Culture Quotes

A culture without property, or in which creators can't get paid, is anarchy, not freedom.

Every man who has shown the world the way to beauty, to true culture, has been a rebel, a 'universal' without patriotism, without home, who has found his people everywhere.

Culture is the widening of the mind and of the spirit.

We cannot live by power, and a culture that seeks to live by it becomes brutal and sterile. But we can die without it.

People often ask why I left CNN - I didn't like management. I liked my colleagues in the news gathering but the corporate culture that seized management when AOL came in (Steve Case and Gerry Levin) was disgusting.

Film is our literature, so we should tell stories that are apropos of our culture, in that we can learn something about ourselves.

Not a having and a resting, but a growing and becoming, is the character of perfection as culture conceives it.

God exists, if only in the form of a meme with high survival value, or infective power, in the environment provided by human culture.

Yes and our obsession with youth in our culture and how we, women lie about their age after 35 obsessively and no one wants to let anyone know they're getting older, et cetera.

America is the sum of all our journeys as we search for our national community and our national culture.

A test of a people is how it behaves toward the old. It is easy to love children. Even tyrants and dictators make a point of being fond of children. But the affection and care for the old, the incurable, the helpless are the true gold mines of a culture.

In an individualistic culture, the narcissist is God's gift to the world. In a collectivist society, the narcissist is God's gift to the collective.

The art and culture that is New York, communications, finance, all these things help make up New York. The rest of the country should be happy that we are what we are.

I think in Atlantic Canada, because of what happened in the decades following Confederation, there is a culture of defeat that we have to overcome.

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

I think as a culture, we don't like conflict or looking at icky stuff - especially in our downtime.

It's difficult sometimes when you have somebody who is of a different culture trying to make light of something that is maybe not quite something that they understand.

Labor is the source of all wealth and all culture.

In my book I don't just demonstrate that free enterprise is the most efficient way of organizing an economy - which it is. I also show that it's an expression of American values, and, thus, that a fight for free enterprise is very much a fight for our culture.

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

China is an old nation with a colourful history. Its booming economy has triggered an appetite and a curiosity around the world for its art and culture, one that continues to grow. I can, however, tell people that it is a show with no actor.

Why is it that, as a culture, we are more comfortable seeing two men holding guns than holding hands?

I'm still very aware of the violence in our culture, more so than other people. I know where it comes from when someone is trying to suppress someone else, sometimes they fight back.

I grew up on a farm, and we didn't have cable and only limited radio stations, so I wasn't inundated with culture the way people in other parts of the country were. But I was really interested in it.

I'm trying to change the culture in New York City; that's hard enough!

For years all I seemed to be doing was lobbying politicians and others to persuade them that European culture needed movies, and that we had to protect it.

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.

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

It's a song that we sing after we win a Test match. We sing it after every one-day series win. It's been passed down through the generations. It's the culture of the Australian team.

The down side of Americans being obsessed with pop culture is that they kind of like it light.