Culture Quotes - Page 103

Because of the Chinese culture of obedience, you don't ask questions... You follow and obey.

I love the U.K. It's so different over there from America, you know, the culture and stuff. It's pretty awesome.

I'm sure one of the frustrations of being a Western enthusiast of Japanese food and culture is you're confronted every day with the absolute certainty that you will die ignorant.

One of my few virtues - I don't have a lot of them - would be a deep sense of curiosity. I'm interested in how other people live in other places; I'm interested in other cultures.

There's a numbness in our culture to the continuing horrors of genocide.

I love memoirs. They are probably my favorite literary form, along with biographies. The more confessional, the better. There is so, so, so little truth in the popular culture, and I am starved and grateful for any I can find.

If you change the society and a culture, the politics will follow.

The most striking feature of contemporary culture is the unslaked craving for transcendence.

I think there's this great disconnect between youth culture and politics, which is a product of how our capitalist system works.

Food should be cheap, and labor should be cheap, and everything should be the same no matter where you go; whether it's a McDonald's in Germany or one in California, it should be the same. And this message is destroying cultures around the world. Needless to say, agriculture goes with it.

Culture is activity of thought, and receptiveness to beauty and humane feeling. Scraps of information have nothing to do with it. A merely well informed man is the most useless bore on God's earth.

Buddhism ... is not a culture but a critique of culture, an enduring nonviolent revolution or "loyal opposition" to the culture in which it is involved.

I don't believe in God and all that. But I am Jewish, and very proud to be so, very proud of the culture.

Culture is just a shambling zombie that repeats what it did in life; bits of it drop off, and it doesn't appear to notice.

There is a fetishization of victimization in our culture. And I just am not interested in victimhood.

We are continuously challenged to discover new works of culture—and, in the process, we don’t allow any one of them to assume a weight in our minds.

Indian weddings are elaborate. As a culture, we like to celebrate everything Our weddings go on for sometimes a week, 10 days.

The literary artist lends verbal depth to the visual. The visual artist provides visible articulation for the literary.

Jews are no longer pressed and obliged to fight, hide or deny their Jewishness. What for? No one actually requires today to abandon the idiosyncrasy of some other culture or ethnic tradition. The great achievement of this last period is that we have been slowly, sometimes reluctantly, yet steadily, learning the art of living with differences.

The celebrity culture demands a camera-ready-at-all-times look or else the photo is circulated in a demeaning headline.

A Mediterranean city is really my culture.

In addition to achieving outside the industry, agriculture, national defense science and technology modernization, we are faced with the important task of system modernization.

I by no means intend to simplify the challenges women face in any culture. Women are marginalized in all cultures in my opinion, some in more extreme ways than others.

Recovery culture teaches you that you have to repent. I don't think that's necessary.

I'm not cynical when it comes to things that are important. I'm cynical about pop culture and all that horseshit.