Culture Quotes

Considered now as a possession, one may define culture as the residuum of a large body of useless knowledge that has been well and truly forgotten.

It seems to me that in the western world, culture has something to do with appearance. A person that's out creating good stuff has got to appreciate someone when they take the time to have an appearance that goes with what they're doing.

From the subtle to the extreme, our culture and our values are under unrelenting attack from the media.

Culture is how biology responds and makes its living conditions better.

I think the more we embrace the culture of life and respect life, the better that we do.

The UK is not going to leave the European Union. Of course not. We are inextricably wound up with Europe. In terms of culture, history and geography, we are a European nation.

I've created a bridge between European electronic culture and urban American culture, and I've worked with established brands.

The function of literature, through all its mutations, has been to make us aware of the particularity of selves, and the high authority of the self in its quarrel with its society and its culture. Literature is in that sense subversive.

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

The highest possible stage in moral culture is when we recognize that we ought to control our thoughts.

I come from a very critical culture. You know the Scots. They're always saying: 'Oh, no. It will never work. You'll never amount to anything. You've got to know your place in the world.'

Any architectural project we do takes at least four or five years, so increasingly there is a discrepancy between the acceleration of culture and the continuing slowness of architecture.

I've been to Africa three times. All right? You can't bring Western reasoning into the culture. The same way you can't bring it into fundamental Islam.

The various forms of intellectual activity which together make up the culture of an age, move for the most part from different starting-points, and by unconnected roads.

Slowly but surely, we are acquiring that famous culture of democracy, which is our objective.

Great companies have high cultures of accountability, it comes with this culture of criticism I was talking about before, and I think our culture is strong on that.

It is not part of a true culture to tame tigers, any more than it is to make sheep ferocious.

Rap culture is interesting and different and has purpose but it has a non-romantic view of life and of social feelings. There may be a void in that.

I didn't know anything about Opus Die except from pop culture, like Dan Brown novels, which I knew wasn't really knowing anything about Opus Die.

It's too hard for me to comment on the sorry state of our culture.

I'm trying to trick people into thinking about the unthinkable by using pop culture images.

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!

Preservation of one's own culture does not require contempt or disrespect for other cultures.

We should have a State in which we could live and breathe as free men and which we could develop according to our own lights and culture and where principles of Islamic social justice could find free play.

A few words of Hindi appear here or there, but it's all Urdu. I feel that if the popular culture, which is what Hindi films are, uses Urdu, it's not going to diminish.

There are works of literature whose influence is strong but indirect because it is mediated through the whole of the culture rather than immediately through imitation. Wordsworth is the case that comes to mind.

Selling millions of albums is a sign you've infiltrated the culture.

Piety is not a goal but a means to attain through the purest peace of mind the highest culture.

Mr. Speaker, genocide is the most potent of all crimes against humanity because it is an effort to systematically wipe out a people and a culture as well as individual lives.

According to Inuit culture in Greenland, a person possesses six or seven souls. The souls take the form of tiny people scattered throughout the body.