We should see to it that our people are steeped in a real…

I'm not interested in embarrassing the United States. We as a nation need to foster a broader understanding of national security, and when in…

— Ryan Shapiro

We need to have a unified understanding of our national heritage without losing our personal distinctives. The closer that national heritage is to the…

— Tony Evans

The true foundation of all culture is the knowledge and understanding of water.

— Viktor Schauberger

I've always been a believer in research. It's great to have an instinctual human reaction to a character, too, of course, but it has…

— Chiwetel Ejiofor

I think the reason why I haven't done a film in India so far is because I haven't found a script that's completely gotten…

— Freida Pinto

All civilization in a sense exists only in the mind. Gunpowder, textile arts, machinery, laws, telephones are not themselves transmitted from man to man…

— Alfred L. Kroeber

Our knowledge and understanding of nonhuman animals is polluted far more than we acknowledge by our belief in our own superiority, our unrecognized cultural…

— Will Tuttle

The grain of real knowledge is concealed in a vast deal of esoteric chaff.

— Alfred Rupert Hall

If all our political and intellectual elite offers by way of a national culture is "pop music, gambling, fashionable clothes or television," then we…

— Anthony Daniels

A national culture, if it is to flourish, should be a constellation of cultures, the constitutes of which, benefiting each other, benefit the whole.

— T. S. Eliot

From blood banking to the modern subway, from jazz to social justice, the contributions of African Americans have shaped and molded and influenced our…

— Bill Frist

While [European] national cultures were concocted to distinguish one economic unit of capital from another, civilizational thinking was invented to unify these cultures against…

— Hamid Dabashi

There is in our society a gulf opening up, a kind of cultural apartheid, between those who are brought up to feel our national…

— Richard Eyre

The role of globalization is to homogenize all cultures, and to turn them into commodified markets, and therefore, to make them easier for global…

— Jerry Mander

We know that art is connected with the land, with its salt, with its smell, that outside of national culture there is no art.…

— Ilya Ehrenburg