A culture is in its finest flower before it begins to analyze itself. — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
As long as one people sit on another and are deaf to their cry, so long will understanding and peace elude all… — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
In a word, the consumer of mass culture is lonely, not only lonely, but spiritually impoverished. — Walker Percy Copy Share Image
The blue-collar culture, it's not really a buttoned-up aesthetic. It's a heavy-labor thing because you're, like, sweating. — Virgil Abloh Copy Share Image
All human activity takes place within a culture and interacts with culture. — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
Syncopations are no indication of light or trashy music, and to shy bricks at 'hateful ragtime' no longer passes for musical culture. — Scott Joplin Copy Share Image
The ideal of a single civilization for everyone, implicit in the cult of progress and technique, impoverishes and mutilates us — Octavio Paz Copy Share Image
Over recent years, urbanisation, globalisation and the destruction of local cultures has led to a rise in the prevalence of mental illness… — Iain McGilchrist Copy Share Image
Because when you have millions of people with this kind of need for gratification, and the culture is saying that it's possible… — Taylor Hackford Copy Share Image
Noise has taken the place of punk rock. People who play noise have no real aspirations to being part of the mainstream… — Thurston Moore Copy Share Image
Growing up, I saw Mum as being so celebratory of our culture. So I was surprised to hear - during discussions sparked… — Miquita Oliver Copy Share Image
One of our problems is the culture of Brazil which focuses on men's football. Of course we would like to change that.… — Marta Copy Share Image
The great thing about a culture is that once you really get it going, it evolves on its own. It's self-organizing. It's… — John Mackey Copy Share Image
Anything that's ever gotten on the charts as a result of "American Idol" or "The X Factor" in the UK. It's born… — Johnny Marr Copy Share Image
We live in a culture that paces itself to the speed of machines. We are trying like good little robots to match… — Tian Dayton Copy Share Image
Self-reinvention is an essential trope of the American project, closely linked to another such trope: going on the lam. Both are regularly… — Luc Sante Copy Share Image
As we progress along the intercultural journey, we become self-reflective about habits of heart and mind and the ways these are expressed… — H. Ned Seelye Copy Share Image
English is my second language, but in Hong Kong, they don't know that I'm from China. They think I'm from Hollywood because… — Bai Ling Copy Share Image
Africa is one continent, one people, and one nation. The notion that in order to have a nation it is necessary for… — Kwame Nkrumah Copy Share Image
So you have the ownership of the Phoenix Suns, the Los Suns, and whoever - "We don't want to offend the portion… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
Like commercial stuff is sort of cheap and disposable and fun and can be sort of interesting in many ways. I love… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
I think the basic culture of this country is European and Christian and I think that if we lose that, we lost… — David Duke Copy Share Image
A beautiful woman in our culture, and I would like to say, you know, this was different in 1962, but it still… — Tom Ford Copy Share Image
Art has a prophetic role, denouncing the culture it lays bare. — Langdon Brown Gilkey Copy Share Image
