploy of the bourgeoisie. They keep a standing 'art' to defend their collapsing culture.

What should a good children’s book be like? If you ask me, I can tell you after thinking long and hard: It must be good.

Frontline love. It is our one hope for breaking down barriers and for restoring the sense of community, of caring for one another, that our decadent, impersonalized culture has sucked out of us.

The whole history of civilization is strewn with creeds and institutions which were invaluable at first, and deadly afterwards

Christians are called to redeem entire cultures, not just individuals.

Can you imagine the impact on our own culture if American Christians began using their riches as if they belonged to God?

Soccer is an art more central to our culture than anything the Arts Council deigns to recognize.

When there is no such thing as religious culture and moral education, serious social problems such as drug addiction and racism fill the gap.

In the dancehall world, we have crews and they battle. It's part of the entire culture surrounding dancehall.

If we demand things in worship that can't be in every culture, then we're demanding cultural preferences, not biblical.

As an artist you are free to use any image, any style, any idea from any culture and any period of history.

I ask all people of goodwill to help build a culture of encounter, solidarity and peace

Art is a universal language and through it each nation makes its own unique contribution to the culture of mankind.

We're a spoiled, lazy culture, full of ethnic pride that has to have a parade for every nationality.

My problem is with the warped value system our culture has. Why is it that if you knife a woman in a movie it's PG, but if you swear at her it's rated R and if you make love to her it's rated X?

Every contact we have with a customer influences whether or not they'll come back. We have to be great every time or we'll lose them.

I tried to conform to what everyone thinks is beautiful. But my genetics gave me a curvy figure, and I've come to understand that in the Latina culture, that is beautiful.

Our culture is revered and it inspires people all around the globe.

All tradition is merely the past.

If we learn anything from the history of economic development, it is that culture makes all the difference.

A culture without mythology is not really a civilisation.

I think every culture is passionate about food; some are just passionate about food and the food is shitty.

I think living in our culture right now, there's a universal experience where we feel like we become what we do. Sometimes that's rewarding and sometimes that creates an existential crisis.

The ideology of hardness and cruelty runs through American culture like an electric current.

Two half-truths do not make a truth, and two half- cultures do not make a culture

[On culture] It's living the core values when you hire; when you write an email; when you are working on a project; when you are walking in the hall.

Our Phoenician ancestors never left anything they undertook unfinished. Consider what they accomplished in their days, and the degree of culture they attained.

The conception of what is normal varies not only with the culture but also within the same culture, in the course of time.

Culture relates to objects and is a phenomenon of the world; entertainment relates to people and is a phenomenon of life.

I meant exactly what I said: that we are saddled with a culture that hasn't advanced as far as science.

Why create churches for 50-year-olds and let culture have the students?

The therapeutic concerns of the culture too often set the agenda for evangelical preaching.