Culture Quotes

"We now have a whole culture based on the assumption that people know nothing and so anything can be said to them"

"Many dotcoms recruited people from existing companies who were quite experienced in finance, marketing, distribution and other disciplines but not necessarily experienced in the Web culture"

John Patrick, Playwright

"Television is the first truly democratic culture - the first culture available to everybody and entirely governed by what the people want. The most terrifying thing is what people do want"

Clive Barnes, Journalist

"Scientists care deeply about their place in that culture, and their contribution to it"

Haldan Keffer Hartline, Scientist

"Shaft was a pop culture figure along t he lines of, I guess, Dirty Harry - except that he wasn't as much of a racist. So yeah, I was always a fan"

Jeffrey Wright, Actor

"I think everyone is very surprised at how 'Matrix' has become the pop culture phenomenon that it is"

Laurence Fishburne, Actor

"Not a single piece of material culture - not a single object - has been found at Giza that can be interpreted to come from a lost civilization"

Zahi Hawass, Scientist

"Jerusalem is a festival and a lamentation. Its song is a sigh across the ages, a delicate, robust, mournful psalm at the great junction of spiritual cultures"

David K. Shipler

"I think that the Japanese culture is one of the very few cultures left that is its own entity. They're just so traditional and so specific in their ways. It's kind of untouched, it's not Americanized"

Toni Collette, Actress

"What is right? Simply put, it is any assignment in which the photographer has a significant spiritual stake... spiritually driven work constitutes the core of a photographer's contribution to culture"

William Albert Allard, Photographer

"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"

Haldan Keffer Hartline, Scientist

"Generally, the French highly promote culture and the arts, and photography is in their blood"

Herb Ritts, Photographer

"I ascribe a basic importance to the phenomenon of language. To speak means to be in a position to use a certain syntax, to grasp the morphology of this or that language, but it means above all to assume a culture, to support the weight of a civilization"

Frantz Fanon, Psychologist

"That the potential to become Level 5 exists in you and me and the people we work with and that it is then a process or a journey to nurture that seed... in a culture by and large that doesn't reinforce it"

James Collins, Athlete

"There are people who wish to do us harm in the most heinous way. They want to kill Americans simply because they are Americans. They wish to destroy our culture and Nation because they don't like our freedoms, they don't like the fact that we are prosperous"

Judd Gregg, Politician

"I had been an eyewitness to a truly historic moment in American pop culture"

Jean Shepherd, Writer

"Jamestown changed the world in many ways, but perhaps it shaped our nation most profoundly the day Africans arrived. I can't think of a more relevant place to talk about the issues facing our community today than the place where African culture became American culture"

Tavis Smiley, Author

"For hundreds of years Iranians have been migrating to many parts of the world. They took Islamic culture to other parts of the world and established it there"

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Statesman

"Our culture peculiarly honors the act of blaming, which it takes as the sign of virtue and intellect"

Lionel Trilling, Critic

"Universities are the custodians not only of the many cultures of man, but of the rational process itself"

Edward Levi, Public Servant

"If you put this in the context of Detroit in '64 or '65, the economy was booming. Everybody had jobs and there was a whole nightclub culture where bands could work"

Wayne Kramer

"Just as there's garbage that pollutes the Potomac river, there is garbage polluting our culture. We need an Environmental Protection Agency to clean it up"

Patrick Buchanan

"On a group of theories one can found a school; but on a group of values one can found a culture, a civilization, a new way of living together among men"

Ignazio Silone, Author

"I plead for conservation of human culture, which is much more fragile than nature herself. We needn't destroy other cultures with the force of our own"

Arthur Erickson, Architect

"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"

Arthur Erickson, Architect

"The welfare culture tells the man he is not a necessary part of the family; he feels dispensable, his wife knows he is dispensable, his children sense it"

George Gilder, Writer

"We want people to experience art and think about it. The art reflects our time, it is about our culture"

David Elliott, Celebrity

"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"

Neil Patrick Harris, Actor

"Judges who take the law into their own hands, who make up constitutional 'rights' in order to strike down laws they oppose, undermine the people's right to have their values shape public policy and define the culture"

Orrin Hatch, Politician

"The bastard form of mass culture is humiliated repetition... always new books, new programs, new films, news items, but always the same meaning"

Roland Barthes, Critic

"What becomes fascinating is the way the culture industry doesn't deny it and doesn't try to mitigate it, but tries to sell its products as a way of liberating oneself"

Thomas Frank, Author

"Acting school was summer camp, and I needed concentration camp. I had so many different ideas swirling between culture and how to tie things together"

Ajay Naidu, Actor

"The target market is for people who have not been entrenched in Web culture"

John Patrick, Playwright

"Basketball, in America, is like a culture. It is like a foreigner learning a new language. It is difficult to learn foreign languages and it will also be difficult for me to learn the culture for basketball here"

Yao Ming, Athlete

"Our laws are a reflection of our culture. Our culture does not condone the torture of innocent and defenseless creatures. And we as a society believe all God's creatures should be treated humanely"

Joe Moore, Celebrity

"The Germanic invasions destroyed neither the Mediterranean unity of the ancient world, nor what may be regarded as the truly essential features of the Roman culture as it still existed in the 5th century, at a time when there was no longer an Emperor in the West"

Henri Pirenne, Historian

"Most people have a passive relationship with music and clothes, with culture. But music was my first contact with anything creative. Music is it, as far as I'm concerned"

Martin Freeman, Actor

"Regardless of whether you speak the language or are familiar with a culture, the picture should hold up"

Herb Ritts, Photographer

"The type of fig leaf which each culture employs to cover its social taboos offers a twofold description of its morality. It reveals that certain unacknowledged behavior exists and it suggests the form that such behavior takes"

Freda Adler, Educator

"In our culture we have such respect for musical instruments, they are like part of God"

Ravi Shankar, Musician

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