Culture Quotes · Page 77

The sickly cultural pathos which the whole of France indulges in, that fetishism of the cultural heritage.

— Jean Baudrillard

In their heyday, comics were a dominant force in popular culture, but that's over.

— Garry Trudeau

By the time you rise through the ranks, the culture of homogenization has bred the spirit and imagination out of you.

— Ralph Nader

“Culture stems from founders, but it is best reflected in the trusted team the founders form to launch their venture.”

— Eric Schmidt

I am not belittling the brave pioneer men but the sunbonnet as well as the sombrero has helped to settle this glorious…

— Edna Ferber

I celebrate every culture. I love the mix of cultures and I'm never going to change that because that's inspiring to me.

— Guido Palau

Our culture has changed. It has become more violent. People are literally afraid to go to the movies or to school.

— Patty Judge

It is a sure sign that a culture has reached a dead end when it is no longer intrigued by its myths.

— Greil Marcus

I'm interested in thinking about how are we contributing to the culture, what we can write that might help us deepen the…

— Alison Hawthorne Deming

West Side Story' was a very integral part of my upbringing. It was the first time I had seen my culture represented…

— Rachel Zegler

“All culture, whatever significance it may have, just as all education, civilization, development, is absolutely powerless to renew the inner man.”

— Herman Bavinck

For me it's the high-water mark of American culture - not so much contemporary jazz, which has become kind of academic, but…

— Flea

Animism characterizes tribes very low in the scale of humanity, and thence ascends, deeply modified in its transmission, but from first to…

— Edward Burnett Tylor

It is a nonsense to me when people come along and tell me not to be pessimistic; or that culture has always…

— Howard Jacobson

All English people have a fascination with Jack the Ripper. I don't know why, because it's so dreadful, but such a strange,…

— Jane Goldman

American books reflect our common heritage with many other nations and their influence upon our culture. The influences are endless, linking us…

— Robert Kennedy

If we define 'thought collective' as a community of persons mutually exchanging ideas or maintaining intellectual interaction, we will find by implication…

— Ludwik Fleck

“Finally, every society develops a system of aesthetic standards that get manifested in everything from decorative art, music, and dance to the…

— David Livermore

Each of us has interests which conflict the interests of everybody else... 'everybody else' we call 'society'. It's a powerful opponent and…

— Anonymous

When members of a society wish to secure that society's rich heritage they cherish their arts and respect their artists. The esteem…

— Maya Angelou

All play aspires to the condition of paradise...through play in all its forms...we hope to achieve a state that our larger Greco-Roman,…

— A. Bartlett Giamatti

The thing itself is never just out there in the world waiting to be framed by the photographer's Leica; rather, it is…

— Abigail Solomon-Godeau

I love living in Vermont and I love living in New York. Does my love for Vermont give us the right to…

— Michael Hastings

Civilization is a process in the service of Eros, whose purpose is to combine single human individuals, and after that families, then…

— Sigmund Freud

We must recognize what in our accepted tradition is damaging to our fate and dignity-and shape our lives accordingly.

— Albert Einstein

I think that cultural influence is very deep, it is not on the surface and this is true in every culture.

— Michael Craig-Martin

Money is like a mirror to our culture. What we see tells us who we are.

— Jacob Needleman

“The tradition of all dead generations weighs like a nightmare on the brains of the living.”

— Karl Marx

Culture is a collaborative exercise, and I think everybody will do their bit to help it grow.

— Grayson Perry

I can't pretend that I don't subscribe to Internet music culture in that I discover new music and old music simultaneously.

— Alan Palomo

Apl has a lot of songs that are paying homage to his native tongue. He's from the Philippines. He has songs inspired…

— Taboo

I can't understand why culture cops try and impose their brand of morality on others.

— Shefali Zariwala

Russia is a part of European culture. Therefore, it is with difficulty that I imagine NATO as an enemy.

— Vladimir Putin

Mad Men - it seems like they try to capture this glamorized version of the '50s and '60s advertising culture.

— Geoffrey Gray

The easiest way to subjugate a people is to erase a culture. I've seen it in war zones.

— Morgan Neville

One thing that is not to be underestimated is American cultures influence on the rest of the world.

— Yael Stone

“If there is no art, no culture, then what the fuck are we going to talk about? These are our stories and…

— Dave Hickey

But foremost, I do not subscribe to the view that Islamic culture and democracy cannot be reconciled.

— Recep Tayyip Erdogan

Eventually the revolutionaries become the established culture, and then what will they do

— Linus Torvalds

When I started graduate school I was interested in the culture of the Civil Rights Movement.

— Bernice Johnson Reagon