Culture Quotes - Page 27

The paradigm of Western culture is that the essence of persons is dangerous; thus, they must be taught, guided, and controlled by those with superior authority.

For the first time, the weird and the stupid and the coarse are becoming our cultural norms, even our cultural ideal.

Scientists are very much entangled in their culture and this culture is not pristine, untouched by other cultures and practices.

I love Latino culture but I hate the concept of "la raza." It is a divisive mindset.

It would be impossible to be a woman in Western culture and not have your own issues about your image and what you look like.

The Culture of Complaint... We live in a culture of complaint because everyone is always looking for things to complain about. It's all tied in with the desire to blame others for misfortunes and to get some form of compensation into the bargain.

...Any authentic creation is a gift to the future.

Worship is no longer worship when it reflects the culture around us more than the Christ within us.

Instead of trying to understand agriculture in its own terms, acknowledge that agriculture ultimately comes out of nature. Right now agriculture is the No. 1 threat to biodiversity on the planet.

If you eat, you are involved in agriculture.

Eating is an agricultural act. Eating ends the annual drama of the food economy that begins with planting and birth. Most eaters, however, are no longer aware that this is true. They think of food as an agricultural product, perhaps, but they do not think of themselves as participants in agriculture. They think of themselves as 'consumers.'

Trust is the lubrication that makes it possible for organizations to work.

The mindset that is needed, the capabilities that are needed, the metrics that are needed, the whole culture that is needed for discontinuous innovation, are fundamentally different.

So imagine a world 6 degrees warmer. It's not going to recognize geographical boundaries. It's not going to recognize anything. So agriculture regions today will be wiped out.

I got exposed to so many different cultures and people.

If you attempt to implement reforms but fail to engage the culture of a school, nothing will change.

You cannot change what has already happened. You can always change the way you respond.

Every intelligent painter carries the whole culture of modern painting in his head. It is his real subject, of which everything he paints in both an homage and a critique, and everything he says is a gloss.

Ours is a culture and a time immensely rich in trash as it is in treasures.

In agriculture, people have taken wild plants that can't be eaten by people - and turned them into wonderful food sources. And that's because genomes can change, and people working with plants have picked mutations. Mutations are nothing more than genetic changes.

I wasn't accepted because I didn't accept the drug culture that most of my peers were involved in. Now it's like a locked room.

When you start to kind of immerse yourself in that improvisation culture, you gotta be comfortable enough with your instrument to throw yourself into a really potentially dangerous situation.

The improvement of life was only accomplished to the extent to which it was based on a change of consciousness, that is, to the extent to which the law of violence was replaced in men's consciousness by the law of love.

I'm passionate and I travel the world not just as a tourist but to understand cultures... I've lived with Masai tribe... I travel the world and bring it back in the form of a research book that would become the starting point for the collection.

The present aristocracy of western culture, at the very moment when it most clearly dominates the world, is being imitated rapidly and successfully in every eastern country.