Culture Quotes - Page 101

in a world where only a minor portion of the land is really well suited to agriculture, man is using much of the best land with dubious efficiency.

Women can succeed in villages all over the world today without relying on heavy machinery or debt. They can take leadership roles in agriculture, eliminating hunger and inequity.

There's too much democracy in the culture, not enough in the society.

In fact, we live in a culture where intelligence, exceptional or not, is reviled.

... the novelist is bound by the reasonable possibilities, not the probabilities, of his culture.

Finally one arrives at this: the state of sleep has an ambiguous function; in sleep, the lack of contact with the culture brings out the worst and also the best in us.

Google is very much a not-invented-here, build-it-ourselves culture.

American culture at large has failed working mothers.

There are lots of people in the world whose existence doesn't revolve around American culture.

The United States is definitely ahead in culture of innovation. If someone wants to accomplish great things, there is no better place than the U.S.

Taboos are falling across our culture like dominoes. What was unspeakable yesterday dominates talk shows today.

As mankind becomes more enlightened to know their real interests, they will esteem the value of agriculture; they will find it in their natural--their destined occupation.

Human nature is deeper and broader than the artificial contrivance of any existing culture.

Mythology is a subjective truth. Every culture imagines life a certain way.

From the beginning, this culture - civilization - has been a culture of occupation.

I've learned something on the road, traveling around: state shapes. The easier it is to draw the shape of the state, the harder it is to live in that state. So, if you live in a regular polygon, get the hell outta there. You gotta move to a squiggly area. Culture's attracted to squiggles.

What gets in our way is history and culture and religion and economic conditions. It is part of the hypnosis of our social conditioning.

American culture is kind of an international culture, isn't it? British culture is a bit more unique. I think funny things are sort of funny around the world, really.

Not only did this new pornography industry change the way men look at women and how we relate to sex, how we sell stuff, and not only did it change America's cultural landscape - it's also this incredible metaphor for a market-based economy. The great pyramid scheme that America has become. I felt like in were larger themes in terms of culture and economics that could be addressed.

The situation of the factory worker today is reminiscent in certain respects of that of the nineteenth-century capitalist whose wife dragged him reluctantly toward "culture" and away from his "materialistic" preoccupations.

Naturally and logically, people who forage rather than herd domestic beasts and tend crops for a living - that is, people who depend utterly on wild as opposed to agriculture nature for their welfare - inevitably come to view themselves as merely an element of it all, one member of an egalitarian community, alternately eating and being eaten.

Each culture has its own form of staged combat, evolved from its particular method of street fighting and cleaned up for presentation as a spectacle, e.g. savate, Cornish wrestling, karate, kung-fu.

Chucky become a pandemic part of pop culture, definitely.

I've sort of escaped my background, as people often do, through art and culture.

We need to use economic instruments such as carbon taxes, cap and trade, tax and dividend and whatever else to help incentivize behavior that will move us to a post-carbon, post-animal agriculture world, and make our societies more resilient to the shocks that are already baked into the system. But that doesn't make climate change an "economic issue."