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Culture Quotes
"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?"
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"The tunes, rhythms, and messages are drawn mainly from secular culture."
108
"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?"
92
"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."
80
"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."
59
"There is something unique in this soil, which despite many obstacles has always remained the abode of great souls."
59
"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."
57
"Woman is an eminently poetic reality since man projects onto her everything he is not resolved to be."
57
"Culture is not made up but something that evolves which is human."
56
"I'm somebody who's really contributed to culture. Popular culture."
53
"India is the land of Buddha and Gandhi. Equal respect for all religions must be in the DNA of every Indian."
52
"You can't understand European history at all other than through religion, or English literature either if you can't recognise biblical allusions."
51
"Rap is a gimmick, but I'm for the hip-hop, the culture."
50
"I grew up in an atmosphere where words were an integral part of culture."
50
"We've got a major problem in our culture, as it relates to the Internet and pornography and child pornography."
49
"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.)"
49
"Almost everything we call "higher culture" is based on the spiritualization of cruelty."
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"In the West, they will either accept or reject. In the East, they will always accept also provide guidance and patience."
48
"The uniqueness of every soul is not a theme that our current culture, obsessed with group identities, cares to assert."
48
"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."
46
"Film is our literature, so we should tell stories that are apropos of our culture, in that we can learn something about ourselves."
45
"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."
45
"It's too hard for me to comment on the sorry state of our culture."
44
"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."
44
"The adequate study of culture, our own and those on the opposite side of the globe, can press on to fulfillment only as we learn today from the humanities as well as from the scientists."
43
"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."
43
"But foremost, I do not subscribe to the view that Islamic culture and democracy cannot be reconciled."
43
"The question was heatedly debated of how much Western culture should be brought into China."
43
"Nations rise and fall, flourish and decay, by what they believe in and by what their culture stands for."
43
"There's so much plastic in this culture that vinyl leopard skin is becoming an endangered synthetic."
42
"You have to stay updated on trends, social things and pop culture, you need to stay with the times and keep evolving."
42
"I don't really know much about pirates, or pirate culture. I'd be a contrarian pirate."
41
"Isn't reality based on the prevailing culture, the trend that people want to identify with?"
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"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."
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