CULTURE QUOTES

• You will always find [hatred] strongest and most violent where there is the lowest degree of culture.
  ~ Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe ~
• Whoever controls the media --the images-- controls the culture.
  ~ Allen Ginsberg ~
• The fact is, that civilization requires slaves. The Greeks were quite right there. Unless there are slaves to do the ugly, horrible, uninteresting work, culture, and contemplation become almost impossible. Human slavery is wrong, insecure, and demoralizing. On mechanical slavery, on the slavery of the machine, the future of the world depends.
  ~ Oscar Wilde ~
• Culture is on the horns of this dilemma if profound and noble it must remain rare, if common it must become mean.
  ~ George Santayana ~
• Accurate scholarship can unearth the whole offence from luther untill noe that has driven a culture mad. From what occured at linz what huge imago made a psychopathic god. i and the public know what all schoolchildren learn those to whom evil is done do evil in return.
  ~ W. H. Auden ~
• The tongue is a silent master of fire that set's ablaze nations and culture
  ~ Precious Moses ~
• Learning a foreign language, and the culture that goes with it, is one of the most useful things we can do to broaden the empathy and imaginative sympathy and cultural outlook of children.
  ~ Michael Gove ~
• Learning a foreign language, and the culture that goes with it, is one of the most useful things we can do to broaden the empathy and imaginative sympathy and cultural outlook of children.
  ~ Michael Gove ~
• Bob Marley performed the 'One Love Peace' concert in Jamaica with the two different warring political sides. There's always been that in black music and culture in general. It's no surprise because black music is such a reflection of what's going on in black life. It's not unusual for hip-hop.
  ~ Mos Def ~
• High and low culture come together in all Post Modern art, and American poetry is not excluded from this.
  ~ Diane Wakoski ~
• It would be good for us Africans to accept ourselves as we are and recapture some of the positive aspects of our culture.
  ~ Wangari Maathai ~
• I think the advent of the Internet gave us all a big boost, because by the time the Internet became mainstream and you could get it in your home, a lot of us were used to dealing in fan culture, writing to magazines or anything at the back of comic books.
  ~ Kevin Smith ~
• The writer crafts their ideal world. In my world, everyone has really long conversations or just picks apart pop culture to death and everyone talks in monologue.
  ~ Kevin Smith ~
• Movies for adults sucked in the 1980s, and music for adults sucked even worse whether we're talking about Kathleen Turner flicks or Sting albums, the decade's non-teen culture has no staying power at all.
  ~ Rob Sheffield ~
• Movies for adults sucked in the 1980s, and music for adults sucked even worse whether we're talking about Kathleen Turner flicks or Sting albums, the decade's non-teen culture has no staying power at all.
  ~ Rob Sheffield ~
• Like many other touchstones of twenty-first-century pop culture, 'The Sopranos' was hatched in the late Nineties, predicting a future that never arrived. It was designed for a decade that would be just like the Nineties, except more so, in an America that enjoyed seeing itself as smarter and braver and freer than ever before.
  ~ Rob Sheffield ~
• Faith, culture, structure and guidance are good things.
  ~ Bethenny Frankel ~
• I think the most interesting parts of human experience might be the sparks that come from that sort of chipping flint of cultures rubbing against each other. And living on the border between Mexico and the U.S. for so many years gave me a lot of insight into that.
  ~ Barbara Kingsolver ~
• I often begin movies with music in my head it's a very important dimension to me. Not just the music itself, but how to use music in film: when and how and subtlety. I don't like to be too sweet in my stories, and I like the abrasive clang, the contrasting of sounds and cultures.
  ~ Mira Nair ~
• I am at home in many cultures. I live actively in three continents and I've done that for most of my life, so I just make films as I see the world, and that happens to speak to people. I do things that I want to do.
  ~ Mira Nair ~
• The culture is going into a psychological depression. We are concerned about our place in the world, about being competitive: Will my children have as much as I have? Will I ever own my own home? How can I pay for a new car? Are immigrants taking away my white world?
  ~ James Hillman ~
• The culture is going into a psychological depression. We are concerned about our place in the world, about being competitive: Will my children have as much as I have? Will I ever own my own home? How can I pay for a new car? Are immigrants taking away my white world?
  ~ James Hillman ~
• The idea of the sacred is quite simply one of the most conservative notions in any culture, because it seeks to turn other ideas - uncertainty, progress, change - into crimes.
  ~ Salman Rushdie ~
• I think our culture has gotten so skewed. People assume that because you're an actor you want to write a book to exploit your celebrity, but my celebrity is only a byproduct of me making movies. I have no intention of being a celebrity.
  ~ Jonah Hill ~
• Once you make a movie like 'Superbad,' when it's popular and you're the lead, you get offered all kinds of things and there's a temptation to make bad movies either for the money or to maintain your relevance in pop culture.
  ~ Jonah Hill ~
• The fact that the Kardashians could be more popular than a show like 'Mad Men' is disgusting. It's a super disgusting part of our culture, but I still find it funny to make a joke about it.
  ~ Jonah Hill ~
• I had to confront my fears and master my every demonic thought about inferiority, insecurity, or the fear of being black, young, and gifted in this Western culture.
  ~ Lauryn Hill ~
• Good is somebody who delivered and allowed the company to overcome obstacles, without leaving a profound impact on its culture. Great is somebody who leads his company to achievements and performance and value that nobody was expecting it had.
  ~ Carlos Ghosn ~
• In this country, the health concerns and the environmental concerns are as deep as in Europe. All the surveys show that. But here, we didn't have the cultural dimension. This is a fast-food culture.
  ~ Jeremy Rifkin ~
• In this country, the health concerns and the environmental concerns are as deep as in Europe. All the surveys show that. But here, we didn't have the cultural dimension. This is a fast-food culture.
  ~ Jeremy Rifkin ~
• Culture follows power.
  ~ Fareed Zakaria ~
• Well, marriage is a very important part of our culture and our society. If we want to have a hopeful and decent society, we ought to aim for the ideal.
  ~ Karl Rove ~
• Well, marriage is a very important part of our culture and our society. If we want to have a hopeful and decent society, we ought to aim for the ideal.
  ~ Karl Rove ~
• The chief function of the city is to convert power into form, energy into culture, dead matter into the living symbols of art, biological reproduction into social creativity.
  ~ Lewis Mumford ~
• To live your life well, and have respect for what came before or after - there's a strong respect for that in African culture.
  ~ Anna Deavere Smith ~
• Zhang Yimou tried to use martial arts to talk about Chinese culture, Chinese people. What do they think, what do they want and what do they hope.
  ~ Jet Li ~
• My wife wanted my children to have some Chinese culture and education. She believes the children need to learn two languages and two cultures.
  ~ Jet Li ~
• Well, right now, I'm very fascinated with 1920s Berlin. I mean, probably the more interesting thing would be to go to the beginning of civilization or precivilization - like polytheistic times. It would be interesting to see what came before modern religion and culture - what circumstances created the environment or the need for it.
  ~ Natalie Portman ~
• The things that inform student culture are created and controlled by the unseen culture, the sociological aspects of our climbing culture, our 'me' generation, our yuppie culture, our SUVs, or, you know, shopping culture, our war culture.
  ~ Gus Van Sant ~
• It seems to me that, in every culture, I come across a chapter headed 'Wisdom.' And then I know exactly what is going to follow: 'Vanity of vanities, all is vanity.'
  ~ Ludwig Wittgenstein ~
• Not every religion has to have St. Augustine's attitude to sex. Why even in our culture marriages are celebrated in a church, everyone present knows what is going to happen that night, but that doesn't prevent it being a religious ceremony.
  ~ Ludwig Wittgenstein ~
• Not every religion has to have St. Augustine's attitude to sex. Why even in our culture marriages are celebrated in a church, everyone present knows what is going to happen that night, but that doesn't prevent it being a religious ceremony.
  ~ Ludwig Wittgenstein ~
• As the tension eases, we must look in the direction of agriculture, industry and education as our final goals, and toward democracy under Mr Mubarak.
  ~ Naguib Mahfouz ~
• It's funny now how much we look at - whatever you want to call it: art, design, culture stuff, film - online, and how in the online world, you're instantly global.
  ~ Mike Mills ~
• It's funny now how much we look at - whatever you want to call it: art, design, culture stuff, film - online, and how in the online world, you're instantly global.
  ~ Mike Mills ~
• Every major food company now has an organic division. There's more capital going into organic agriculture than ever before.
  ~ Michael Pollan ~
• We should have a State in which we could live and breathe as free men and which we could develop according to our own lights and culture and where principles of Islamic social justice could find free play.
  ~ Muhammad Ali Jinnah ~
• Really, when it comes to gay rights, there's two wars going on. The first war is political. But the culture war is over.
  ~ Dan Savage ~
• The universal human laws - need, love for the beloved, fear, hunger, periodic exaltation, the kindness that rises up naturally in the absence of hunger/fear/pain - are constant, predictable, reliable, universal, and are merely ornamented with the details of local culture.
  ~ George Saunders ~
• It's really cool to see glowsticks at the show, to see dance music culture infiltrating and becoming one with the metal community.
  ~ Jonathan Davis ~
• It's really cool to see glowsticks at the show, to see dance music culture infiltrating and becoming one with the metal community.
  ~ Jonathan Davis ~
• Some people think literature is high culture and that it should only have a small readership. I don't think so... I have to compete with popular culture, including TV, magazines, movies and video games.
  ~ Haruki Murakami ~
• I deeply believe that if the Australian Labor Party, a party of which I have been a proud member for more than 30 years, is to have the best future for our nation, then it must change fundamentally its culture and to end the power of faceless men. Australia must be governed by the people, not by the factions.
  ~ Kevin Rudd ~
• The worth of a civilization or a culture is not valued in the terms of its material wealth or military power, but by the quality and achievements of its representative individuals - its philosophers, its poets and its artists.
  ~ Herbert Read ~
• The environmental crisis arises from a fundamental fault: our systems of production - in industry, agriculture, energy and transportation - essential as they are, make people sick and die.
  ~ Barry Commoner ~
• History shows that when the church accommodates culture, it weakens it.
  ~ Rick Warren ~
• For a culture that has such a problem with death, we seem to deal with it in a quite bizarre way. We see people shot, killed and blown up, and we find it funny and sexy and all those things. But, the reality of it is that every day people die, and people are really sad and they grieve and they go through a really difficult process with it.
  ~ Michael Sheen ~
• For a culture that has such a problem with death, we seem to deal with it in a quite bizarre way. We see people shot, killed and blown up, and we find it funny and sexy and all those things. But, the reality of it is that every day people die, and people are really sad and they grieve and they go through a really difficult process with it.
  ~ Michael Sheen ~
• For a culture that has such a problem with death, we seem to deal with it in a quite bizarre way. We see people shot, killed and blown up, and we find it funny and sexy and all those things. But, the reality of it is that every day people die, and people are really sad and they grieve and they go through a really difficult process with it.
  ~ Michael Sheen ~
• I don't have space to enter into the examples or the history of this, so I'm left with having to make the bold statement that culture is extinct.
  ~ Vivienne Westwood ~
• The future is built on brains, not prom court, as most people can tell you after attending their high school reunion. But you'd never know it by talking to kids or listening to the messages they get from the culture and even from their schools.
  ~ Anna Quindlen ~
• The spiral in a snail's shell is the same mathematically as the spiral in the Milky Way galaxy, and it's also the same mathematically as the spirals in our DNA. It's the same ratio that you'll find in very basic music that transcends cultures all over the world.
  ~ Joseph Gordon-levitt ~
• Just as the science and art of agriculture depend upon chemistry and botany, so the art of education depends upon physiology and psychology.
  ~ Edward Thorndike ~
• Just as the science and art of agriculture depend upon chemistry and botany, so the art of education depends upon physiology and psychology.
  ~ Edward Thorndike ~
• Celebrity culture has gone crazy, and I think the reason is that real news is just not bearable, and it also seems impossible to change anything.
  ~ Chris Martin ~
• Widespread state control over art and culture has left no room for freedom of expression in the country. For more than 60 years, anyone with a dissenting opinion has been suppressed. Chinese art is merely a product: it avoids any meaningful engagement. There is no larger context. Its only purpose is to charm viewers with its ambiguity.
  ~ Ai Weiwei ~
• I've sort of escaped my background, as people often do, through art and culture.
  ~ Danny Boyle ~
• Violence against women in all its forms is a human rights violation. It's not something that any culture, religion or tradition propagates.
  ~ Michelle Bachelet ~
• All the culture war issues will be settled by the court.
  ~ Gary Bauer ~
• There is something wrong with our culture when the view that marriage is between one man and one woman, a view shared by half the nation, is portrayed as evidence of hatred.
  ~ Gary Bauer ~
• If you take different mythologies from different cultures, the names may change and the story lines may vary but there is always something in common.
  ~ Maynard James Keenan ~
• A people without the knowledge of their past history, origin and culture is like a tree without roots.
  ~ Marcus Garvey ~
• A people without the knowledge of their past history, origin and culture is like a tree without roots.
  ~ Marcus Garvey ~
• The marriage of a man and woman is the most enduring human institution, honored in all cultures and by every religious faith. It's in this institution that children are meant to be nurtured. We know this after thousands of years of human experience.
  ~ Jeff Miller ~
• The marriage of a man and woman is the most enduring human institution, honored in all cultures and by every religious faith. It's in this institution that children are meant to be nurtured. We know this after thousands of years of human experience.
  ~ Jeff Miller ~
• Exclusively oral cultures are unencumbered by dead knowledge, dead facts. Libraries, on the other hand, are full of them.
  ~ Huston Smith ~
• There's an assault on human sexuality, as Judge Scalia said, they've taken sides in the culture war and on top of that if we have a democracy, the democratic processes should be that we can elect representatives who will share our point of view and vote those things into law.
  ~ Pat Robertson ~
• Between France and Senegal there's a history. There's a language that we both speak. There's a culture that we share and to which both of our peoples have contributed. But beyond our history, beyond our language, beyond the links that have united us for so long, what unites us today is the future.
  ~ Francois Hollande ~
• Between France and Senegal there's a history. There's a language that we both speak. There's a culture that we share and to which both of our peoples have contributed. But beyond our history, beyond our language, beyond the links that have united us for so long, what unites us today is the future.
  ~ Francois Hollande ~
• I think music in itself is healing. It's an explosive expression of humanity. It's something we are all touched by. No matter what culture we're from, everyone loves music.
  ~ Billy Joel ~
• More and more major businesses and industries are being run on software and delivered as online services - from movies to agriculture to national defense.
  ~ Marc Andreessen ~
• Our combination of great research universities, a pro-risk business culture, deep pools of innovation-seeking equity capital and reliable business and contract law is unprecedented and unparalleled in the world.
  ~ Marc Andreessen ~
• I'm concerned a little bit with the culture of celebrating the fundraise. My dad taught me that when you borrow money it's the worst day of your life.
  ~ Gary Vaynerchuk ~
• I'm concerned a little bit with the culture of celebrating the fundraise. My dad taught me that when you borrow money it's the worst day of your life.
  ~ Gary Vaynerchuk ~
• When you look at Japanese traditional architecture, you have to look at Japanese culture and its relationship with nature. You can actually live in a harmonious, close contact with nature - this very unique to Japan.
  ~ Tadao Ando ~
• When you look at Japanese traditional architecture, you have to look at Japanese culture and its relationship with nature. You can actually live in a harmonious, close contact with nature - this very unique to Japan.
  ~ Tadao Ando ~
• I hope that America as a whole, and especially its architects, will become more seriously involved in producing a new architectural culture that would bring the nation to the apex - where it has stood before - and lead the world.
  ~ Tadao Ando ~
• Spiritual space is lost in gaining convenience. I saw the need to create a mixture of Japanese spiritual culture and modern western architecture.
  ~ Tadao Ando ~
• When you look at Japanese traditional architecture, you have to look at Japanese culture and its relationship with nature. You can actually live in a harmonious, close contact with nature - this very unique to Japan.
  ~ Tadao Ando ~
• I plead for conservation of human culture, which is much more fragile than nature herself. We needn't destroy other cultures with the force of our own.
  ~ Arthur Erickson ~
• This great, though disastrous, culture can only change as we begin to stand off and see... the inveterate materialism which has become the model for cultures around the world.
  ~ Arthur Erickson ~
• I don't turn to greeting cards for wisdom and advice, but they are a fine reflection of the general drift of the culture.
  ~ Susan Orlean ~
• There's never been a culture that wasn't obsessed with food. The sort of sad thing is that our obsession is no longer with food, but with the price of food.
  ~ Jonathan Safran Foer ~
• Food is not just what we put in our mouths to fill up it is culture and identity. Reason plays some role in our decisions about food, but it's rarely driving the car.
  ~ Jonathan Safran Foer ~
• Food is not rational. Food is culture, habit, craving and identity.
  ~ Jonathan Safran Foer ~
• There's never been a culture that wasn't obsessed with food. The sort of sad thing is that our obsession is no longer with food, but with the price of food.
  ~ Jonathan Safran Foer ~
• Food is not just what we put in our mouths to fill up it is culture and identity. Reason plays some role in our decisions about food, but it's rarely driving the car.
  ~ Jonathan Safran Foer ~
• I think of art, at its most significant, as a DEW line, a Distant Early Warning system that can always be relied on to tell the old culture what is beginning to happen to it.
  ~ Marshall Mcluhan ~
• Art at its most significant is a Distant Early Warning System that can always be relied on to tell the old culture what is beginning to happen to it.
  ~ Marshall Mcluhan ~
• Doctors, dressed up in one professional costume or another, have been in busy practice since the earliest records of every culture on earth. It is hard to think of a more dependable or enduring occupation, harder still to imagine any future events leading to its extinction.
  ~ Lewis Thomas ~