The purpose of a writer is to keep civilization from destroying itself. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
I'm not interested in seeing dance die. It's not to my advantage. Nor is it to our culture's advantage or anybody else's. — Twyla Tharp Copy Share Image
“They were the faces of the culture in which I grew up. That culture was dead.” — Bobby Adair Copy Share Image
“Of what value is a civilization that can’t toast a piece of bread as ordered?” Mari” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Giving and receiving love is vital to human existence. It is the glue that binds couples, families, communities, cultures, and nations. — G. Frank Lawlis Copy Share Image
Women are in many ways second-class citizens in the United States in 2016, because of the way that we're portrayed in popular culture. — Geena Davis Copy Share Image
When something looks cheap, it looks cheap and that is all, and there is no justification for this cheapness. — Ilkin Santak Copy Share Image
“As goes the family, so goes the faith; as goes the faith, so goes the culture.” — Kenneth L. Gentry Jr Copy Share Image
Images have become our true sex objects. It is this promiscuity and the ubiquity of images, this viral contamination of images which… — Jean Baudrillard Copy Share Image
The best books are not read even by those who are called good readers. What does our Concord culture amount to? There… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The art of remaining consistent is keeping your ear to the street and the new music. Embracing the culture for what it… — Jadakiss Copy Share Image
Chicago still remains a Mecca of the Midwest - people from both coasts are kind of amazed how good life is in… — Harold Ramis Copy Share Image
American pop culture is perpetually in adolescent mode. The notions of what it takes to be a man, as depicted in pop… — Alex Tizon Copy Share Image
I'm always pointing things out to native New Yorkers that I think are weird about this place and their culture and all… — Adrian Tomine Copy Share Image
We have this false idea in our culture that if you haven't made it by 30, then you're never going to do… — Tracy McMillan Copy Share Image
Eight Hours For What We Will is a major contribution to modern American working-class history and to the history of a changing… — Herbert Gutman Copy Share Image
State violence, particularly the use of torture, abductions, and targeted assassinations are now justified as part of a state of exception in… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
I haven't traveled in Africa nearly as much as I'd like to. I've been there a few times, and I'd like to… — Chick Corea Copy Share Image
“We have seen some of the mechanisms whereby culture serves the interests of power, including making something legitimate, moral, or common sense.… — Wendy Griswold Copy Share Image
The myths underlying our culture and underlying our common sense have not taught us to feel identical with the universe, but only… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
The sure foundations of the state are laid in knowledge, not in ignorance; and every sneer at education, at culture, at book… — George William Curtis Copy Share Image
Skills-building opportunities should be extended to people outside of the mainstream talent pool. That might include at-risk youth, veterans returning to the… — Punit Renjen Copy Share Image
The mythology of your culture hums in your ears so constantly that no one pays the slightest bit of attention to it.… — Daniel Quinn Copy Share Image
We change people's lives, at the risk of our own. We change countries, governments, history, gravity. After gravity, culture is the thing… — Cate Blanchett Copy Share Image
“The customs and practices of life in society sweep us along.” — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
