Quotes on Culture

The Mind that lies fallow but a single Day, sprouts up in Follies that are only to be killed by a constant and assiduous Culture.

Author: Joseph Addison

The culture industry not so much adapts to the reactions of its customers as it counterfeits them.

Author: Theodor Adorno

The system of domination is founded on depriving nations of their true identity. It seeks to deprive nations of their culture, identity, self-confidence and in this way dominate them.

Author: Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

For hundreds of years Iranians have been migrating to many parts of the world. They took Islamic culture to other parts of the world and established it there.

Author: Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

Porno is the unconsciousness of culture, the libido of humanity.

Author: Masami Akita

Santa is our culture's only mythic figure truly believed in by a large percentage of the population. It's a fact that most of the true believers are under eight years old, and that's a pity.

Author: Chris Allsburg

There are a lot of wonderful things created in our culture that have been ignored that can speak to them.

Author: David Amram

Never tire yourself more than necessary, even if you have to found a culture on the fatigue of your bones.

Author: Antonin Artaud

Don't tire yourself more than need be, even at the price of founding a culture on the fatigue of your bones.

Author: Antonin Artaud

We've got a major problem in our culture, as it relates to the Internet and pornography and child pornography.

Author: John Ashcroft

When you talk about rap you have to understand that rap is part of the Hip-Hop culture.

Author: Afrika Bambaataa

I'm sad to say that stardom is a commodity in our culture.

Author: Christine Baranski

I don't really know much about pirates, or pirate culture. I'd be a contrarian pirate.

Author: Todd Barry

We need to have a culture that says 'the less energy you can use to be comfortable, the better off you are and the better you should feel about yourself'.

Author: Roscoe Bartlett

The adequate study of culture, our own and those on the opposite side of the globe, can press on to fulfillment only as we learn today from the humanities as well as from the scientists.

Author: Ruth Benedict

Culture is not a biologically transmitted complex.

Author: Ruth Benedict

We also have a cultural phenomenon: the emergence of a global culture, or of cultural globalization.

Author: Peter Berger

I don't think you can in any way export culture with guns or tanks.

Author: Bernardo Bertolucci

I make no claim that Jewish culture is superior to other cultures or that the Jewish song is better than the song of my neighbor.

Author: Theodore Bikel

And it's not only films, I'm pretty unaware of anything that's going on in popular culture right now.

Author: Brad Bird

Slowly but surely, we are acquiring that famous culture of democracy, which is our objective.

Author: Paul Biya

Hip Hop is thee dominant youth culture in the world right now.

Author: Kurtis Blow

Suppose we were able to share meanings freely without a compulsive urge to impose our view or conform to those of others and without distortion and self-deception. Would this not constitute a real revolution in culture.

Author: David Bohm

Partial culture runs to the ornate, extreme culture to simplicity.

Author: Christian Bovee

Basically the school system sets you up with what it wants to set you up with. They're really good at it. I think they're too good. Problem is, what they're doing is conditioning kids to merely accept the culture at hand. But the rebels won't accept it.

Author: Jack Bowman

Culture is a way of coping with the world by defining it in detail.

Author: Malcolm Bradbury

Sexual, racial, gender violence and other forms of discrimination and violence in a culture cannot be eliminated without changing culture.

Author: Charlotte Bunch

A man should be just cultured enough to be able to look with suspicion upon culture at first, not second hand.

Author: Samuel Butler

Culture is how biology responds and makes its living conditions better.

Author: C. Cherryh

There are works of literature whose influence is strong but indirect because it is mediated through the whole of the culture rather than immediately through imitation. Wordsworth is the case that comes to mind.

Author: J. Coetzee

My idols are Janis Joplin and Annie Lennox, who are neither of them from the typical pop culture.

Author: Natalie Cole

I think that the Japanese culture is one of the very few cultures left that is its own entity. They're just so traditional and so specific in their ways. It's kind of untouched, it's not Americanized.

Author: Toni Collette

Everybody gets too drunk sometimes; and even if everybody didn't, I have gotten too drunk sometimes. I haven't hurt anybody. In Ireland we drink a lot. It's part of our culture. I like drinking. I don't think it's a bad thing.

Author: Andrea Corr

When future archaeologists dig up the remains of California, they're going to find all of those gyms their scary-looking gym equipment, and they're going to assume that we were a culture obsessed with torture.

Author: Doug Coupland

Under popular culture's obsession with a naive inclusion, everything is O.K.

Author: Stanley Crouch

One very important aspect of our contemporary musical culture - some might say the supremely important aspect - is its extension in the historical and geographical senses to a degree unknown in the past.

Author: George Crumb

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.

Author: Hugh Dancy

I just think that some version of the past in our culture is going to rise up and become dominant.

Author: Peter Davison

I say it is indispensable to look ahead of and behind oneself in the present. If there is such a thing as tradition, and I believe there is, it can only exist in the sense of the most profound movements of culture.

Author: Robert Delaunay

Everything is arranged so that it be this way, this is what is called culture.

Author: Jacques Derrida

In the light of our culture, these are not unreasonable questions and tactics, but if once again, we try to see the lens through which we look, we can see that there is far too great an emphasis placed on the future.

Author: Alan Dundes

It's too hard for me to comment on the sorry state of our culture.

Author: Trevor Dunn

Pop culture is not about depth. It's about marketing, supply and demand, consumerism.

Author: Trevor Dunn

Culture is a little like dropping an Alka-Seltzer into a glass - you don't see it, but somehow it does something.

Author: Hans Enzensberger

According to this view, democracy is a product of western culture, and it cannot be applied to the Middle East which has a different cultural, religious, sociological and historical background.

Author: Recep Erdogan

But foremost, I do not subscribe to the view that Islamic culture and democracy cannot be reconciled.

Author: Recep Erdogan

Bankers cannot afford to be concerned with only the economic aspects of projects. There may be serious implications on the natural environment, the urban environment, on human culture.

Author: Arthur Erickson

Some of the substance of English words, I just don't understand at all because the culture's so strange to me.

Author: Chow Fat

You have to stay updated on trends, social things and pop culture, you need to stay with the times and keep evolving.

Author: Corey Feldman

Everything the Beats stood for was the opposite of the dominant culture today.

Author: Lawrence Ferlinghetti

I think everyone is very surprised at how 'Matrix' has become the pop culture phenomenon that it is.

Author: Laurence Fishburne

I'm proud of my Irish heritage and culture and this show will feature a lot of Irish dancing.

Author: Michael Flatley

I began demonstrating against serious culture. In hindsight, the actual course of events has been very humiliating for me, because no one picked up on the intellectual critique I made.

Author: Henry Flynt

The whole drive of western culture, the part of it which is serious, is towards an extreme objectification. It's carried to the point where the human subject is treated almost as if it's dirt in the works of a watch.

Author: Henry Flynt

Culture clash is terrific drama.

Author: Ken Follett

What becomes fascinating is the way the culture industry doesn't deny it and doesn't try to mitigate it, but tries to sell its products as a way of liberating oneself.

Author: Thomas Frank

Man's biological weakness is the condition of human culture.

Author: Erich Fromm

It is of the essence of imaginative culture that it transcends the limits both of the naturally possible and of the morally acceptable.

Author: Northrop Frye

The rapprochement of peoples is only possible when differences of culture and outlook are respected and appreciated rather than feared and condemned, when the common bond of human dignity is recognized as the essential bond for a peaceful world.

Author: J. Fulbright

The commencement speech is not, I think, a wholly satisfactory manifestation of our culture.

Author: John Galbraith

No culture can live if it attempts to be exclusive.

Author: Mohandas Gandhi

I don't think anyone could write about another culture and get it 100 percent accurate.

Author: Elizabeth George

Whoever controls the media, the images, controls the culture.

Author: Allen Ginsberg

I do like things that are not necessarily a reflection of what is considered the right thing by this culture. Somehow, promoting that status quo I find uninteresting.

Author: Crispin Glover

Hatred is something peculiar. You will always find it strongest and most violent where there is the lowest degree of culture.

Author: Johann Goethe

It is confusing, because in this culture we really don't have anything that corresponds to geisha.

Author: Arthur Golden

Ancient eschatological texts are actually maps of the inner territories of the psyche that seem to transcend race and culture and originate in the collective unconscious.

Author: Stanislav Grof

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

Author: George Grosz

I'm somebody who's really contributed to culture. Popular culture.

Author: Steve Guttenberg

Culture is not made up but something that evolves which is human.

Author: Edward Hall

Most of the monsters... are based on some sort of mythology. Every culture and even some geographical areas have monsters and mythology that is their own.

Author: Laurell Hamilton

So I've done my fair share of theater. I have also been very fortunate in that I've been able to come to New York two or three times a year just to see as many shows as possible. I think the live theater culture here is incredible.

Author: Neil Harris

But what is more, if we have succeeded in adding to the basic understanding of our universe and ourselves, we will have made a contribution to the totality of human culture.

Author: Haldan Hartline

If you see in any given situation only what everybody else can see, you can be said to be so much a representative of your culture that you are a victim of it.

Author: S. Hayakawa

Besides, it doesn't make any sense to have these characters living in the year 3000 when all their points of reference are from the pop culture of the 80's and the 90's.

Author: Joel Hodgson

Businesses often forget about the culture, and ultimately, they suffer for it because you can't deliver good service from unhappy employees.

Author: Tony Hsieh

The Chinese culture belongs not only to the Chinese but also to the whole world.

Author: Jinato Hu

If we are to preserve culture we must continue to create it.

Author: Johan Huizinga

The second fundamental feature of culture is that all culture has an element of striving.

Author: Johan Huizinga

Culture must have its ultimate aim in the metaphysical or it will cease to be culture.

Author: Johan Huizinga

Like every other good thing in this world, leisure and culture have to be paid for. Fortunately, however, it is not the leisured and the cultured who have to pay.

Author: Aldous Huxley

No occupation is so delightful to me as the culture of the earth, and no culture comparable to that of the garden.

Author: Thomas Jefferson

When I hear the word culture - I release the safety-catch of my Browning.

Author: Hanns Johst

The culture of the chairmanship is to be the dominant voice in the Fed. If you have a weak chairman... the markets could be very unsettled.

Author: David Jones

We are somehow natured, not just to reproduce, but for sociality and even for culture.

Author: Leon Kass

The notion that Jews are mythic creatures is well circulating in our culture.

Author: Steven Katz

I plant a lot of trees. I am a great believer in planting things for future generations. I loathe the now culture where you just live for today.

Author: Penelope Keith

There's been a lot of discussion about NASA culture and changing that. I think our culture has always been one of trying to do a very difficult job and do it well.

Author: Mark Kelly

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.

Author: Val Kilmer

We could see that he was a charismatic guy who jumps over the moon and is very competitive, but nobody could have predicted what he would become to our culture.

Author: Phil Knight

I don't see a film industry in Germany. They have a great TV culture, but how many German films are really exciting?

Author: Thomas Kretschmann

Listen: our culture is saturated with irony whether we know it or not.

Author: Barbara Kruger

We wanted to do a woman on a reality show because that's what's happening right now-it's part of our culture.

Author: Lisa Kudrow

Everybody blames the culture without taking responsibility.

Author: James Levine

I need to talk about Chinese culture. We have deep, strong philosophy and culture. I want to share some information, tell the worldwide audience.

Author: Jet Li

English is my second language, but in Hong Kong, they don't know that I'm from China. They think I'm from Hollywood because all the films they see are from here. China and Hong Kong are very different places, but they're starting to merge. Still the culture is very different.

Author: Bai Ling

Every culture loves scatological humour. That's always a favourite.

Author: Alex Linz

Well, news is anything that's interesting, that relates to what's happening in the world, what's happening in areas of the culture that would be of interest to your audience.

Author: Kurt Loder

Is it possible that literacy standards are falling because young Australians are growing up in a culture in which they can be entertained and informed, and in which they can communicate effectively, without having to master any but the most rudimentary literacy skills?

Author: Hugh Mackay

It is simply not part of my culture to preserve notes. I have never heard of a writer preserving his early drafts.

Author: Naguib Mahfouz

Culture's worth huge, huge risks. Without culture we're all totalitarian beasts.

Author: Norman Mailer

Rap is a gimmick, but I'm for the hip-hop, the culture.

Author: Method Man

Culture and possessions, there is the bourgeoisie for you.

Author: Thomas Mann

This is the culture you're raising your kids in. Don't be surprised if it blows up in your face.

Author: Marilyn Manson

I wouldn't be surprised if some day, they put the Simpsons in the Smithsonian. It's become part of our culture, those characters.

Author: Joe Mantegna

It is a sure sign that a culture has reached a dead end when it is no longer intrigued by its myths.

Author: Greil Marcus

Rastafari not a culture, it's a reality.

Author: Bob Marley

I gave up my base in popular culture when I left the Tonight Show.

Author: Branford Marsalis

Just learning to think in another language allows you to see your own culture in a better viewpoint.

Author: Gates McFadden

The mathematics of rhythm are universal. They don't belong to any particular culture.

Author: John McLaughlin

A few words of Hindi appear here or there, but it's all Urdu. I feel that if the popular culture, which is what Hindi films are, uses Urdu, it's not going to diminish.

Author: Ismail Merchant

From 1962 to 1965, the guitar became this icon of youth culture, thanks mostly to the Beatles.

Author: Pat Metheny

The relentless pressures of the so-called marketplace have distorted all our culture industries.

Author: Mark Miller

When you're trying to pass on the best of the stuff you're culling to what should be a hungry culture but you have it diminished... that's kind of disappointing.

Author: Joni Mitchell

The more decadent a culture gets, the more they have a need for what they don't have at all, which is innocence, so you end up with kiddie porn and a perverse obsession with youth.

Author: Joni Mitchell

The tunes, rhythms, and messages are drawn mainly from secular culture.

Author: Richard Morris

There are lots of stories about my culture that I think bring a whole other perspective to who we are and where we have been and how we got here that I think need to be done.

Author: Joe Morton

I think it talks about that there needs to be some proactive attack against drugs infiltrating our culture.

Author: Joe Morton

The vast material displacements the machine has made in our physical environment are perhaps in the long run less important than its spiritual contributions to our culture.

Author: Lewis Mumford

I'm a British intern going in. I'm hoping that John will just kind of tackle it from who this person is and what she's about rather than trying to go in on her culture. We need to move a step forward than that.

Author: Parminder Nagra

I'm not allowing my perspective to be dictated by the dominant culture.

Author: Holly Near

Well, I think they're all basically the same story. Every culture in the world has them. When you strip it down and analyze it, it's the young man or girl who goes through a trial or ordeal and hits a very low ebb but manages to get guidance from a Merlin type figure.

Author: Liam Neeson

Culture is the widening of the mind and of the spirit.

Author: Jawaharlal Nehru

In Japan, Australia, and England there is such a strong youth culture.

Author: Marc Newson

And where I grew up in Australia, surfing was a part of culture.

Author: Marc Newson

I'm interested in youth culture and popular culture.

Author: Marc Newson

If you do not breathe through writing, if you do not cry out in writing, or sing in writing, then don't write, because our culture has no use for it.

Author: Anais Nin

Diligent as one must be in learning, one must be as diligent in forgetting; otherwise the process is one of pedantry, not culture.

Author: Albert Nock

Concerning culture as a process, one would say that it means learning a great many things and then forgetting them; and the forgetting is as necessary as the learning.

Author: Albert Nock

Learning has always been made much of, but forgetting has always been deprecated; therefore pedantry has pretty well established itself throughout the modern world at the expense of culture.

Author: Albert Nock

Today it's not culture; it's box office.

Author: Alex North

I think pot should be legalized, but I think the promotion of party culture is irresponsible.

Author: Krist Novoselic

I believe that in a great city, or even in a small city or a village, a great theater is the outward and visible sign of an inward and probable culture.

Author: Laurence Olivier

I came to office promising major ethics reform to end the culture of self-dealing. And today, that ethics reform is a law. While I was at it, I got rid of a few things in the governor's office that I didn't believe our citizens should have to pay for. That luxury jet was over-the-top. I put it on eBay.

Author: Sarah Palin

There has to be innate circuitry that does the learning, that creates the culture, that acquires the culture, and that responds to socialization.

Author: Steven Pinker

It's a song that we sing after we win a Test match. We sing it after every one-day series win. It's been passed down through the generations. It's the culture of the Australian team.

Author: Ricky Ponting

It is impossible to fuse totally with a culture for which you feel a measure of antagonism.

Author: Chaim Potok

Russia is a part of European culture. Therefore, it is with difficulty that I imagine NATO as an enemy.

Author: Vladimir Putin

Every aspect of Western culture needs a new code of ethics - a rational ethics - as a precondition of rebirth.

Author: Ayn Rand

After 9/11, we realized that all these silly culture wars, and arguing about rock lyrics... who cares? You know, we, for some reason, remembered what our real problems are.

Author: Frank Rich

Dancing was always part of my culture growing up in Barbados. When I shot my 1st video I worked really hard with my choreographer to perfect the routines.

Author: Rihanna

Regardless of whether you speak the language or are familiar with a culture, the picture should hold up.

Author: Herb Ritts

Black culture is something I don't relate to much at all.

Author: Dennis Rodman

I'm more of a culture hummingbird.

Author: Jai Rodriguez

Nevada has a world-class economy. It will only build a world-class culture with world-class research universities coupled with the Desert Research Institute.

Author: James Rogers

Reality TV is sleazy, it is manipulative. It is as momentary as anything in popular culture.

Author: Morley Safer

The cornerstone of the political correctness that dominates campus culture is radical feminism.

Author: Phyllis Schlafly

So we have to be careful because if you don't protect your culture you won't have it for very long.

Author: Yahoo Serious

In a kind of a way there's a bit of that happening now so we have to be careful to preserve our culture.

Author: Yahoo Serious

In such diffused changes of culture two factors are necessary: contact and understanding.

Author: Hu Shih