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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?"
70
"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?"
68
"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."
64
"Woman is an eminently poetic reality since man projects onto her everything he is not resolved to be."
43
"There is something unique in this soil, which despite many obstacles has always remained the abode of great souls."
38
"Almost everything we call "higher culture" is based on the spiritualization of cruelty."
32
"Rap is a gimmick, but I'm for the hip-hop, the culture."
31
"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."
31
"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."
31
"In the West, they will either accept or reject. In the East, they will always accept also provide guidance and patience."
30
"Culture is not made up but something that evolves which is human."
30
"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."
29
"I grew up in an atmosphere where words were an integral part of culture."
29
"We've got a major problem in our culture, as it relates to the Internet and pornography and child pornography."
29
"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."
28
"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."
28
"I'm somebody who's really contributed to culture. Popular culture."
27
"There's so much plastic in this culture that vinyl leopard skin is becoming an endangered synthetic."
27
"India is the land of Buddha and Gandhi. Equal respect for all religions must be in the DNA of every Indian."
27
"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.)"
27
"Film is our literature, so we should tell stories that are apropos of our culture, in that we can learn something about ourselves."
26
"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."
26
"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."
26
"You have to stay updated on trends, social things and pop culture, you need to stay with the times and keep evolving."
26
"The uniqueness of every soul is not a theme that our current culture, obsessed with group identities, cares to assert."
26
"It's too hard for me to comment on the sorry state of our culture."
25
"You can't understand European history at all other than through religion, or English literature either if you can't recognise biblical allusions."
25
"I just think that some version of the past in our culture is going to rise up and become dominant."
24
"Chinese culture has a lot of virtues that are tremendously valuable to not only us as Asian-Americans, but also the world in general."
24
"What is honored in a culture gets cultivated there."
24
"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."
24
"Bankers cannot afford to be concerned with only the economic aspects of projects. There may be serious implications on the natural environment, the urban environment, on human culture."
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