Culture Quotes - Page 65

Profits might also increase, because improvements might take place in agriculture, or in the implements of husbandry, which would augment the produce with the same cost of production.

It is obvious that the greatest and most important service that is required of our agriculture under existing conditions is an enlarged production of the staple food crops.

Although, this is often used with negative connotations, I see ideology as an inherent part of culture.

The illusion of skill is not only an individual aberration; it is deeply ingrained in the culture of the [investment management] industry.

Representation, then, is not - nor can it be - neutral; it is an act - indeed the founding act - of power in our culture.

Television is the first truly democratic culture - the first culture available to everybody and entirely governed by what the people want. The most terrifying thing is what people do want.

Some day, the public might actually revolt against the undemocratic system of seniority that allows Congress to keep the old ways of Washington ingrained into the culture of Congress.

Of course it is extremely difficult to like oneself in a culture which thinks you are a disease.

In an individualistic culture, the narcissist is God's gift to the world. In a collectivist society, the narcissist is God's gift to the collective.

I havent lost my culture, just my accent.

For many of our shareholders, our stock is all they own, and we're acutely aware of that. Our culture [of conservatism] runs pretty deep.

Farming implements are as cheap in Sydney as in England.

The dynamism and freedom that characterizes the West is the product of Christianity's reforming itself and moving forward culturally. The ascendancy of the West is the story of the difference that Christianity makes, and it's a story we can't let our culture forget.

I'll tell you an explanation that I find commonly overrated and speculative in the extreme: the idea that things that succeed in popular culture do that because they hit the temper of the times.

We believe one magnificent highway of this kind [the Lincoln Highway], in actual existence, will stimulate as nothing else could the building of enduring highways everywhere that will not only be a credit to the American people but that will also mean much to American agriculture and American commerce.

I have lived my life in a culture that hates fat people.

What I've been surprised by is not how different people are, but how similar they are. There are certain types of Airbnb people, and they are in every city in the world - it's just that in some cultures, there is more of a generational divide.

I'm sure mothers are important across every culture, but particularly in Korean society, the role of the mother is of great importance.

There's nothing in my head that's worth anything at all because it's the culture that put it there.

I don't think culture is something you can describe.

I am working as public relations director for the Tour de France and maintaining my farm.

On a national level there is a tendency to portray Latino culture as a monolithic entity, which is a really inaccurate way of seeing ourselves. There is as much diversity and uniqueness within the Latino culture as there is in any other kind of American culture.

Culture is a slingshot moved by the force of its past

Politeness is the chief sign of culture.

In order to perpetuate itself, every oppression must corrupt or distort those various sources of power within the culture of the oppressed that can provide energy for change.