Culture Quotes - Page 73

Popular culture has become engorged, broadening and thickening until it's the only culture anyone notices.

Time spent in the cultivation of the fields passes very pleasantly.

To give an accurate description of what has never occurred is not merely the proper occupation of the historian, but the inalienable privilege of any man of parts and culture.

The fact is, that civilization requires slaves. Unless there are slaves to do the ugly, horrible, uninteresting work, culture and contemplation become almost impossible.

Journalism combines adventure with culture.

Istanbul is a vast place. There are very conservative neighbourhoods, there are places that are upper class, Westernised, consuming Western culture.

I identify with my culture, but I am happy to be living on a tolerant, intellectual island where I can deal with Dostoyevsky and Sartre, both great influences for me.

No matter who you are, no matter what your culture is, it is absolutely possible to look out and extend yourself in such a way, that you can connect to other people and find that we are more alike than we are different.

We know longer live in a homogenous society, it is not black, white, Asian or Latin, it is a melting pot. Until we learn to assimilate and learn about other cultures, we will continue to have racism problems. Of course, there are other '-isms' as our ills. We have sexism, ageism, elitism, homophobia-ism, there are many -isms we have to overcome.

Daniel's message of hope and help is still the good news of God's grace. We call it the gospel today. It still has the power to impact lives and transform cultures. Paul referred to the gospel as the "power of God" [Romans 1:16] and chose a word from which we derive our word "dynamite" to describe it. It's this power - not pickets, petitions, protests or politics - that's our only hope today.

It is of the essence of imaginative culture that it transcends the limits both of the naturally possible and of the morally acceptable.

We all have what might be called a culturally modified brain, and as cultures evolve, they continually lead to new changes in the brain.

The animated bug has bitten pop culture. It makes me feel happy and free. When you don't act seriously, you can make up your own rules.

So I've never found there was any particular separation between the two cultures at all, musically speaking.

What we can see depends heavily on what our culture has trained us to look for.

But you will hardly ever read about them. Why? Because once again, the media has predetermined what is not worthy of coverage, even when the news item is something as uninteresting as the cosmic origin of every element in your body.

My idols are Janis Joplin and Annie Lennox, who are neither of them from the typical pop culture.

Agriculture is the soul and chief support of empires; industry produces riches and the happiness of the people; exportation represents the superabundance, and good use of both.

At Cambridge, it was the weirdest culture. Everyone pretended they didn't do any work, yet it was so competitive.

As a society we should be encouraging people out of the debt-culture mindset, not promoting it.

Ads and logos are our shared global culture and language, and people are insisting on the right to use that language, to reformulate it in the way that artists and writers always do with cultural material,.

The only way to drive out bad culture is with good culture

Engaging in social business is beneficial to a company because it leverages on business competencies to address social issues, involves one-time investment with sustainable results, and produces other positive effects such as employee motivation and improved organizational culture.

Genuine wit implies no small amount of wisdom and culture.

You have to work at creating your own culture.