Culture Quotes - Page 83

I don't know why it is that we need to denigrate, to knock down. It's so sick.

Art is not like other culture because its success is not made by its audience. The public fill concert halls and cinemas every day, we read novels by the millions, and buy records by the billions. 'We the people' affect the making and quality of most of our culture, but not our art.

A culture must be reasonably stable, but it must also change, and it will presumably be strongest if it can avoid excessive respect for tradition and fear of novelty on the one hand and excessively rapid change on the other.

Lasting solutions are always difficult to come to. But they will have to persevere. I've been repeating ad nauseam that we in Burma we are weak with regard to the culture of negotiated compromises, that we have to develop the ability to achieve such compromises.

When we create out of our experiences, as feminists of color, women of color, we have to develop those structures that will present and circulate our culture.

Very simply, the culture of another people does not have to be accepted when it is subhuman!

Talent is culture with insolence.

Every effort therefore must be made to perpetuate prosperity. And, since that is to the advantage of the rich as well as the poor, all that accrues from the revenues should be collected into a single fund and distributed in block grants to those in need, if possible in lump sums large enough for the acquisition of a small piece of land, but if not, enough to start a business, or work in agriculture. And if that cannot be done for all, the distribution might be by tribes or some other division each in turn.

Music and culture are intrinsically improvisational, existential.

Of course there's no such thing as a totally objective person, except Almighty God, if she exists.

Our culture is now one of masculine triumphalism, in which transhistorically feminine expressions – empathy, sweetness, volubility, warmth – are seen as impediments to a woman’s professional trajectory in many sectors.

Maybe silence is something we're uncomfortable with as a culture, I don't know.

Happiness is our natural state. Happiness is the natural state of little children, to whom the kingdom belongs until they have been polluted and contaminated by the stupidity of society and culture.

I think one thing that has helped me to be an entrepreneur is being an immigrant and coming to the United States. I had to basically build a new life for myself, and adjust very quickly to a new environment, new culture, learn a new language.

We teach our children one thing only, as we were taught: to wake up. We teach our children to look alive there, to join by words and activities the life of human culture on the planet

Learning is nothing without cultivated manners, but when the two are combined in a woman, you have one of the most exquisite products of civilization.

Placing on writers the responsibility to represent a culture is an onerous burden.

My parents taught me service - not by saying, but by doing. That was my culture, the culture of my family.

Youth culture now really looks back and embraces the past, but keeps it contemporary but not sticking to one particular style.

Newspapers are a centre of public culture. We can’t give in to extortion.

A society or culture which is disposed to view the world in Manichean terms will be more vulnerable to control by propaganda.

Learning has always been made much of, but forgetting has always been deprecated; therefore pedantry has pretty well established itself throughout the modern world at the expense of culture.

Concerning culture as a process, one would say that it means learning a great many things and then forgetting them; and the forgetting is as necessary as the learning.

Diligent as one must be in learning, one must be as diligent in forgetting; otherwise the process is one of pedantry, not culture.

He who cherishes the value of cultures cannot fail to be a pacifist.