Culture Quotes - Page 10

We spend so much time condemning, critiquing, and copying culture we miss on actually changing it. Be a creator not a hater.

I came from a dirt farm, now I'm filthy rich.

We are women. We are a subject people who have inherited an alien culture.

Politics was good a hundred years ago. Today, politicians have no ability to solve any problems because they are not students of behavior. They are not students of agriculture, oceanography - they know nothing about the factors that operate the world.

He who loses the arts loses the culture.

My vision is to make touch positive social value in our culture.

Understanding a people's culture exposes their normalness without reducing their particularity...It renders them accessible: setting them in the frame of their own banalities, it dissolves their opacity.

An American has invented a remote control that will turn off any telly within a 20ft radius. What a marvellous device! What a splendid invention! What a really helpful and improving way of devoting your time to building something that turns off culture. Next week, I'm instigating Burn a Book Week, to encourage even more conversation. I've come up with a fantastic little device which I'll call a box of matches.

There is something about veganism that is not easy, but the difficulty is not inherent in veganism, but in our culture.

The greatness of a culture can be found in its festivals

Improving quality requires a culture change, not just a new diet.

Art has knowledge and skills, and to come to know them is to be implicitly against a culture that is against knowledge - today's mass culture, which aims to produce a lot of consuming morons.

Keep doing good deeds long enough, and you'll probably turn out a good man in spite of yourself.

Every culture, or subculture, is defined by a set of common values, that is, generally agreed upon preferences. Without a core of common values a culture cannot exist, and we classify society into cultures and subcultures precisely because it is possible to identify groups who have common values.

The most effective way to achieve right relations with any living thing is to look for the best in it, and then help that best into the fullest expression.

Globalization, which attempts to amalgamate every local, regional, and national economy into a single world system, requires homogenizing locally adapted forms of agriculture, replacing them with an industrial system-centrally managed, pesticide-intensive, one-crop production for export-designed to deliver a narrow range of transportable foods to the world market.

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

In a participatory culture, none of us is fully literate unless we're creating, not just consuming.

Everything can be improved.

Culture is this thing that we can exchange among ourselves as human beings to knock aside our differences and build upon our similarities. Cultural exchange is the ultimate exchange.

As Congress continues to debate ways to address illegal immigration, we must remember the many hard-working legal immigrants that contribute so much to our nation's economy and culture.

Music knows no barrier of age or culture. It isn’t about being politically correct or even making a statement. Music is what appeals to the ears and touches your soul.

A dying culture invariably exhibits personal rudeness. Bad manners. Lack of consideration for others in minor matters. A loss of politeness, of gentle manners, is more significant than is a riot.

Culture, the acquainting ourselves with the best that has been known and said in the world, and thus with the history of the human spirit.

You have to be interested in culture to design for it.