Culture Quotes

"The relentless pressures of the so-called marketplace have distorted all our culture industries"

"In the transmission of human culture, people always attempt to replicate, to pass on to the next generation the skills and values of the parents, but the attempt always fails because cultural transmission is geared to learning, not DNA"

Gregory Bateson, Scientist

"There's one more thing I want to say. It's a touchy subject. Black beauty. Black sensuality. We live in a culture where the beauty of black people isn't always as celebrated as other types. I'd like to help change that if I can!"

Jody Watley, Musician

"I am very proud of what we have built in Spain, because it is not a traditional Formula 1 country. I think we have found passionate fans, and built up a strong culture for the sport - and things are improving every day, with more and more people getting interested"

Fernando Alonso, Celebrity

"The Ancient Games are relatively obscure to most Olympians, but to understand just what the Games are about, it is really necessary to investigate the roots and the meaning that has transformed culture and society for so many years"

Bill Toomey, Athlete

"The ability to mingle with so many countries and cultures is extremely valuable for men and women"

Bill Toomey, Athlete

"When Culture Club broke up, I hadn't been going out a lot because we'd been working all the time, so I suddenly had this period of leisure. And it was just around the time that the whole acid house thing kicked off in London"

Boy George, Musician

"France can never accept that it is no longer a dominating power in the world of culture. This is true both of the French right and the French left. They keep thinking that Americans are primitive cowboys or farmers who do not understand anything"

Adam Michnik, Editor

"I've been thinking about the distorted view of science that prevails in our culture. I've been wondering about this, because our civilization is completely dependent on science and high technology, yet most of us are alienated from science"

Ann Druyan, Writer

"Am I Latin? Am I American? What the hell am I? I love my culture and I'm very proud of my culture"

America Ferrera, Actress

"Never tire yourself more than necessary, even if you have to found a culture on the fatigue of your bones"

Antonin Artaud, Dramatist

"Don't tire yourself more than need be, even at the price of founding a culture on the fatigue of your bones"

Antonin Artaud, Dramatist

"Remember, this was a world that was still ethnically separated. I was thirteen and ignorant of the social situation in America, but I felt these records were better than what my own culture was turning out"

Roy Harper, Musician

"The return to the Organization of the United States of America, the bearers of a great and diversified democratic culture that has inspired many other peoples"

Carlo Azeglio Ciampi, Statesman

"The Church cannot be content to live in its stained-glass house and throw stones through the picture window of modern culture"

Robert McAfee Brown, Theologian

"You know, when it was done originally, they always had to fight to keep it going at the end of each season. Now, The Odd Couple has become part of our language and culture"

Brett Somers, Actress

"We are all murderers and prostitutes - no matter to what culture, society, class, nation one belongs, no matter how normal, moral, or mature, one takes oneself to be"

R. D. Laing, Psychologist

"I don't think anyone could write about another culture and get it 100 percent accurate"

Elizabeth George, Author

"I am a passionate believer that Britain has benefited the whole world and that our heritage, our culture, our values and more importantly our people who created those things, are worth fighting for"

Steve Blake, Athlete

"I think the international appeal of SF is quite understandable since the kinds of people who like to read it, are, by the nature of the beast, interested in other cultures, of which other nations on Earth are the closest available example"

Stanley Schmidt, Writer

"It's trite to say that the world has gotten smaller in the age of globalization, but my travels have told me that it's wrong to think this means there is some kind of uniform world culture"

Norman Spinrad, Author

"A free culture has been our past, but it will only be our future if we change the path we are on right now"

Lawrence Lessig, Educator

"The most important environmental issue is one that is rarely mentioned, and that is the lack of a conservation ethic in our culture"

Gaylord Nelson, Politician

"Besides, it doesn't make any sense to have these characters living in the year 3000 when all their points of reference are from the pop culture of the 80's and the 90's"

Joel Hodgson, Entertainer

"I think it was that we were really seasoned musicians. We had serious roots that spanned different cultures, obviously the blues"

Jimmy Page, Musician

"I'm very influenced by landscapes, not so much the way places look as the way the names sound. In this country we've got so many cultures, and the place names - the Spanish names and the Indian names, which are so incredibly musical"

Emmylou Harris, Musician

"I was immediately smitten with an attraction to this culture, not in the sense of high culture but of the basic way people behaved towards one another"

Harry Mathews, Author

"You get people talking about being worried about their art, and dances... their culture being wiped out or taken over, and yet these same people are taking advantage of their people to use them as cheap labour"

Arlo Guthrie, Musician

"Of the many forms of false culture, a premature converse with abstractions is perhaps the most likely to prove fatal to the growth of a masculine vigour of intellect"

George Boole, Mathematician

"Is there a sharper commentary on American culture and the world than The Simpsons?"

Anthony Bourdain, Author

"Every culture loves scatological humour. That's always a favourite"

Alex D. Linz, Actor

"My idea here is that, inasmuch as certain cognitive tasks and principles are tied to nature's laws, these tasks and principles are indifferent to language, culture, gender, or the particular mode of information that is provided"

Edward Tufte, Educator

"Culture clash is terrific drama"

Ken Follett, Author

"Because when you have millions of people with this kind of need for gratification, and the culture is saying that it's possible for everyone to satisfy all of their needs and desires all of the time, there are obviously going to be clashes - clashes of ego"

Taylor Hackford, Director

"It seems to me that many writers, by virtue of environments of culture, art and education, slip into writing because of their environments"

Robert E. Howard, Writer

"It's exciting to think that something I'm involved in is touching so many people in so many cultures"

Paul Guilfoyle, Actor

"Lives have been altered in fundamental ways, and later, after they acquire a more complete understanding of what goals are actually attainable, many are left facing a lot of pain and frustration. And yet, there's no culture of complaint"

Garry Trudeau, Cartoonist

"Materialist philosophies that treat human beings as machines or animals possess the high ground in our culture - academia, the most powerful media and many of our courts"

Marvin Olasky, Educator

"As we've seen, our constitutional system requires limits on copyright as a way to assure that copyright holders do not too heavily influence the development and distribution of our culture"

Lawrence Lessig, Educator

"A free culture is not a culture without property; it is not a culture in which artists don't get paid"

Lawrence Lessig, Educator

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