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Culture Quotes
"The tunes, rhythms, and messages are drawn mainly from secular culture."
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"You can get a large audience together for a strip-tease act-that is, to watch a girl undress on the stage. Now suppose you came to a country where you could fill a theatre by simply bringing a covered plate on to the stage and then slowly lifting the cover so as to let every one see, just before the lights went out, that it contained a mutton chop or a bit of bacon, would you not think that in that country something had gone wrong with the appetite for food?"
64
"Is it possible that literacy standards are falling because young Australians are growing up in a culture in which they can be entertained and informed, and in which they can communicate effectively, without having to master any but the most rudimentary literacy skills?"
54
"According to this view, democracy is a product of western culture, and it cannot be applied to the Middle East which has a different cultural, religious, sociological and historical background."
54
"There is something unique in this soil, which despite many obstacles has always remained the abode of great souls."
31
"Woman is an eminently poetic reality since man projects onto her everything he is not resolved to be."
30
"Rap is a gimmick, but I'm for the hip-hop, the culture."
24
"We've got a major problem in our culture, as it relates to the Internet and pornography and child pornography."
24
"There is no room for God's Word in our culture, where our children are without reverence for God or faith in the Bible. There is no room for our Lord's creed of purity and self-denial when the media sends forth a constant barrage of profanity and indecency and materialism."
24
"But what is more, if we have succeeded in adding to the basic understanding of our universe and ourselves, we will have made a contribution to the totality of human culture."
24
"Culture is not made up but something that evolves which is human."
23
"When we only name the problem, when we state complaint without a constructive focus or resolution, we take hope away. In this way critique can become merely an expression of profound cynicism, which then works to sustain dominator culture."
23
"Almost everything we call "higher culture" is based on the spiritualization of cruelty."
23
"I'm somebody who's really contributed to culture. Popular culture."
22
"Goth culture, as mired in the past as it is, even it goes through changes, so Goth when I was growing up is not what it is now. When I think of Goth culture as it is at the moment I think of mall culture."
22
"In the West, they will either accept or reject. In the East, they will always accept also provide guidance and patience."
21
"Hey, you sass that hoopy Ford Prefect? There's a frood who really knows where his towel is."(Sass: know, be aware of, meet, have sex with; hoopy: really together guy; frood: really amazingly together guy.)"
21
"There's so much plastic in this culture that vinyl leopard skin is becoming an endangered synthetic."
20
"I do not believe, from what I have been told about this people, that there is anything barbarous or savage about them, except that we all call barbarous anything that is contrary to our own habits."
20
"I just think that some version of the past in our culture is going to rise up and become dominant."
19
"I make no claim that Jewish culture is superior to other cultures or that the Jewish song is better than the song of my neighbor."
19
"What is honored in a culture gets cultivated there."
19
"The uniqueness of every soul is not a theme that our current culture, obsessed with group identities, cares to assert."
19
"Film is our literature, so we should tell stories that are apropos of our culture, in that we can learn something about ourselves."
18
"I grew up in an atmosphere where words were an integral part of culture."
18
"I always tell my Western friends that it is best to keep your own tradition. Changing religion is not easy and sometimes causes confusion. You must value your tradition and honor your own religion."
18
"So I've done my fair share of theater. I have also been very fortunate in that I've been able to come to New York two or three times a year just to see as many shows as possible. I think the live theater culture here is incredible."
18
"You have to stay updated on trends, social things and pop culture, you need to stay with the times and keep evolving."
18
"Nations rise and fall, flourish and decay, by what they believe in and by what their culture stands for."
18
"The choice-obsessed modern West is probably more accommodating to individuals who choose to eat differently than any other culture has ever been, but ironically, the utterly unselective omnivore - "I'm easy; I'll eat anything - can appear more socially sensitive than the individual who tries to eat in a way that is good for society. Food choices are determined by many factors, but reason (even consciousness) is not generally high on the list."
18
"Tea is one of the main stays of civilization in this country."
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