Culture Quotes · Page 114

Only faith in Christ gives rise to a culture contrary to egotism and death.

— Pope John Paul II

Culture is to know the best that has been said and thought in the world

— Matthew Arnold

The only conflict that is possible in Soviet culture is the conflict between good and best.

— Andrei Zhdanov

We don't have a superhero culture. Comic books and superheroes are part of American culture. We have 'Amar Chitrakatha,' etc.

— Vikramaditya Motwane

As citizens, we must prevent wrongdoing because the world in which we all live, wrong-doer, wrong sufferer and spectator, is at stake.

— Hannah Arendt

There are a lot of reasons to be hated in pop culture, and being a straight white male is one of them.…

— John Rzeznik

I believe that we have a responsibility to make culture available for all people, not only those who can afford to go…

— Lexi Alexander

Accuracy is not only in the home. Philosophers often bring accuracy to their thoughts.

— Ilkin Santak

When I took charge of Pakistan, I stopped and had a look from the outside before making any judgement calls. I got…

— Mickey Arthur

Just in the past few years - since I've been making movies, which isn't a very long time - you now have…

— Neil LaBute

The more money you make, the more the culture already attracts you to serve it, with an aura of glitter and power,…

— Fady Joudah

If I wasn't doing this, I'd be in school studying political science or socioeconomic something. I love visiting different cultures and finding…

— Eliza Dushku

Civilization is built on a number of ultimate principles... respect for human life, the punishment of crimes against property and persons, the…

— Max Nordau

Well, do I think watching 35 hours of TV a week is a terrific thing to do? Not particularly. But do I…

— Charles Murray

Writing is a recording that you can cut up and reassemble. Sound is something you can cut up and reassemble. Film, video…

— Genesis P-Orridge

“I believe he was feeling a bit nervous. Possibly it was my costume that took him aback. I was dressed quite well,…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“On the second and the third night there was again a ball -- this time in mid-ocean, during a furious storm sweeping…

— Ivan Bunin

We are all in favor of immigration that determines who gets in, the quantity of people who get in, whether they assimilate…

— Rush Limbaugh

I always thought that in the countries that the modernity kicks in later, it seems that everything changes on the surface, the…

— Asghar Farhadi

“The passion with which native intellectuals defend the existence of their national culture may be a source of amazement; but those who…

— Frantz Fanon

Over time we are able to undermine habitual modes of thinking formed by our self-made self in early childhood, which tries to…

— Thomas Keating

If you're going to get up to Walt Whitman and Robert Frost and Langston Hughes and Sylvia Plath you've got to figure…

— Robert Hass

Good buildings make and are made by their settings, and they are appropriately different in different locations. Climate, culture, topography and materials…

— Jaquelin T. Robertson

In time, [a Martian] colony would grow to the point of being self- sustaining. When this stage was reached, humanity would have…

— Paul Davies

By virtue of my traditions, and my community, I worked hard to ensure that I was accepted as part of the traditional…

— Anonymous

It is a luxury to do something that serves no practical purpose: the luxury of civilization.

— Anonymous

I did a degree in media and culture studies in London and moved there when I was eighteen from Paris.

— Stacy Martin

I don't think 'Cocktail' was a perfect critical success, but it touched a vein in our culture.

— Elisabeth Shue

Internet as a service is like culture that you have to understand, and each country has a local culture.

— Masayoshi Son

Maybe the culture is [particularly] shabby now. Maybe it's because I'm over sixty, that I can feel that about everything.

— Leonard Cohen

I'm not too fond of the typical Australian activities or culture. I'm not into surfing.

— Jens Lekman

The easier it is to do something, the harder it is to change the way you do it.

— Steve Wozniak

Anytime a culture is in economic stress, ugly things start happening.

— John Lithgow

How can one not speak about war, poverty, and inequality when people who suffer from these afflictions don't have a voice to…

— Isabel Allende

“If women cannot eat the same food as men, we cannot experience equal status in the community.”

— Naomi Wolf

I think, for the most part, our culture embraces that artists are born, not made.

— Chris Van Allsburg

The land flourished because it was fed from so many sources--because it was nourished by so many cultures and traditions and peoples.

— Anonymous

“That's what you did when someone was having a hard time. You fed them. It was a tradition that crossed all cultures.”

— Nichole Chase

Fetters of gold are still fetters, and the softest lining can never make them so easy as liberty.

— Mary Astell

Doing any kind of culture in America in which you are not trying to affirm a European aesthetic is war.

— George C. Wolfe