Culture Quote by Abdurrahman Wahid

What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions. Life is plurality, death is uniformity. By suppressing differences and…

— Octavio Paz

Philosopher is a dictator who modifies accepted standards with his thoughts.

— Ilkin Santak

A lot of indigenous cultures are deeply involved in working with ancestor spirits, elemental spirits, and demons. Many of these cultures feel that, if…

— Daniel Pinchbeck

In the hearing world, I'm constantly having to lip-read and trying to understand what's going on. Sign language is so beautiful. It gives you…

— Rose Ayling-Ellis

I was born and raised in Orlando, where the economy and culture has been powerfully shaped by tourism, and so I've long been interested…

— Laura van den Berg

Our times demand the declaration of the world's resources as the common heritage of all people.

— Jacque Fresco

The U.S.-Mexican border es un herida abierta where the Third World grates against the first and bleeds. And before a scab forms it hemorrhages…

— Gloria E. Anzaldúa

What it comes down to for me is this: Will the technologies of communication in our culture, serve to enlighten us and help us…

— Roger Waters

I think it's useful to experience other types of dance and other cultures, and the life of a classical dancer these days is certainly…

— Deborah Bull

In the movie, the stars above the ship bear no correspondence to any constellations in a real sky. Worse yet, while the heroine bobs...…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

It is not my intention to explain Turkey, its culture and its problems. My literature has a universal concern: I want to bring people…

— Orhan Pamuk

I don't think the distinction between high and low culture exists anymore.

— Jeremy Scott