If the story-teller is to nourish the roots of his…

If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to follow his vision wherever it takes him.

— John F. Kennedy

“I wanted my children to grow up where I grew up, to have proper roots in a culture as old and magnificent as Britain’s;…

— J.K. Rowling

I mean, the genuine roots of culture is folk music.

— John Lydon

Folk music takes us back to the roots of our culture.

— Tulsi Kumar

Dig into the roots of culture, and it will grow. It's like a grass that is growing, and it cannot stop, and music is…

— Burning Spear

I believe that art can make relevant and progressive contributions to culture and society.

— Trevor Paglen

Here we must distinguish between society and culture. A society can be interested in a man or woman only as a political or economic…

— Laurence Boldt

Feminism gave me a way to see myself in culture, in society, in history, and that was very important.

— Vivian Gornick

And it is this sense that some of us have to contribute to the culture, to the society in ways that may hurt financially,…

— Gunther Schuller

In Elizabethan England or classical Athens... theater was at the center of, not culture, but society and politics and religion and civic engagement. Those…

— Diane Paulus

There's too much democracy in the culture, not enough in the society.

— Fran Lebowitz

As we honor and take time to appreciate the arts we expand the beauty and culture of society.

— Senoraroy

“In the end, people are only able to think and feel within the limits of the "system", the specific culture of the society they…

— Yukito Ayatsuji

Don't let a culture or society's rules define who you are; you define who you are.

— Amma Asante

We are under attack. Our culture, society, traditions, and way of life are at risk.

— Matteo Salvini