Civilization is a youth with a molotov cocktail in his hand. Culture is the Soviet tank or L.A. cop that guns him down.
~By Edward Abbey ~
After learning the language and culture of the Chinese people, these Jesuits began to establish contacts with the young intellectuals of the country.
~By Hu Shih ~
There's so much plastic in this culture that vinyl leopard skin is becoming an endangered synthetic.
~By Lily Tomlin ~
The type of fig leaf which each culture employs to cover its social taboos offers a twofold description of its morality. It reveals that certain unacknowledged behavior exists and it suggests the form that such behavior takes.
~By Freda Adler ~
I would just like to get him to think about these things; whether what's happening in Iraq is promoting the culture of life. The worry is that he is so certain that he know where he's going to lead the country.
~By Peter Singer ~
Not so much in Canada, but certainly in the US, as I'm sure you know, money is all, and if they can get another 26 programs of the same thing even though it advances the culture or those actor's careers not at all it doesn't matter.
~By Rowan Atkinson ~
I'm a culture vulture, and I just want to experience it all.
~By Debbie Harry ~
The lowest form of popular culture - lack of information, misinformation, disinformation, and a contempt for the truth or the reality of most people's lives - has overrun real journalism. Today, ordinary Americans are being stuffed with garbage.
~By Carl Bernstein ~
You have to work at creating your own culture.
~By Mitch Albom ~
The mission of the press is to spread culture while destroying the attention span.
~By Karl Kraus ~
My father was a diplomat for part of his life and I jumped from country to country and culture to culture.
~By Walter Salles ~
Well, one hopes that if you're really related to the core of your particular culture, you have profound commitments to it, and that you are aware of how much you can strain it before you do violence to its essential nature.
~By Chaim Potok ~
When we were engaged in the problems of survival we had no time to have anything to do with culture.
~By Nursultan Nazarbayev ~
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.
~By Henry Flynt ~
I need to talk about Chinese culture. We have deep, strong philosophy and culture. I want to share some information, tell the worldwide audience.
~By Jet Li ~
We fully support the strikes against terrorist targets, not against the country, not against the culture, not against a religion, but against an enemy of them all.
~By Ricardo Lagos ~
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.
~By Theodore Bikel ~
How it shaped my perception is this: I have become so indelibly identified as a character in pop culture that it has forced me to go deeply within myself to get a very very rock solid sense, to myself, of who I am.
~By Thomas Wilson ~
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.
~By John Corigliano ~
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.
~By David Bohm ~
My idols are Janis Joplin and Annie Lennox, who are neither of them from the typical pop culture.
~By Natalie Cole ~
Mr. Speaker, genocide is the most potent of all crimes against humanity because it is an effort to systematically wipe out a people and a culture as well as individual lives.
~By Jerry Costello ~
The standardization of world culture, with local popular or traditional forms driven out or dumbed down to make way for American television, American music, food, clothes and films, has been seen by many as the very heart of globalization.
~By Fredric Jameson ~
The question is, will we continue to fight what may be a rearguard action to defend universal literacy as a central goal of our education system, or are we bold enough to see what's actually happening to our culture?
~By Hugh Mackay ~
When I go to Japan and do shows I play for 1,000 to 1,500 people. I like a lot about Japan. Their popular culture and mass commercialization appeals to me.
~By Matthew Sweet ~
So instead of beating myself up for being fat, I think it's a miracle that I laugh every day and walk through my life with pride, because our culture is unrelenting when it comes to large people.
~By Camryn Manheim ~
The Muslims refuse our culture and try to impose their culture on us. I reject them, and this is not only my duty toward my culture-it is toward my values, my principles, my civilization.
~By Oriana Fallaci ~
It is of the essence of imaginative culture that it transcends the limits both of the naturally possible and of the morally acceptable.
~By Northrop Frye ~
The Bible was written in several languages, embraces many literary forms, and reflects cultures very different from our own. These are important considerations for properly understanding the Bible in its context.
~By Troy Perry ~
It's an old ploy of the bourgeoisie. They keep a standing 'art' to defend their collapsing culture.
~By George Grosz ~
Some of the substance of English words, I just don't understand at all because the culture's so strange to me.
~By Chow Yun Fat ~
War seems to be one of the most salutary phenomena for the culture of human nature; and it is not without regret that I see it disappearing more and more from the scene.
~By Karl Wilhelm Von Humboldt ~
I was immediately smitten with an attraction to this culture, not in the sense of high culture but of the basic way people behaved towards one another.
~By Harry Mathews ~
I get most of my news from the Jon Stewart Daily Show. It's the most level commentary you can find. You have to laugh, because it's all so true. It's the closest thing to a counterculture.
~By John Mayall ~
Everybody blames the culture without taking responsibility.
~By James Levine ~
Listen: our culture is saturated with irony whether we know it or not.
~By Barbara Kruger ~
It's no accident that my first novel was called Americana. This was a private declaration of independence, a statement of my intention to use the whole picture, the whole culture.
~By Don DeLillo ~
Kinsey was trying to study sex scientifically, get rid of the overlay of culture and religion.
~By Bill Condon ~
Debate and divergence of views can only enrich our history and culture.
~By Ibrahim Babangida ~
If you put this in the context of Detroit in '64 or '65, the economy was booming. Everybody had jobs and there was a whole nightclub culture where bands could work.
~By Wayne Kramer ~
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.
~By Parminder Nagra ~
Being Indian is not blood as much as it is culture.
~By Tony Hillerman ~
Our laws are a reflection of our culture. Our culture does not condone the torture of innocent and defenseless creatures. And we as a society believe all God's creatures should be treated humanely.
~By Joe Moore ~
You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.
~By Ray Bradbury ~
Culture means, I think, that you have widened your experience enough through reading and through being a little bit thoughtful about these things that it has changed your outlook in some ways. And not necessarily made you a better human being but made you see things.
~By Joseph Epstein ~
Well, if you look at all of the cultures in America, this is a great opportunity for us to really get acquainted with the rest of the world. America is the only place you can do that, but we don't have sense enough to take advantage of that.
~By Erykah Badu ~
Man's survival, from the time of Adam and Eve until the invention of agriculture, must have been precarious because of his inability to ensure his food supply.
~By Norman Borlaug ~
If you keep up with pop culture, everybody knows the joke.
~By Shawn Wayans ~
What I love the most about modeling is that it opens you a lot of different doors of opportunities and takes you to many different places, which then put you in touch with various people and cultures.
~By Karolina Kurkova ~
The tango is really a combination of many cultures, though it eventually became the national music of Argentina.
~By Yo-Yo Ma ~
At Cardozo, study of law is part of a larger culture. You can get a law degree and make a good living, but it is best that you do that having studied the discipline for its own inherent merit, because you love studying.
~By Norman Lamm ~
Dying people in pre-industrial cultures typically died in the context of an extended family, clan, or tribe.
~By Stanislav Grof ~
Company cultures are like country cultures. Never try to change one. Try, instead, to work with what you've got.
~By Peter Drucker ~
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.
~By Albert J. Nock ~
If a church offers no truth that is not available in the general culture - in, for instance, the editorials of the New York Times or, for that matter, of National Review - there is not much reason to pay it attention.
~By Richard John Neuhaus ~
The myths underlying our culture and underlying our common sense have not taught us to feel identical with the universe, but only parts of it, only in it, only confronting it - aliens.
~By Alan Watts ~
Texas has been hit especially hard this year by a continuing drought, threatening high winds and increasingly destructive range fires. Simply, these conditions have lead to extremely adverse conditions in the agriculture industry.
~By Michael McCaul ~
In my view the European culture carries a very heavy responsibility for the creation of Israel... it is a product of both British and Stalin's anti- Semitism, but the British never faced their own complicity in its construction.
~By Tom Paulin ~
I was delighted to become a popular-culture reference point. I'm still delighted about it actually, and I still find it to be weird.
~By Colin Firth ~
The question was heatedly debated of how much Western culture should be brought into China.
~By Chen Ning Yang ~
If most American cities are about the consumption of culture, Los Angeles and New York are about the production of culture - not only national culture but global culture.
~By Barbara Kruger ~
It's typical of Italian culture that we only start to feel emotional about something when we have the possibility to see it in front of us. By February, Italy will have Olympic fever.
~By Alberto Tomba ~
By ignoring a lot of American culture you can write more interesting stories. Unfortunately, if you were writing about America as it is, you'd be writing about a lot of people sitting in front of television sets.
~By Richard Russo ~
They're not put on earth to be martyrs; they have to want to come out. It depends on your culture, where you work, where you live. Each person's circumstances are unique.
~By Billie Jean King ~
I grew up on a farm, and we didn't have cable and only limited radio stations, so I wasn't inundated with culture the way people in other parts of the country were. But I was really interested in it.
~By Chuck Klosterman ~
Even before Europe was united in an economic level or was conceived at the level of economic interests and trade, it was culture that united all the countries of Europe. The arts, literature, music are the connecting link of Europe.
~By Dario Fo ~
If we are to preserve culture we must continue to create it.
~By Johan Huizinga ~
It is just not enough to strengthen the secret services for the fight against terrorism but it's also necessary to advance dialogue between cultures.
~By Horst Koehler ~
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.
~By Robert Delaunay ~
Jerusalem is a festival and a lamentation. Its song is a sigh across the ages, a delicate, robust, mournful psalm at the great junction of spiritual cultures.
~By David K. Shipler ~
In the last James Bond movie, the villain was a culture captain, a tycoon of culture, a Murdoch figure. It's not as if people don't know what is going on.
~By Thomas Frank ~
The culture of independent film criticism has totally gone down the drain and this seems to come with the territory of the consumer age that we are now living in.
~By Wim Wenders ~
Culture is the arts elevated to a set of beliefs.
~By Thomas Wolfe ~
I had been an eyewitness to a truly historic moment in American pop culture.
~By Jean Shepherd ~
Art is such an important part of our culture.
~By Rosanna Arquette ~
Well, it's an adventure story, and a Bildungsroman, of course, but there was also the intention to describe a culture that had been seen in rather narrow terms.
~By John M. Ford ~
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.
~By Anais Nin ~
Not a single piece of material culture - not a single object - has been found at Giza that can be interpreted to come from a lost civilization.
~By Zahi Hawass ~
During the many centuries that magic, here on this planet, was presumed to have worked, there were at least as many theories as to how magic worked as there were cultures and religions.
~By Lynn Abbey ~
Bring diversity back to agriculture. That's what made it work in the first place.
~By David R. Brower ~
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.
~By Anna Quindlen ~
You know, when it was done originally, they always had to fight to keep it going at the end of each season. Now, The Odd Couple has become part of our language and culture.
~By Brett Somers ~
What can we say about a marketing culture that so openly feeds and colludes with obsession? The Disney empire has developed this to an unprecedented degree of professionalism.
~By Rowan Williams ~
I'm very influenced by landscapes, not so much the way places look as the way the names sound. In this country we've got so many cultures, and the place names - the Spanish names and the Indian names, which are so incredibly musical.
~By Emmylou Harris ~
Most people have a passive relationship with music and clothes, with culture. But music was my first contact with anything creative. Music is it, as far as I'm concerned.
~By Martin Freeman ~
The highest possible stage in moral culture is when we recognize that we ought to control our thoughts.
~By Charles Darwin ~
Burroughs was never really that pleased with the way popular culture and society treated his character. He tried to make a few movies of his own as a result, but they weren't very good.
~By Brendan Fraser ~
Ancestor worship, or filial piety so characteristic of Asian cultures, for example, does not really resonate with Americans who favor children, not grandparents.
~By Alan Dundes ~
Whenever I hear the word culture, I reach for my Browning!
~By Hermann Goering ~
Man's biological weakness is the condition of human culture.
~By Erich Fromm ~
Finally, I would like to remind record companies that they have a cultural responsibility to give the buying public great music. Milking a trend to death is not contributing to culture and is ultimately not profitable.
~By Tony Visconti ~
More students have a better knowledge of pop culture than of the Constitution.
~By Charles Bowen ~
The greatest advances of civilization, whether in architecture or painting, in science and literature, in industry or agriculture, have never come from centralized government.
~By Milton Friedman ~
Poverty is multidimensional. It extends beyond money incomes to education, health care, political participation and advancement of one's own culture and social organisation.
~By Atal Bihari Vajpayee ~
Goth culture, as mired in the past as it is, even it goes through changes, so Goth when I was growing up is not what it is now. When I think of Goth culture as it is at the moment I think of mall culture.
~By Jhonen Vasquez ~
There's a general culture in this country to cut all the trees. It makes me so angry because everyone is cutting and no one is planting.
~By Wangari Maathai ~
Labor is the source of all wealth and all culture.
~By Ferdinand Lassalle ~
Our culture runs on coffee and gasoline, the first often tasting like the second.
~By Edward Abbey ~
Because the stuff that they feed kids now, they'll have a bunch of idiots in the next millennium as far as art and culture is concerned.
~By Billy Higgins ~
God exists, if only in the form of a meme with high survival value, or infective power, in the environment provided by human culture.
~By Richard Dawkins ~
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