It's too hard for me to comment on the sorry state of our culture.
~By Trevor Dunn ~
If you want to change the culture, you will have to start by changing the organization.
~By Mary Douglas ~
A people without the knowledge of their past history, origin and culture is like a tree without roots.
~By Marcus Garvey ~
German is more familiar now since I live part of the year in Rome and part in the German part of Switzerland. But it's not difficult to sing in German; it's difficult to feel in German. This takes time. It's a culture.
~By Cecilia Bartoli ~
My idols are Janis Joplin and Annie Lennox, who are neither of them from the typical pop culture.
~By Natalie Cole ~
Labor is the source of all wealth and all culture.
~By Ferdinand Lassalle ~
I'm proud of my Irish heritage and culture and this show will feature a lot of Irish dancing.
~By Michael Flatley ~
Historians will have to face the fact that natural selection determined the evolution of cultures in the same manner as it did that of species.
~By Konrad Lorenz ~
It is simply not part of my culture to preserve notes. I have never heard of a writer preserving his early drafts.
~By Naguib Mahfouz ~
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."
~By Ludwig Wittgenstein ~
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.
~By Frank Rich ~
But having said that, what's happening with campaign finance reform and our political culture is devastating.
~By Robert McChesney ~
We are the meeting place, an entity that's trying to connect faith and culture.
~By William P. Leahy ~
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.
~By Maynard James Keenan ~
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 ~
You're a Catholic in Italy when you're born, it's unthinkable to stop being Catholic. You just take the rules a lot more seriously, because it pervades your culture.
~By Andrew Greeley ~
If we are to achieve a richer culture, rich in contrasting values, we must recognize the whole gamut of human potentialities, and so weave a less arbitrary social fabric, one in which each diverse human gift will find a fitting place.
~By Margaret Mead ~
The concept that an artist would be revered by popular culture is an immediate dismissal of his relevance as an artist.
~By Thomas Kinkade ~
American culture is torn between our long romance with violence and our terror of the devastation wrought by war and crime and environmental havoc.
~By Katherine Dunn ~
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 ~
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.
~By Marshall McLuhan ~
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.
~By Toni Collette ~
A man should be just cultured enough to be able to look with suspicion upon culture at first, not second hand.
~By Samuel Butler ~
I don't really know much about pirates, or pirate culture. I'd be a contrarian pirate.
~By Todd Barry ~
It's a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more money writing or talking about his art than he can by practicing it.
~By W. H. Auden ~
Whoever controls the media, the images, controls the culture.
~By Allen Ginsberg ~
Everybody blames the culture without taking responsibility.
~By James Levine ~
Debate and divergence of views can only enrich our history and culture.
~By Ibrahim Babangida ~
Incidentally, one of the most worrying problems in the impact of Western modernity on traditional culture is that it quite rapidly communicates its own indifference or anxiety or even hostility about age and ageing.
~By Rowan D. Williams ~
It seems to me that many writers, by virtue of environments of culture, art and education, slip into writing because of their environments.
~By Robert E. Howard ~
It was this society and culture that among other things - including economic opportunities here and repression in Europe - attracted subsequent generations of immigrants to this country.
~By Samuel P. Huntington ~
Over the past several years, all of us as Canadians, and as members of the North American cultural and economic environment, have been to a greater or lesser extent party to a significant attitudinal change towards our culture.
~By Alex Campbell ~
Because some people have sex with people of the same sex, an entire culture has been created, broadly speaking, out of oppression. Which in a rational world would not be an issue.
~By Neil Tennant ~
Culture is a little like dropping an Alka-Seltzer into a glass - you don't see it, but somehow it does something.
~By Hans Magnus Enzensberger ~
I have always said there is only one thing that can bring our nation down - our dependence on foreign countries for food and energy. Agriculture is the backbone of our economy.
~By John Salazar ~
The return to the Organization of the United States of America, the bearers of a great and diversified democratic culture that has inspired many other peoples.
~By Carlo Azeglio Ciampi ~
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.
~By Thomas Frank ~
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 ~
Therefore reinforcing a stereotype, therefore thinking that the entire Indian culture is just made of people that are against their children's decisions.
~By Parminder Nagra ~
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.
~By Sarah Palin ~
So American culture is itself a hybrid and lends itself to use in other people's hybrids.
~By Todd Gitlin ~
You get below the Mason-Dixon line and you have some of the best music, culture, the two races, the literature, and it's so rich.
~By Robert Duvall ~
When I'm out hustling up new industries, I can offer Louisiana's many selling points. We have unmatched natural resources, a unique culture and fantastic workers.
~By Kathleen Blanco ~
I have observed, too, that the people of the many countries that I have visited are showing an ever increasing interest in the classical and traditional music of their own cultures.
~By George Crumb ~
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.
~By Ruth Benedict ~
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 ~
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.
~By George Crumb ~
A lot of what used to be known as gay culture - broadly speaking, homoeroticism and being camp - has been brought into mainstream culture. I think we should be moving to an era where it's just sex.
~By Neil Tennant ~
We cannot live by power, and a culture that seeks to live by it becomes brutal and sterile. But we can die without it.
~By Max Lerner ~
When we, through our educational culture, through the media, through the entertainment culture, give our children the impression that human beings cannot control their passions, we are telling them, in effect, that human beings cannot be trusted with freedom.
~By Alan Keyes ~
Education must, be not only a transmission of culture but also a provider of alternative views of the world and a strengthener of the will to explore them.
~By Jerome S. Bruner ~
As our language wanes and dies, the golden legends of the far-off centuries fade and pass away. No one sees their influence upon culture; no one sees their educational power.
~By Douglas Hyde ~
This is our culture, and I don't care who the musician is, if he avoids black people, then he is scared of something. He doesn't have confidence in himself or else he doesn't believe in what he's doing.
~By Betty Carter ~
Clinton feels a profound alienation from the Washington culture here, and I happen to agree with him.
~By Bob Woodward ~
Russia is a part of European culture. Therefore, it is with difficulty that I imagine NATO as an enemy.
~By Vladimir Putin ~
All objects, all phases of culture are alive. They have voices. They speak of their history and interrelatedness. And they are all talking at once!
~By Camille Paglia ~
Science, for hundreds of years, has spanned the differences between cultures and between countries.
~By Laurel Clark ~
I lead no party; I follow no leader. I have given the best part of my life to careful study of Islam, its law and polity, its culture, its history and its literature.
~By Muhammad Iqbal ~
In microbiology the roles of mutation and selection in evolution are coming to be better understood through the use of bacterial cultures of mutant strains.
~By Edward Lawrie Tatum ~
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 ~
We're warriors, this culture, and we're very puritanical about sex and very embracing about violence and I don't know why that is.
~By Mark Ruffalo ~
Culture is how biology responds and makes its living conditions better.
~By C. J. Cherryh ~
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.
~By Neil Patrick Harris ~
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.
~By Phil Knight ~
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.
~By Rihanna ~
The 1970s, the decade of my teenage years, was a transitional period in American youth culture.
~By Eric Allin Cornell ~
I'm still very aware of the violence in our culture, more so than other people. I know where it comes from when someone is trying to suppress someone else, sometimes they fight back.
~By Jack Bowman ~
In Old Europe and Ancient Crete, women were respected for their roles in the discovery of agriculture and for inventing the arts of weaving and pottery making.
~By Carol P. Christ ~
Am I Latin? Am I American? What the hell am I? I love my culture and I'm very proud of my culture.
~By America Ferrera ~
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 ~
You have to be strong enough to say if the culture doesn't work, don't buy it.
~By Mitch Albom ~
Diligent as one must be in learning, one must be as diligent in forgetting; otherwise the process is one of pedantry, not culture.
~By Albert J. Nock ~
The art and culture that is New York, communications, finance, all these things help make up New York. The rest of the country should be happy that we are what we are.
~By David Dinkins ~
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.
~By Barry Commoner ~
In Japan, Australia, and England there is such a strong youth culture.
~By Marc Newson ~
For years all I seemed to be doing was lobbying politicians and others to persuade them that European culture needed movies, and that we had to protect it.
~By Wim Wenders ~
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.
~By Steve Ballmer ~
America is not just a democracy, it represents a certain culture of competitive mobility and personality aspirations, politics is not merely a clash of interests, but a clash of dreams.
~By David Brooks ~
No, I'm not a comic book guy. I'm pretty fascinated with the subculture though and I do think that the world of comic books is such a natural transition into film.
~By Donal Logue ~
Most American Jews came from the lower middle classes, and therefore they brought with them not a lot of Jewish culture. The American Jewish story starts with Ellis Island, and the candy store in the Bronx.
~By Arthur Hertzberg ~
Women are the victims of this patriarchal culture, but they are also its carriers. Let us keep in mind that every oppressive man was raised in the confines of his mother's home.
~By Shirin Ebadi ~
So I feel a responsibility to help first-time film-makers in Brazil, but also to increase the dialogue between film cultures which are really wonderful and so much closer to us than what we do see on our screens.
~By Walter Salles ~
The challenge is the culture. You have to have a vision for the BBC-it can't merely be that it's big and has a place in the market.
~By Jonathan Dimbleby ~
My wife wanted my children to have some Chinese culture and education. She believes the children need to learn two languages and two cultures.
~By Jet Li ~
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 ~
We should never denigrate any other culture but rather help people to understand the relationship between their own culture and the dominant culture. When you understand another culture or language, it does not mean that you have to lose your own culture.
~By Edward T. Hall ~
Being an American is such a rich environment, because there's so many people from other countries and cultures, and through that you're able to see other people's experiences.
~By Rick Yune ~
You know, face painting in non-Western cultures is a sign of collectivism, is a sign of one representing the community, it's not unique at all.
~By Joseph Jarman ~
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.
~By Mahmoud Ahmadinejad ~
What 'multiculturalism' boils down to is that you can praise any culture in the world except Western culture - and you cannot blame any culture in the world except Western culture.
~By Thomas Sowell ~
At the descriptive level, certainly, you would expect different cultures to develop different sorts of ethics and obviously they have; that doesn't mean that you can't think of overarching ethical principles you would want people to follow in all kinds of places.
~By Peter Singer ~
Sometimes in the black culture, being raised as an independent woman is misconstrued as someone who doesn't need a man. I think that's wrong. I think we all need someone.
~By Boris Kodjoe ~
I'm absolutely obsessed with The Jesus And Mary Chain and Patti Smith, but I'm a massive pop fan. I love pop culture, It's a total reflection of the zeitgeist.
~By Siobhan Fahey ~
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 ~
The moment you give up your principles, and your values, you are dead, your culture is dead, your civilization is dead. Period.
~By Oriana Fallaci ~
You can't walk alone. Many have given the illusion, but none have really walked alone. Man is not made that way. Each man is bedded in his people, their history, their culture, and their values.
~By Peter Abrahams ~
I'm a culture vulture, and I just want to experience it all.
~By Debbie Harry ~
But again, we, I think, over the years have set the example for a lot of nations that may not have had the same values, the same type of coming out of the same culture that we as Americans have and enjoy. But we can be an example, a role model for them.
~By Hugh Shelton ~
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.
~By J. William Fulbright ~
Of the many forms of false culture, a premature converse with abstractions is perhaps the most likely to prove fatal to the growth of a masculine vigour of intellect.
~By George Boole ~
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