Culture Quotes - Page 109

Because the planetary culture is becoming ever more closely knitted together all its parts are becoming co-dependent.

Culture is more and more consciously becoming a project carried out in the domain of language by, for instance, propaganda both governmental and commercial.

It [culture] invites people to diminish themselves, and dehumanize themselves by behaving like machines, meme processors of memes passed down from Madison Avenue, and Hollywood, and what have you.

I hope that we have a culture that values every human life from the moment of conception to the moment of natural death.

There are pop-culture things on television [that I like]. Not so much in music at all.

What worries me sometimes in the culture is that the role for music that actually challenges and enlightens the audience is being pushed to the sidelines.

There are stories we take on from our culture, and there are stories based on our own personal history. Some of those stories lock us in limiting beliefs and lead to suffering, and there are others that can move us toward freedom.

The military tends to be a traditional place. Traditional culture, traditional men are often attracted to serving in the military.

A richly detailed, poignant, and utterly fascinating look into another culture and how it is cross-pollinated by our own. It brings to mind the work of Ha Jin in its power and revelation of the new.

I don't hear any of the popular stuff unless it's good 'cause I pay no attention to popular culture, at all.

There's always been an incredible amount of junk music, and junk everything. Marshall McLuhan said that a medium surrounds a previous medium, and turns the previous medium into an art form. So, what was once a junk culture, like film, television surrounded it and turned it into an art form.

With a movie you're creating from the beginning this particular work, let's not call it work of art, because very few movies are works of art, let's just call them bits of popular culture, whatever they are, sometimes very rarely by accident a movie becomes a work of art.

If literature survives at all, it is as retreat for those who refuse to assimilate to American mass culture.

I have so many influences, I'm a big follower of fashion. I love fashion, because designers really find different reference points and really study up on different cultures.

The whole thing about bullying is: yes, the culture has to change. Yes, teens have the power to change it. It’s not going to happen overnight, but this is definitely something that I want to start motivating teens to do today." - Publisher Weekly

We live in a culture in which intelligence is denied relevance altogether, in a search for radical innocence, or is defended as an instrument of authority and repression. In my view, the only intelligence worth defending is critical, dialectical, skeptical, desimplifying.

But I cannot forgive those who did not care about more than their own glory or well-being. They thought they were civilized. They were despicable. Damn them all.

The culture-heroes of our liberal bourgeois civilisation are ant-liberal and ant-bourgeois . . .

One task of literature is to formulate questions and construct counterstatements to the reigning pieties. And even when art is not oppositional, the arts gravitate toward contrariness. Literature is dialogue: responsiveness. Literature might be described as the history of human responsiveness to what is alive and what is moribund as cultures evolve and interact with one another.

I don't turn to greeting cards for wisdom and advice, but they are a fine reflection of the general drift of the culture.

One great function of the arts is to keep ideals alive in a culture that does not yet realize them.

We in Ireland are gifted beyond most peoples with a talent for acting, and in Dublin especially, while scorning culture, which indeed we have not got, we are possessed of a most futile and diverting cleverness.

The media and the rest of popular culture weren't recording people's reactions to 9/11; they were forcing made-up reactions down people's throats.

Innocence as we understand it in our culture is very theatrical. The flip side is, if youre charming enough, you can get away with anything.

A culture that values only what has succeeded before, where the first rule of success is that there must be something 'measured' and counted, is not a culture that will sustain alternatives to market-driven 'creativity.