Culture Quotes - Page 48

The system of domination is founded on depriving nations of their true identity. It seeks to deprive nations of their culture, identity, self-confidence and in this way dominate them.

Brezhnev wasn't a minus for the history of our country, he was a huge plus, He laid a foundation for the country's economics and agriculture.

Everything the Beats stood for was the opposite of the dominant culture today.

We have such a young culture that there is an opportunity to contribute wonderful new myths to it, which will be accepted.

Performing, I can take it or leave it. Horticulture is far more challenging. I'm absolutely fascinated by it.

I always go to the Agriculture Building, where they make apple cider popsicles for a dollar.

You know, face painting in non-Western cultures is a sign of collectivism, is a sign of one representing the community, it's not unique at all.

The choice of a point of view is the initial act of a culture.

By increasing the use of renewable fuels such as ethanol and bio-diesel, and providing the Department of Energy with a budget to create more energy efficiency options, agriculture can be the backbone of our energy supply as well.

A Big Mac - the communion wafer of consumption.

I must study war and politics so that my children shall be free to study commerce, agriculture and other practicalities, so that their children can study painting, poetry and other fine things.

Every man's ability may be strengthened or increased by culture.

Systematic philosophical and practical anti-intellectualism such as we are witnessing appears to be something truly novel in the history of human culture.

There are no instances known to me of cultures having forsaken Truth or renounced the understanding in its widest sense.

The second fundamental feature of culture is that all culture has an element of striving.

Fashion is part of our culture, and it's about more than just a pretty dress.

Wherever I go, I bring the culture with me, so that they can understand that it's attainable. I didn't do it any other way than through hip-hop.

If you look through all the different cultures. Right from the earliest, earliest days with the animistic religions, we have sought to have some kind of explanation for our life, for our being, that is outside of our humanity.

If you make a movie of the present day culture, in the future it'll be a horror film.

I used to define success as being able to produce any result you wanted, whether it was a relationship, weight-loss, being a millionaire, impacting the culture, changing society, whatever it might be, it might be homelessness, whatever, but lately I've realized that success is "fulfilling your soul's purpose."

From imperial, economic and ideological causes, many cultures are the inheritors, and hence the prisoners, of attitudes of scorn and disdain for other faiths – outlooks which are not ennobling to anyone.

The greatest number of drug addicts are to be found in Teheran and in Karachi, not in the West. Not in New York believe it or not. It's the same with the roles of slavery, racism and imperialism in the world. These institutions were present in other cultures. However, it was Western civilization which did something about slavery, about racism and voluntarily dissolved its empires leaving behind a very positive legacy of institutions not to mention buildings and roadways.

Under neoliberalism, culture appears to have largely abandoned its role as a site of critique.

I'm homeless, in a funny way. My culture I think is completely rooted in German 19th century music I suppose.

The truly civilized man is always skeptical and tolerant, in this field as in all others. His culture is based on 'I am not too sure'.