Culture Quotes

Culture of the mind must be subservient to the heart.

There's been progress toward seeing that nature and culture are not opposing terms, and that wilderness is not the only kind of landscape for environmentalists to concern themselves with.

I was not interested in spending 10 years in the culture wars.

The challenge is the culture. You have to have a vision for the BBC-it can't merely be that it's big and has a place in the market.

Now they're attracted to one another, but repelled by their ethnic origins, so that there was something to overcome. They had to overcome their own prejudices, which had been imposed by the culture - their own shame at being Mexican and Italian.

Samurai culture did exist really, for hundreds of years and the notion of people trying to create some sort of a moral code, the idea that there existed certain behaviors that could be celebrated and that could be operative in a life.

Marilyn Manson is a mockery of American pop culture.

Really, when it comes to gay rights, there's two wars going on. The first war is political. But the culture war is over.

Civilization is a youth with a molotov cocktail in his hand. Culture is the Soviet tank or L.A. cop that guns him down.

I'm a British intern going in. I'm hoping that John will just kind of tackle it from who this person is and what she's about rather than trying to go in on her culture. We need to move a step forward than that.

There's nothing in Chinese culture that is an equivalent of the geisha. It's so different, so special to Japan.

Washington is still very much a male-oriented culture. Being from Los Angeles, I think it is less so there - there is less attachment to tradition, perhaps, there is more flexibility, more acceptance of change generally. That is partly because of Hollywood.

Cinema reflects culture and there is no harm in adapting technology, but not at the cost of losing your originality.

I think really, China, Chinese, I think they really have a long history of civilization, rich culture.

In the light of our culture, these are not unreasonable questions and tactics, but if once again, we try to see the lens through which we look, we can see that there is far too great an emphasis placed on the future.

At times in my life, I have been utterly lonely. At other times, I've had disgusting infectious diseases. Try admitting these things in our culture.

The way we make sense of a realistic text is through the same broad ideological frame as the way we make sense of our social experience or rather, the way we are made sense of by the discourses of our culture.

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'm not allowing my perspective to be dictated by the dominant culture.