Culture Quotes - Page 86

Both total accommodation to the culture and total resistance to it are usually signs of intellectual sickness.

In the John Wayne movies, the Indians were savages that were trying to scalp you. That culture has really suffered because of the stereotype you see in those westerns.

My father used to say that, through culture, humans effectively domesticated themselves.

Owning things is an obsession in our culture. If we own it, we feel we can control it; and if we control it, we feel it will give us more pleasure. The idea is an illusion.

The climate of our culture is changing. Under these new rains, new suns, small things grow great, and what was great grows small; whole species disappear and are replaced.

The first farmer was the first man, and all historic nobility rests on possession and use of land.

I dont see things with gender, race and culture

Only faith in Christ gives rise to a culture contrary to egotism and death.

Truth can never be confined to time and culture; in history it is known, but it also reaches beyond history.

Geographically speaking, I was born on a French island - the île d'Oléron. Otherwise, I come from a milieu where culture was of the utmost importance. I learned music even before I learned to read. I always read books beyond my years.

Culture Clash is a national treasure.

My own ongoing research among secular Americans-as well as that of a handful of other social scientists who have only recently turned their gaze on secular culture-confirms that nonreligious family life is replete with its own sustaining moral values and enriching ethical precepts.

The success of Prozac says that today's high-tech capitalism values a very different temperament. Confidence, flexibility, quickness, and energy - the positive aspects of hyperthymia - are at a premium.

a steady diet of mass culture is a form of deprivation.

Even among the elite, in government circles, technological culture is somewhat deficient.

Resistance is always possible! But we must engage in resistance first of all by developing the idea of a technological culture.

Cultures that don't laugh at themselves are cults.

The Bostonians take their learning too sadly: culture with them is an accomplishment rather than an atmosphere; their "Hub," as they call it, is the paradise of prigs.

When you're a foreigner, at the beginning you are far away from the culture. Then, little by little, you start to interact with people, have friends, have a life, and then you feel more comfortable.

As Israel becomes like South Africa, it's increasingly becoming a pariah state, being excluded from culture at large.

With the advent of this kind of TMZ culture, it sadly seems to have infiltrated the vanguard of film commentary. I see these reviews sometimes where I think, well, you have a right to say whatever you want about my work, and I will listen whether it's good or bad and see if there's something that I might work with, but personal issues don't have a place in film commentary.

Our society needs to re-establish a culture of caring.

I see myself in pop culture. I listen to pop music, I do pop things, and I'm also a scientist.

The lifeblood of Mercy For Animals is our undercover investigations of animal agriculture.

My favorite sign here says, "I care about you." In a culture that trains people to avoid each other's gaze, to say, "Let them die," that is a deeply radical statement.