Culture Quotes - Page 89

The UN special envoy on food called it a 'crime against humanity' to funnel 100 million tons of grain and corn to ethanol when almost a billion people are starving. So what kind of crime is animal agriculture, which uses 756 million tons of grain and corn per year, much more than enough to adequately feed the 1.4 billion human who are living in dire poverty?

Israel is a democratic state with an independent judiciary, a free press and a diverse population of many cultures, religions and creeds.

By a quirk of culture and history, it could be that China has arrived today where many other 'more developed countries' will arrive tomorrow.

Of course, nobody would deny the importance of human beings for theological thinking, but the time span of history that theologians think about is a few thousand years of human culture rather than the fifteen billion years of the history of the universe.

America is the first culture in jeopardy of amusing itself to death.

What example do you have of anything like the Pyramids outside of Africa? You have them in Mexico, but that can be traced to early African migration. So the African created mound culture.

It's that invasive and puerile curiosity to feed a tabloid culture. I don't subscribe to it.

Culture means control over nature.

Music is always going to be only as sophisticated as the culture that consumes it.

I'm glad I was faced with different cultures when I was growing up because I wasn't fazed by it. It has been a huge benefit to me; I feel comfortable wherever I go.

Our culture now wonderfully, alchemically transforms images and history into artistic material. The possibilities seem endless and wide open.

The point is there is more information now then you can pass along comfortably in an oral tradition, say a strictly speaking culture. That is a problem.

The genocidal culture's image of woman as object and victim is paralleled by contemporary representations that continually show the Earth as a toy, machine, or violated object, as well as by the religious and scientific ideology that legitimates the possession, contamination, and destruction of Mother Earth.

Those who proposed the Constitution knew, and those who ratified the Constitution also knew that this is...a limited government tied down to specified powers....It was never supposed or suspected that the old Congress could give away the money of the states to encourage agriculture or for any other purpose they pleased.

There is something intrinsically, systemically wrong with white, western culture, and if we don't fix it, it won't continue.

You have to be respectful of pop culture, because people interpret it in the way they want.

Money is like a mirror to our culture. What we see tells us who we are.

Everyday that passes I am pulled from youth as how it has been defined by that culture into something else.

Culture makes pain tolerable by interpreting it's necessity; only pain perceived as curable is intolerable.

The key to The Doors is the culture behind the myth.

I've got tremendous respect for different cultures, for the food and everything.

Bars are meeting places and places to unwind. But at some point, what is culture unwinding from, and why can't they meet anywhere else?

Over recent years, urbanisation, globalisation and the destruction of local cultures has led to a rise in the prevalence of mental illness in the developing world.

Asia is rich in people, rich in culture and rich in resources. It is also rich in trouble.

The artist in all societies has traditionally been a kind of barometer, more sensitive to nuances and changes than others, because he is more deeply immersed in his culture and more interested in its meanings.