Culture Quotes - Page 52

Gardens are enclosed areas in which plants and arts meet. They form 'cultures' in an uncompromised sense of the word.

In order for humanity to survive in the twenty-first century and beyond, we must nurture rather than repress children's natural curiosity. We must encourage them to be curious, instead of fearful, toward other cultures.

In human life, economics precedes politics or culture.

I feel that I already have the life I love and I don't see how it could be improved radically by any greater material success I might have - bigger advances, more prizes. It's a kind of madness. And the culture of prize-giving is so corrupt.

A field becomes exhausted by constant tillage.

Every view of the world that becomes extinct, every culture that disappears, diminishes a possibility of life

Our culture is ill-equipped to assert the bourgeois values which would be the salvation of the under-class, because we have lost those values ourselves.

Bouillabaisse is only good because cooked by the French, who, if they cared to try, could produce an excellent and nutritious substitute out of cigar stumps and empty matchboxes.

A few little flowers will spring up briefly in the dry gulley through which torrents of water pass occasionally. But it is steady streams that bring thick and needed crops. In the agriculture of the soul that has to do with nurturing attributes, flash floods are no substitute for regular irrigation.

I don't want to live in a culture of despair. I'd like to live in a culture of hope.

We're so afraid of death in our culture, but I think if we understand it better, then we'll appreciate the life we have more.

As the tension eases, we must look in the direction of agriculture, industry and education as our final goals, and toward democracy under Mr Mubarak.

Violence against women in all its forms is a human rights violation. It's not something that any culture, religion or tradition propagates.

A football team represents a way of being, a culture.

Every major food company now has an organic division. There's more capital going into organic agriculture than ever before.

I'm proud of my Irish heritage and culture.

Culture is to know the best that has been said and thought in the world.

Television is completely another medium. For me, Lady Gaga and HBO are bringing us to mass culture.

in all cultures, human beings - in order to be human - must understand the nonhuman.

As one might expect in a society with mass communications and mass markets, the pseudo-ethic says that whatever is popular, is right. Where the traditional ethic derives its sanction from the superiority of a few, the pseudo-ethic derives its sanction from the inferiority of a great many. The pseudo-ethic is keyed, not to the spiritually gifted, but to the spiritually ungifted.

The diligent farmer plants trees, of which he himself will never see the fruit.

Companies don't have one culture. They have as many as they have supervisors or managers. You want to build a strong culture? Hold every manager accountable for the culture that he or she builds.

We Have the Ability to Achieve, If We Master the Necessary Goodwill, a Common Global Society

The truest test of civilization, culture and dignity is character and not clothing.

When a marriage culture fails, sexual desire no longer unites; instead it fragments.