The various forms of intellectual activity which together make up the culture of an age, move for the most part from different starting-points, and by unconnected roads.
~By Walter Pater ~
Now they're attracted to one another, but repelled by their ethnic origins, so that there was something to overcome. They had to overcome their own prejudices, which had been imposed by the culture - their own shame at being Mexican and Italian.
~By Robert Towne ~
Because of technological limits, there is a certain amount of food that we can produce per acre. If we were to have intensive greenhouse agriculture, we could have much higher production.
~By Ralph Merkle ~
Everything is arranged so that it be this way, this is what is called culture.
~By Jacques Derrida ~
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 ~
I have made more friends for American culture than the State Department. Certainly I have made fewer enemies, but that isn't very difficult.
~By Arthur Miller ~
The real 1960s began on the afternoon of November 22, 1963. It came to seem that Kennedy's murder opened some malign trap door in American culture, and the wild bats flapped out.
~By Lance Morrow ~
I see no reason for giving the capital employed in agriculture greater protection than the capital vested in other branches of trade, manufacture, or commerce.
~By Joseph Hume ~
Culture is the tacit agreement to let the means of subsistence disappear behind the purpose of existence. Civilization is the subordination of the latter to the former.
~By Karl Kraus ~
The gays like 'Project Runway' because it's a fashion, and the gays are into fashion and into design. It's a creative industry, and most of the gays are pretty creative, in general. That's just like the culture. We're not all into politics necessarily. We're more into the creative environment. I also think Heidi is a big draw. The boys love Heidi and think she's so fabulous. I just think it's a glitzy, fun show, and there are also always lots of gay boys on it, and, you know, that's fun.
~By Christian Siriano ~
Man's biological weakness is the condition of human culture.
~By Erich Fromm ~
At times in my life, I have been utterly lonely. At other times, I've had disgusting infectious diseases. Try admitting these things in our culture.
~By Martha Beck ~
Debate and divergence of views can only enrich our history and culture.
~By Ibrahim Babangida ~
I had been an eyewitness to a truly historic moment in American pop culture.
~By Jean Shepherd ~
And so popular culture raises issues that are very important, actually, in the country I think. You get issues of the First Amendment rights and issues of drug use, issues of AIDS, and things like that all arise naturally out of pop culture.
~By Kurt Loder ~
Modern culture is constantly growing more objective. Its tissues grow more and more out of impersonal energies, and absorb less and less the subjective entirety of the individual.
~By Georg Simmel ~
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 ~
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 ~
I am one of the writers who wish to create serious works of literature which dissociate themselves from those novels which are mere reflections of the vast consumer cultures of Tokyo and the subcultures of the world at large.
~By Kenzaburo Oe ~
You have to open your mind. I like the ability to express myself in a deep way. It's the closest music to our humanity - it's like a folk music that rises up out of a culture.
~By Sonny Terry ~
The diffusion of a universalist culture and of a pedagogy of peace appears more than ever to be the path that we must follow for the salvation of all nations on earth.
~By Carlo Azeglio Ciampi ~
Lives have been altered in fundamental ways, and later, after they acquire a more complete understanding of what goals are actually attainable, many are left facing a lot of pain and frustration. And yet, there's no culture of complaint.
~By Garry Trudeau ~
When a marriage culture fails, sexual desire no longer unites; instead it fragments.
~By Maggie Gallagher ~
What most people in our culture mean by being lovable is essentially a mixture between being popular and having sex appeal.
~By Erich Fromm ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
The tunes, rhythms, and messages are drawn mainly from secular culture.
~By Richard Morris ~
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 ~
Of course, nobody would deny the importance of human beings for theological thinking, but the time span of history that theologians think about is a few thousand years of human culture rather than the fifteen billion years of the history of the universe.
~By John Polkinghorne ~
Our farmers and ranchers have never faced as many problems as they do today with drought, range fires, high gas prices and an ever tightening budget on agriculture subsidies.
~By Michael McCaul ~
Pop culture hales you and wants you to fail.
~By Aisha Tyler ~
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.
~By Anne Sullivan ~
No occupation is so delightful to me as the culture of the earth, and no culture comparable to that of the garden.
~By Thomas Jefferson ~
Agriculture was the first manufacturing industry in America and represents the best of all of us.
~By Zack Wamp ~
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.
~By Lewis Mumford ~
As a culture I see us as presently deprived of subtleties. The music is loud, the anger is elevated, sex seems lacking in sweetness and privacy.
~By Shelley Berman ~
I always feel more comfortable in chaotic surroundings. I don't know why that is. I think order is dull. There is something about this kind of desire for order, particularly in Anglo Saxon cultures, that drive out this ability for the streets to become a really exotic, amorphous, chaotic, organic place where ideas can, basically, develop.
~By Malcolm Mclaren ~
The notion that Jews are mythic creatures is well circulating in our culture.
~By Steven T. Katz ~
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?
~By James Hillman ~
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 ~
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 ~
When certain branches of the economy become obsolete, as in the case of the steel industry, not only do jobs disappear, which is obviously a terrible social hardship, but certain cultures also disappear.
~By Peter L. Berger ~
Religion is one dimension of culture, a transcendent element of it.
~By Francis Arinze ~
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 ~
Every major religion today is a winner in the Darwinian struggle waged among cultures, and none ever flourished by tolerating its rivals.
~By E. O. Wilson ~
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 ~
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 ~
So uncritically do we accept the idea of property in culture that we don't even question when the control of that property removes our ability, as a people, to develop our culture democratically.
~By Lawrence Lessig ~
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.
~By J. M. Coetzee ~
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 ~
And it is this sense that some of us have to contribute to the culture, to the society in ways that may hurt financially, so what? We do it because we are born to do it, we feel we have no other choice and so be it.
~By Gunther Schuller ~
American officials have bent over backwards to show how sensitive they are to Muslim culture. It didn't seem very effective. They seem to be worried about winning the respect of other people.
~By Tucker Carlson ~
Culture is a way of coping with the world by defining it in detail.
~By Malcolm Bradbury ~
English culture is basically homosexual in the sense that the men only really care about other men.
~By Germaine Greer ~
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?
~By Hugh Mackay ~
The cornerstone of the political correctness that dominates campus culture is radical feminism.
~By Phyllis Schlafly ~
Blacks who have not succumbed to the victim culture have been, are, and will be doing quite well - all on their own, without handouts, affirmative action, and other patronizing measures.
~By Tammy Bruce ~
And where I grew up in Australia, surfing was a part of culture.
~By Marc Newson ~
The Chinese culture belongs not only to the Chinese but also to the whole world.
~By Jinato Hu ~
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.
~By Tadao Ando ~
As an integral part of the Department of Agriculture, the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service monitors our Nation's agriculture to protect against agricultural pests and diseases.
~By Mike Rogers ~
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.
~By Arthur Erickson ~
The mathematics of rhythm are universal. They don't belong to any particular culture.
~By John McLaughlin ~
One succeeds in obtaining an equivalent production at a lower price by improving the arts, trades and agriculture and by developing the physical and moral qualities of workers, farmers and craftsmen.
~By Antoine Lavoisier ~
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 ~
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 ~
In a kind of a way there's a bit of that happening now so we have to be careful to preserve our culture.
~By Yahoo Serious ~
If we ever start communicating with living creatures from other planets, the number one priority is, how are you going to communicate information? Even between different cultures here on Earth, you get into communication problems.
~By Story Musgrave ~
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 ~
Race wasn't an issue. My family was French, but Yorkville was a melting pot of races and cultures.
~By Bob Cousy ~
I can represent my culture while helping not only the Chinese-American community, but also the community at large.
~By Martin Yan ~
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.
~By Alan Dundes ~
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 ~
Yeah, I don't deal with current events or pop culture, and I avoid politics like the plague.
~By Max Cannon ~
Every man who has shown the world the way to beauty, to true culture, has been a rebel, a 'universal' without patriotism, without home, who has found his people everywhere.
~By Chaim Potok ~
You get people talking about being worried about their art, and dances... their culture being wiped out or taken over, and yet these same people are taking advantage of their people to use them as cheap labour.
~By Arlo Guthrie ~
I've always been interested in the relationship between total external surround, culture, the political matrix, technology, etc., and the internal human consciousness.
~By Norman Spinrad ~
I've never understood why artists, who so often condescend to the cliches of their own culture, are so eager to embrace the cliches of cultures they know nothing about.
~By Brad Holland ~
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'.
~By Roscoe Bartlett ~
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.
~By Billy Joel ~
For many years, our Messianic Jewish brothers and sisters have paid a great price. Other Jews have rejected them, and the Christian church would require they walk away from their traditions to fit into the Gentile culture. We must face these past wrongs.
~By Bill McCartney ~
The more English is heard in the world, the more gratifying it seems to speak French, and above all to know the culture of our country. They find a kind of French social grace in the language and culture.
~By Bernard Pivot ~
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 ~
The hero, the mythical subject, is constructed as human being and as male; he is the active principle of culture, the establisher of distinction, the creator of differences.
~By Teresa de Lauretis ~
Mr. President, it may surprise my colleagues, but I am no fan of federal disaster programs for agriculture. They are difficult to pass and often a disaster to implement.
~By Pat Roberts ~
When you concentrate on agriculture and industry and are frugal in expenditures, Heaven cannot impoverish your state.
~By Xun Zi ~
It's too hard for me to comment on the sorry state of our culture.
~By Trevor Dunn ~
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.
~By Chris Van Allsburg ~
Culture of the mind must be subservient to the heart.
~By Mohandas Gandhi ~
Under popular culture's obsession with a naive inclusion, everything is O.K.
~By Stanley Crouch ~
With the introduction of agriculture mankind entered upon a long period of meanness, misery, and madness, from which they are only now being freed by the beneficent operation of the machine.
~By Bertrand Russell ~
When I look at the system here and look at my position - not just as a basketball player, but when I look around me at the values of the people and the culture and compare them with the values of where I came from - I feel so blessed to be from Africa.
~By Hakeem Olajuwon ~
Bring diversity back to agriculture. That's what made it work in the first place.
~By David R. Brower ~
I think it talks about that there needs to be some proactive attack against drugs infiltrating our culture.
~By Joe Morton ~
In our culture we have such respect for musical instruments, they are like part of God.
~By Ravi Shankar ~
We are the meeting place, an entity that's trying to connect faith and culture.
~By William P. Leahy ~
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 don't think anyone could write about another culture and get it 100 percent accurate.
~By Elizabeth George ~
In both business and personal life, I've always found that travel inspires me more than anything else I do. Evidence of the languages, cultures, scenery, food, and design sensibilities that I discover all over the world can be found in every piece of my jewelry.
~By Ivanka Trump ~
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