Culture Quotes - Page 69

The best intentions (of respect and tolerance) can often be annoying to those whose cultures are not in dominance: we feel that we are often zoological specimens.

I'm certainly curious about people. As a kid, I moved around a lot. I was raised in a lot of different places, and thanks to working in the movies, I've gotten to keep traveling. I've always been interested in other cultures and languages.

Sex is the refuge of the mindless. And the more mindless the woman, the more deeply embedded in the male "culture," in short, the nicer she is, the more sexual she is. The nicest women in our "society" are raving sex maniacs.

...this culture of mandatory happiness actually promotes dishonesty and more suffering.

It's too hard for me to comment on the sorry state of our culture.

Ask yourself: would you be comfortable printing everything your employees, customers & partners have to say about your culture?

Sigmund Freud was the apostle of disbelief. He was the one who made psychoanalysis a part of our culture, and in so doing he kicked out a flying buttress that had been essential for holding up our cathedral of faith.

A truly vibrant and creative culture depends on a system of education which is not divided along class and sectarian lines.

Culture change takes time, and NASA's culture is definitely improving. Based on its success, the change method is now being taken to each center agency-wide.

Whenever there's a change with Jazz & its aesthetics, it's almost always reflected with a change in the culture.

The ways in which Oscar Wilde was attacking the Romantics that preceded him, and the Romantic ideas that preceded him, were very similar to what the glam-rockers, particularly Bowie and Bryan Ferry, were attacking in the earnestness of '60s culture. Trying to shock, but with wit, cleverness, and homosexuality.

So American culture is itself a hybrid and lends itself to use in other people's hybrids.

I don't really know much about pirates, or pirate culture. I'd be a contrarian pirate.

No writer or thinker has taught me as much as James Hunter has about this all-important and complex subject of how culture is changed.

The gospel has supernatural versatility to address the particular hopes, fears, and idols of every culture and every person.

I'm going to put that on my gravestone. "He created such a category of unwanted pop culture - Famous for directing unwanted cultural references".

I really want to do a book on the history of the no-wave music scene in New York, how it extended out and formed lots of other things. It was such a great visual culture.

I don't see a film industry in Germany. They have a great TV culture, but how many German films are really exciting?

Let the farmer forevermore be honored in his calling; for they who labor in the earth are the chosen people of God.

All the capital employed in paper speculation is barren and useless, producing, like that on a gaming table, no accession to itself, and is withdrawn from commerce and agriculture where it would have produced addition to the common mass It nourishes in our citizens habits of vice and idleness instead of industry and morality It has furnished effectual means of corrupting such a portion of the legislature as turns the balance between the honest voters whichever way it is directed.

Agriculture is at the same time the most tranquil, healthy, and independent occupation.

If e-mail had been around before the telephone was invented, people would have said, 'Hey, forget e-mail! With this new telephone invention I can actually talk to people!'.

Culture is the process by which a person becomes all that they were created capable of being.

Civilization is over-rated, but there isn't much else.

But, when I toil in the field of Jewish culture which I frequently do, I am indeed a Jewish artist.