Culture Quotes - Page 56

On Ernst Lubitsch: He could do more with a closed door than other directors could do with an open fly.

You can't live like a Bushman or an Aborigine anymore, so they've got to rethink the whole basis of how they're going to live. Permaculture helps you do that easily.

With the introduction of agriculture mankind entered upon a long period of meanness, misery, and madness, from which they are only now being freed by the beneficent operation of the machine.

There seems to be three ways for a nation to acquire wealth: the first is by war...this is robbery; the second by commerce, which is generally cheating; the third by agriculture, the only honest way.

If most American cities are about the consumption of culture, Los Angeles and New York are about the production of culture - not only national culture but global culture.

Aquinas brought an Aristotelian view of reason back into European culture, and lighted the way toward the Renaissance.

A culture is not the anonymous product of undifferentiate d masses, but the sum of the intellectual achievements of individual men.

A culture is made — or destroyed — by its articulate voices.

Perhaps the single most powerful event facing humanity today is a great awakening on a planetary scale that has been millennia in the making. We humans are in the midst of a profound advance as a species to a higher form of global consciousness that has been emerging across cultures, religions and worldviews through the centuries. This awakening of global consciousness is nothing less than a shift, a maturation, from more egocentric patterns of life to a higher form of integral and dialogic patterns of life.

Our incapacity to comprehend other cultures stems from our insistence on measuring things in our own terms.

[The 'corporate takeover of people's lives'] also accounts for a lot of homogenization of culture. There are fast food restaurants everywhere. Every place tastes the same.

Ati sarvatra varjayet: Excess of anything is bad. Some of us are attracted to Good. But the universe tries to maintain balance. So what is good for some may end up being bad for others... Agriculture is good for us humans as it gives us an assured supply of food, but it is bad for the animals that lose their forest and grazing land.

I love the natural world - it comes from my culture, which grew out of a people enslaved.

Human rights are universally valid and indivisible, regardless of culture and religion.

Industry is increased, commodities are multiplied, agriculture and manufacturers flourish: and herein consists the true wealth and prosperity of a state.

In the world there is, parallel to the force of death and constraint, an enormous force of persuasion that is called culture.

In the light of our culture, these are not unreasonable questions and tactics, but if once again, we try to see the lens through which we look, we can see that there is far too great an emphasis placed on the future.

The university is our culture's assertion that what is made by the mind has value and can convey values.

I grew up with coconuts as the main flavor in food in Jamaica. It's part of our culture.

Agriculture was the first manufacturing industry in America and represents the best of all of us.

In the West, you have always associated the Islamic faith 100 percent with Arab culture. This in itself is a fundamentalist attitude and it is mistaken.

Culture is always about politics in the end.

Will we be able to imagine a new culture of water?

Unfortunately the niveau of political culture is not particularly high in Poland - a relic of the communist past.

And do as adversaries do in law, strive mightily, but eat and drink as friends.