Culture Quote by George Steiner Download Open image “There is something terribly wrong with a culture inebriated by noise and gregariousness.” — George Steiner ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.0 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Culture Noise
As a culture I see us as presently deprived of subtleties. The music is loud, the anger is elevated, sex seems lacking in sweetness… — Shelley Berman Copy Share Image
I speak a lot about what I call "the trance of unworthiness" which is really epidemic in our culture, this sense of "I'm not… — Tara Brach Copy Share Image
We live in a culture where were bombarded with so much noise and so much insecurity. — Lisa Ling Copy Share Image
We live in a culture where we're bombarded with so much noise and so much insecurity. — Lisa Ling Copy Share Image
If a culture doesn't allow you to laugh at the leaders or at things that your eyes and ears tell you are actually happening,… — Lorne Michaels Copy Share Image
Now it seems like there is no culture. The school of fish are all separate. Everybody's just randomized, listening to their own thing in… — DJ Quik Copy Share Image
When a culture is being dumbed down as effectively as ours is, its narrative arts (literature, film, theatre) seem to vacillate between the brutal… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
There's so much terrible stuff in the clubs: you see audience's minds being polluted by awful language and base thoughts. But perhaps some people… — Omid Djalili Copy Share Image
We are in the process of creating what deserves to be called the idiot culture. Not an idiot sub-culture, which every society has bubbling… — Carl Bernstein Copy Share Image
“But there is a third mode of trancendence: in it language simply ceases, and the motion of spirit gives no further outward manifestation of… — George Steiner Copy Share Image
Words that are saturated with lies or atrocity, do not easily resume life. — George Steiner Copy Share Image
Every one of my opponents, every one of my critics, will tell you that I am a generalist spread far too thin in an… — George Steiner Copy Share Image
The very opposite of freedom is cliche, and nothing is less free, more inert with convention and hollow brutality, than a row of four-letter… — George Steiner Copy Share Image
Books are in no hurry. An act of creation is in no hurry; it reads us, it privileges us infinitely. The notion that it… — George Steiner Copy Share Image
To starve a child of the spell of the story, of the canter of the poem, oral or written, is a kind of living… — George Steiner Copy Share Image
I have every reason to believe that an individual man or woman fluent in several tongues seduces, possesses, remembers differently according to his or… — George Steiner Copy Share Image
I believe that a work of art, like metaphors in language, can ask the most serious, difficult questions in a way which really makes… — George Steiner Copy Share Image
To a degree which is difficult to determine, the esoteric impulse in twentieth-century music, literature and the arts reflects calculation. It looks to the… — George Steiner Copy Share Image
Books are in no hurry. An act of creation is in no hurry; it reads us, it privileges us infinitely. — George Steiner Copy Share Image
“The inception of human consciousness, the genesis of awareness, must have entailed prolonged 'condensations' around intractable nodes of wonder and terror, at the discriminations… — George Steiner Copy Share Image
The immense majority of human biographies are a gray transit between domestic spasm and oblivion. — George Steiner Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Philosopher is a dictator who modifies accepted standards with his thoughts. — Ilkin Santak Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Our times demand the declaration of the world's resources as the common heritage of all people. — Jacque Fresco Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I don't think the distinction between high and low culture exists anymore. — Jeremy Scott Copy Share Image