Culture Quotes - Page 38

On a surface level, regionalism is gone, if we define regionalism as human culture. But, what if we define regionalism as something older than human culture?

Our culture has forgotten what the Founders knew: The American experiment is a moral, not just a political, exercise.

Literature presents you with alternate mappings of the human experience. You see that the experiences of other people and other cultures are as rich, coherent, and troubled as your own experiences. They are as beset with suffering as yours. Literature is a kind of legitimate voyeurism through the keyhole of language where you really come to know other people's lives--their anguish, their loves, their passions. Often you discover that once you dive into those lives and get below the surface, the veneer, there is a real closeness.

Drugs became an obsession, like Culture Club had been, like religion later became although I'm through with that now.

Rastafari not a culture, it's a reality.

Culture is the ability to describe Jane Russell without moving your hands

Permaculture challenges what we're doing and thinking - and to that extent it's sedition.

I, like all artists in Western cultures, am a shaman...come in the guise of a comic...to heal perception by using...'jokes'.

Am I Latin? Am I American? What the hell am I? I love my culture and I'm very proud of my culture

I think one of the most fascinating things you can do after you learn about your own people is to study something about the history and culture of other people.

Like every other good thing in this world, leisure and culture have to be paid for. Fortunately, however, it is not the leisured and the cultured who have to pay.

The farmer has to be an optimist or he wouldn't still be a farmer.

A man with a machine and inadequate culture is a pestilence.

When it comes to radical youth culture nothing sells better than neatly packaged and politically correct rage against the world where everything is politically correct and neatly packaged for sale.

The Big Bang, the formation of sars and planets, the origin and evolution of life on this planet, the advent of human consciousness and the resultant evolution of cultures - this is the story, the one story, that has the potential to unite us, because it happens to be true.

The one thing I never want to see again is a military parade. When I resigned from the army and went to a farm I was happy. When the rebellion came, I returned to the service because it was a duty. I had no thought of rank; all I did was try and make.

There are flaws in the way politics is reported in this country today and we should do something about it, .. Radio and television coverage of politics doesn't see its role as a mission to explain, but to destroy, in a pernicious culture in which journalists pit themselves against politicians.

Every now and again, the alternative culture is cherished by the mainstream for what it is, rather than how it should be, like the mainstream popular music.

It's neither our culture nor our race which interconnects us. It's Street Photography.

Don't ask who said it? Ask what they said.

An emancipated society, on the other hand, would not be a unitary state, but the realization of universality in the reconciliation of differences.

The culture cannot evolve faster than the language. The language is the flashlight that shows the path.

Engineering is a jeans and hoodie culture, and sales is more formal.

I am a passionate believer that Britain has benefited the whole world and that our heritage, our culture, our values and more importantly our people who created those things, are worth fighting for.

Culture is an instrument wielded by professors to manufacture professors, who when their turn comes will manufacture professors.