Culture Quotes - Page 79

I didn't choose Russia but Russia chose me. I had been fascinated from an early age by the culture, the language, the literature and the history to the place.

The whole world is being 'deculturalized' into a uniform 'Coca-Cola society,' wanting and needing an American way of life.

California is full of Mexican culture and Mexican music.

Pop culture is like our subconscious.

The essence of self-fulfillment and autonomous culture is an unshakable egotism.

That you've got to do anything that you feel is precious. I especially believe that about cultures and languages. You've got to be really conscious because time is running out.

We will always return to the private and inviolable act of reading as our culture's way of developing an individual.

If you really want to change a culture... empower women.

American political culture quickly and always outpaces any attempt to satirize it.

Youth culture adopts Armani and adapts it in its own way, as befits youthful enthusiasm.

The modern world seems to have no notion of preserving different things side by side, of allowing its proper and proportionate place to each, of saving the whole varied heritage of culture. It has no notion except that of simplifying something by destroying nearly everything.

The cultivation - even celebration - of victimhood by intellectuals, tort lawyers, politicians and the media is both cause and effect of today's culture of complaint.

If you let culture make tolerance the preeminent virtue, pretty soon you won't have anything else.

A culture that does not aspire to the divine becomes obsessed with the fascination of evil, reveling in the frivolous, the depraved, and the bestial.

Any time there is a cultural breakthrough in which this culture transcends what it's supposed to be, there's a violent reaction. So we had a black president, and it's followed by an incredibly violent reaction. It happens over and over.

One of the remarkable things about slums is that they do develop their own social organization and economy and even culture that is, on some level, functional and in some cases, remarkably resilient. This is kind of amazing.

Technology affects everyone, from agriculture to broadcasting to automotive to content to travel to leisure to everything, so we're seeing an incredible array of CEOs from every different industry.

All the culture war issues will be settled by the court.

When the dominant images of a culture are anticipatory, they "lead" social development and provide direction for social change.

Are we going to take the hands of the federal government completely off any effort to adjust the growing of national crops, and go right straight back to the old principle that every farmer is a lord of his own farm and can do anything he wants, raise anything, any old time, in any quantity, and sell any time he wants?

Professional footballers - those virile young stags of our modern culture - are near perpetual fountains of sputum.

No fools are so difficult to manage as those with some brains.

When I read the statements of Christ, there seems to be this urgency and intensity. I guess that's what I get out of it when I read the tone of the Scriptures, which is very different from the tone of our culture.

People always say "pop culture." As if we have some high culture to distinguish it from.

Culture follows power.