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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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"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."
38
"There is something unique in this soil, which despite many obstacles has always remained the abode of great souls."
22
"Culture is not made up but something that evolves which is human."
19
"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."
18
"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."
18
"We've got a major problem in our culture, as it relates to the Internet and pornography and child pornography."
17
"Rap is a gimmick, but I'm for the hip-hop, the culture."
15
"In the West, they will either accept or reject. In the East, they will always accept also provide guidance and patience."
14
"I'm somebody who's really contributed to culture. Popular culture."
14
"Almost everything we call "higher culture" is based on the spiritualization of cruelty."
14
"What is honored in a culture gets cultivated there."
13
"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.)"
13
"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."
13
"You have to stay updated on trends, social things and pop culture, you need to stay with the times and keep evolving."
13
"Tea is one of the main stays of civilization in this country."
13
"The tunes, rhythms, and messages are drawn mainly from secular culture."
12
"Nations rise and fall, flourish and decay, by what they believe in and by what their culture stands for."
12
"The uniqueness of every soul is not a theme that our current culture, obsessed with group identities, cares to assert."
12
"I just think that some version of the past in our culture is going to rise up and become dominant."
11
"I grew up in an atmosphere where words were an integral part of culture."
11
"When any civilization is dust and ashes," he said, "art is all that's left over. Images, words, music. Imaginative structures. Meaning-human meaning, that is-is defined by them. You have to admit that."
11
"All the products of one period have something in common; the artists who illustrate the poetry of their generation are the same artists who are employed by the big financial houses. And nothing reminds me so much of the monthly parts of Notre-Dame de Paris, and of various books by GA©rard de Nerval, that used to hang outside the grocer's door at Combray, than does, in its rectangular and flowery border, supported by recumbent river-gods, a 'personal share' in the Water Company."
11
"Never have things of the spirit counted for so little. Never has hatred for everything great been so manifest " disdain for beauty, execration of literature. I have always tried to live in an ivory tower, but a tide of shit is beating at its walls, threatening to undermine it."
11
"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?"
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"Every culture that has lost myth has lost, by the same token, its natural healthy creativity. Only a horizon ringed about with myths can unify a culture. The forces of imagination and the Apollonian dream are saved only by myth from indiscriminate rambling. The images of myth must be the daemonic guardians, ubiquitous but unnoticed, presiding over the growth of the child's mind and interpreting to the mature man his life and struggles."
10
"Film is our literature, so we should tell stories that are apropos of our culture, in that we can learn something about ourselves."
10
"There's so much plastic in this culture that vinyl leopard skin is becoming an endangered synthetic."
10
"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."
10
"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."
10
"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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