Culture Quotes - Page 34

We do not measure a culture by its output of undisguised trivialities but by what it claims as significant.

No matter what eyewitness testimony is in the court of law, it is the lowest form of evidence in the court of science.

I think living in our culture right now, there's a universal experience where we feel like we become what we do. Sometimes that's rewarding and sometimes that creates an existential crisis.

I meant exactly what I said: that we are saddled with a culture that hasn't advanced as far as science.

At the heart of globalisation is a new kind of intolerance in the west towards other cultures, traditions and values, less brutal than in the era of colonialism, but more comprehensive and totalitarian.

I love where I'm from. I don't live there because of the circumstances, but all my family is there. It's what's inside, it's not what's outside that determines the culture and the feeling.

More and more major businesses and industries are being run on software and delivered as online services - from movies to agriculture to national defense.

Socialist revolution aims at liberating the productive forces. The changeover from individual to socialist, collective ownership in agriculture and handicrafts and from capitalist to socialist ownership in private industry and commerce is bound to bring about a tremendous liberation of the productive forces. Thus, the social conditions are being created for a tremendous expansion of industrial and agricultural production.

On the Iberian Peninsula in the Spanish-Portuguese area, southern France that high state of a culture existed there because of Africans known as Moors had come there and brought it there.

Culture is an indispensable weapon in the freedom struggle.

During the many centuries that magic, here on this planet, was presumed to have worked, there were at least as many theories as to how magic worked as there were cultures and religions.

A higher standard of living also brings about a higher standard of culture and civilization.

Introverts paradoxically pull away from culture and create culture.

In the dancehall world, we have crews and they battle. It's part of the entire culture surrounding dancehall.

Every contact we have with a customer influences whether or not they'll come back. We have to be great every time or we'll lose them.

The conception of what is normal varies not only with the culture but also within the same culture, in the course of time.

I think every culture is passionate about food; some are just passionate about food and the food is shitty.

The locus of corporate innovations has been product development. But in times of rapid and unpredictable change, the creation of individual products becomes less important than the creation of a general organizational aptitude for innovation.

He that sows his grain upon marble will have many a hungry belly before his harvest.

All tradition is merely the past.

The family is the engine that drives civilization. Throughout history, those cultures that have failed to found their rules and attitudes of society on the central importance of the family unit have decayed and disintegrated.

I just came from South Africa, a place that had been in a perpetual uprising since 1653, so the uprising had become a way of life in our culture and we grew up with rallies and strikes and marches and boycotts.

He that would look with contempt on the pursuits of the farmer, is not worthy the name of a man.

The ideology of hardness and cruelty runs through American culture like an electric current.

Culture relates to objects and is a phenomenon of the world; entertainment relates to people and is a phenomenon of life.