Culture Quotes - Page 35

We're a spoiled, lazy culture, full of ethnic pride that has to have a parade for every nationality.

Soccer is an art more central to our culture than anything the Arts Council deigns to recognize.

I had rather be on my farm than be emperor of the world.

Agriculture is the most healthful, most useful, and most noble employment of man

To work on behalf of the wild is to restore culture

There will never be color blindness in a culture of fear.

Isn't connecting people to distant lands and culture one of the strengths of good literature?

There's an unexpectedly high share of workers still in agriculture, .. That's like a fault line.

If we demand things in worship that can't be in every culture, then we're demanding cultural preferences, not biblical.

Art is a universal language and through it each nation makes its own unique contribution to the culture of mankind.

Within this culture wealth is measured by one's ability to consume and destroy.

I tried to conform to what everyone thinks is beautiful. But my genetics gave me a curvy figure, and I've come to understand that in the Latina culture, that is beautiful.

If we learn anything from the history of economic development, it is that culture makes all the difference.

Much of the criticism of economic globalization has centered on factory labor abuses. But the majority of the world's poor are not employed in factories; they are self-employed - as peasant farmers, rural peddlers, urban hawkers, and small producers, usually involved in agriculture and small trade in the world's vast "informal" economy .

Misunderstanding a culture's symbols is a common root of predujice.

It's a dark culture that we live in. But you were called to glow in the dark.

Character is the backbone of our human culture. Music is the flowering of character.

I was delighted to become a popular-culture reference point. I'm still delighted about it actually, and I still find it to be weird.

It is impossible for us to understand the Church if we regard her as subject to the limitations of human culture. For she is essentially a supernatural organism which transcends human cultures and transforms them to her own ends.

There is a theory behind the culture of victimhood: It's called "intersectionality." This theory posits that racism, sexism, classism, ableism, etc. are interconnected, overlapping, and mutually reinforcing. Together they form a "matrix of oppression."

I've seen nerdists make tributes to their obsessions out of Legos that are like works of art. It just goes to show you how pervasive this stuff has become in our culture. It really is an ideology that you can subscribe to now.

I am being bombed by questions of all kinds. I will try to be very concise and try to explain to the American people. We had a great number of mistakes in the economic fleld, naturally. I am not the critic. It is Fidel Castro, the one who has criticized repeatedly the mistakes we have made, and he explained why we have made them. We did not have a previous preparation. We made mistakes in agriculture. We made mistakes in industry. All these mistakes are being settled now.

Frontline love. It is our one hope for breaking down barriers and for restoring the sense of community, of caring for one another, that our decadent, impersonalized culture has sucked out of us.

Christians are called to redeem entire cultures, not just individuals.

If our culture is to be transformed, it will happen from the bottom up - from ordinary believers practicing apologetics over the backyard fence or around the barbecue grill.