Culture Quotes - Page 33

The difficulty of carrying on a leisure-oriented tradition of culture in a work-oriented society is enough in itself to keep the present crisis in our culture unresolved.

To understand the culture, study the dance. To understand the dance, study the people.

Redeeming culture is the never ending mission of the church.

We have contact with alien cultures.

Men are a thousand times more intent on becoming rich than on acquiring culture, though it is quite certain that what a man IS contributes more to his happiness than what he HAS.

If you do not breathe through writing, if you do not cry out in writing, or sing in writing, then don't write, because our culture has no use for it.

The arts have long been an integral and vibrant part of our nation's cultural heritage. In its many forms, art enables us to gain a deeper understanding of ourselves and of our society. Providing us with a unique way to learn about people of other cultures, it allows us to discover all that we have in common. At its best, art can beautify our cities, encourage economic development and social change, and profoundly affect the ways we live our lives.

When people, land, and community are as one, all three members prosper; when they relate not as members but as competing interests, all three are exploited. By consulting Nature as the source and measure of that membership, The Land Institute seeks to develop an agriculture that will save soil from being lost or poisoned while promoting a community life at once prosperous and enduring.

For the true measure of agriculture is not the sophistication of its equipment the size of its income or even the statistics of its productivity but the good health of the land.

The whole history of civilization is strewn with creeds and institutions which were invaluable at first, and deadly afterwards

A culture without mythology is not really a civilisation.

As a child of West Texas, I identify with Hispanic culture every bit as much as I do North American culture.

My problem is with the warped value system our culture has. Why is it that if you knife a woman in a movie it's PG, but if you swear at her it's rated R and if you make love to her it's rated X?

Technology and comfort - having those, people speak of culture, but do not have it.

Culture is your operating system.

The culture used to move relatively slowly, so you could take aim. Now it moves so fast, and is so fluffy and meaningless, you feel like an idiot even complaining about it.

What if culture itself is nothing but a halt, a break, a respite, in the pursuit of barbarity?

Agriculture not only gives riches to a nation, but the only riches she can call her own.

The pictures are of a psychological culture, a Jungian culture, if you will. It emanates from my own psyche... It's a hard place to get to, honestly. It has taken me many years to get to that place and to define it visually.

Can you imagine the impact on our own culture if American Christians began using their riches as if they belonged to God?

I ask all people of goodwill to help build a culture of encounter, solidarity and peace

The ideals of technological culture remain underdeveloped and therefore outside of popular culture and the practical ideals of democracy. This is also why society as a whole has no control over technological developments. And this is one of the gravest threats to democracy in the near future. It is, then, imperative to develop a democratic technological culture.

Our culture is revered and it inspires people all around the globe.

We live in a beauty-obsessed culture, which on one hand is absolutely fabulous, but on the flip side, is also dangerously extreme.

We live in a culture that has a real hard time distinguishing fiction from reality. Even when they're told something is fiction.