Culture Quotes - Page 67

Our critique of Israel has to be about the state, not culture or religion, but the state of Israel

We are living in a popular culture where everything is overexposed.

The Western democracy of today is the forerunner of Marxism which without it would not be thinkable. It provides this world plague with the culture in which its germs can spread.

I'm of Nigerian descent, from the Yoruba tribe. Names are very significant in that culture. It basically states your purpose in life.

I wasn't searching for a common denominator - I started wondering about the challenge of working in other cultures. What I reached was the sudden acknowledgment of the universal aspect of filmmaking.

So in Jamaica it is the aim of everybody to talk English, act English and look English. And that last specification is where the greatest difficulties arise. It is not so difficult to put a coat of European culture over African culture, but it is next to impossible to lay a European face over an African face in the same generation.

Not a single piece of material culture - not a single object - has been found at Giza that can be interpreted to come from a lost civilization.

My involvement in the political arena is to make sure there's a place for culture.

I kind of worry about that a little bit - we lost our film culture for 30 years because the Americans came in and bought up all the cinema chains and wouldn't show any Australian films.

So we have to be careful because if you don't protect your culture you won't have it for very long.

I grew up in an atmosphere where words were an integral part of culture.

A lot of people don't know the culture shock of how you can be in a rich area and then be in poverty. People don't know how different it is over there.

A poor thing, perhaps, but my own.

What chance of survival does a culture have when its own elites actively seek its destruction?

We are the meeting place, an entity that's trying to connect faith and culture.

This will arguably be the third great revolution of America, if we can prove that we literally can live without having a dominant European culture.

The teacher of history's work should be, ideally, not simply a description of past cultures, but a performance of the culture in which we live and are increasingly taking our being.

Not all intelligence can be artificial now, so if we make a mistake, the consequences are no longer simply located within an institution or a national culture.

You have to create a track record of breaking your own mold, or at least other people's idea of that mold.

There is just now a great clamor and demand for "culture;" but it is not so much culture that is needed as discipline.

The dominant mood of contemporary American culture is the self-celebration of the peasantry.

Cattlemen have lost more in the last few years than anybody and say less about it.

Coolidge has the best idea on this farm relief. He said, 'Farmers, you are in a hole. I can't help you, but I will get in with you.' He did. That made it fine so the farmers were satisfied as long as Coolidge was going to get in with them.

Congress knew Coolidge would veto the farm bill. There was more politics than relief in that bill.

This session of Congress is also to relieve the farmer again, relieve him of any encouragement that he might have received during the last one.