Culture Quotes - Page 9

The only currency that will heal every culture is ceaseless love.

And this fear that US models are replacing everything else now spills over from the sphere of culture into our two remaining categories: for this process is clearly, at one level, the result of economic domination - of local cultural industries closed down by American rivals.

Its [the anthropological method] power to make us understand the roots from which our civilization has sprung, that it impresses us with the relative value of all forms of culture, and thus serves as a check to an exaggerated valuation of the standpoint of our own period, which we are only too liable to consider the ultimate goal of human evolution, thus depriving ourselves of the benefits to be gained from the teachings of other cultures and hindering an objective criticism of our own work.

I can't tell you how much I love Target and Costco, that kind of culture, because it's something I never felt a part of. I've always felt like a tourist because I have never fit in anywhere.

In Australian culture, people are just more laid back, people aren't as serious, they just take their time with things. It's just like, whatever, if I don't get it done I don't get it done.

In my culture, shoes are more or less the first thing women look at. Women look at the build, and then they look at the shoes. If you don't have nice shoes, you don't have money. When I meet a lawyer, the first thing I look at are his shoes. If he has good shoes, he's getting my money.

Rap is a gimmick, but I'm for the hip-hop, the culture.

Culture' is a finite segment of the meaningless infinity of the world process, a segment on which human beings confer meaning and significance.

Multi-culture is the real culture of the world - the pure race doesn’t exist.

Everything is arranged so that it be this way, this is what is called culture.

If you're doing something outside of dominant culture there's not an easy place for you. You will have to do it yourself.

The seeds of civilization are in every culture, but it is city life that brings them to fruition.

Sustainability is here to stay or we may not be

Culture stereotypes women to fit the myth by flattening the feminine into beauty-without-intelligence or intelligence-without-beauty; women are allowed a mind or a body but not both.

There's a power that movies and music has, that can move you and motivate you to look at your neighbor in a slightly more respectful way, and look at cultures in a more inclusive way.

Every one of us is a perfect human being, deformed by the family, the society and the culture.

Art... reacts to or reflects the culture it springs from.

Our perception that we have 'no time' is one of the distinctive marks of modern Western culture.

The whole culture is telling you to hurry, while the art tells you to take your time. Always listen to the art.

Culture is a little like dropping an Alka- Seltzer into a glass- you don't see it, but somehow it does something

The manner of their living is very barbarous, because they do not eat at fixed times, but as often as they please

We have to bring children into a new relationship to food that connects them to culture and agriculture.

Second to agriculture, humbug is the biggest industry of our age.

You have to open your mind. I like the ability to express myself in a deep way. It's the closest music to our humanity - it's like a folk music that rises up out of a culture.

The production of natural resources in agriculture, forestry and fisheries, stable natural hydrological cycles, fertile soils, a balanced climate and numerous other vital ecosystem services can only be permanently secured through the protection and sustainable use of biological diversity.