Culture Quotes - Page 119

It's hard for me to say you have to accept that the world is meaningless and the landscape is there before and after. That's not something we learn much in our culture growing up.

As we refine, our checks become finer. If we rise to spiritual culture, the antagonism takes a spiritual form.

The highest end of government is the culture of men.

Whilst all the world is in pursuit of power, culture corrects the theory of success.

Society cannot do without cultivated men. As soon as the first wants are satisfied, the higher wants become imperative.

The land is the appointed remedy for whatever is false and fantastic in our culture...food for our mind, as well as our body.

England produces under favorable conditions of ease and culture the finest women in the world. And, as the men are affectionate and true-hearted, the women inspire and refine them.

But the nomads were the terror of all those whom the soil or the advantages of the market had induced to build towns. Agriculture therefore was a religious injunction, because of the perils of the state from nomadism.

Culture opens the sense of beauty.

A cheerful, intelligent face is the end of culture.

We live in a really sexist culture, that's got to be addressed. And a really homophobic one. And all those things need to be addressed and looked at.

We live in a really racist culture and it's got to be addressed.

People who don't have stories in their cultures go nuts.

Doing nude scenes for me is totally fine. When you view it through the lens of a prudish, inhibited culture, then it becomes a little perverted. But the experience of acting is that you transcend your own experience.

I think a lot of artists no longer want to participate in or be associated with narrative because of its corruptedness in contemporary culture.

The utter destruction of our culture isn't just around the corner. It has been here for some time.

If any of my plays outlive me or get on library book shelves and somehow stay read, all of a sudden it's a testament to "that's part of our culture, that's part of our history."

[My muse] is, in fact, a woman of the world, and precisely because of this, hopes that a diversity of cultures will endure, and that one bland monoculture does not swamp everything.

There are still some places I'd love to visit - Africa, China, Brazil, India. I want to travel the world and experience other cultures and peoples.

I feel like Hip Hop culture has always been about [fashion]...it started in the street so it has always been a thing of the streets to be first.

May the culture of life and love render vain the logic of death.

Certain elements of today's ecological crisis reveal its moral character. First among these is the indiscriminate application of advances in science and technology. Many recent discoveries have brought undeniable benefits to humanity. Indeed, they demonstrate the nobility of the human vocation to participate responsibly in God's creative action in the world. Unfortunately, it is now clear that the application of these discoveries in the fields of industry and agriculture have produced harmful long-term effects.

[Mexican people] have a culture, a culture that goes back millennia.

Every conflict is emblematic of the throwaway culture.

You have a specific and important mission, that of keeping alive the relationship between the faith and the cultures of the peoples to whom you belong. . . . [W]e have to follow Christ along the concrete path of our daily lives so that he can transform us.