It is a sure sign that a culture has reached a dead end when it is no longer intrigued by its myths.
I have made more friends for American culture than the State Department. Certainly I have made fewer enemies, but that isn't very difficult.
And where I grew up in Australia, surfing was a part of culture.
I believe in mythology. I guess I share Joseph Campbell's notion that a culture or society without mythology would die, and we're close to that.
We're warriors, this culture, and we're very puritanical about sex and very embracing about violence and I don't know why that is.
Reality TV is sleazy, it is manipulative. It is as momentary as anything in popular culture.
We know that a man can read Goethe or Rilke in the evening, that he can play Bach and Schubert, and go to his day's work at Auschwitz in the morning.
Quite a lot of our contemporary culture is actually shot through with a resentment of limits and the passage of time, anger at what we can't do, fear or even disgust at growing old.
High culture is nothing but a child of that European perversion called history, the obsession we have with going forward, with considering the sequence of generations a relay race in which everyone surpasses his predecessor, only to be surpassed by his successor. Without this relay race called history there would be no European art and what characterizes it: a longing for originality, a longing for change. Robespierre, Napoleon, Beethoven, Stalin, Picasso, they're all runners in the relay race, they all belong to the same stadium.
Our attitude toward our own culture has recently been characterized by two qualities, braggadocio and petulance. Braggadocio - empty boasting of American power, American virtue, American know-how - has dominated our foreign relations now for some decades. Here at home - within the family, so to speak - our attitude to our culture expresses a superficially different spirit, the spirit of petulance. Never before, perhaps, has a culture been so fragmented into groups, each full of its own virtue, each annoyed and irritated at the others.
In the room the women come and go talking of Michelangelo.
Ours is a culture based on excess, on overproduction; the result is a steady loss of sharpness in our sensory experience. All the conditions of modern life - its material plenitude, its sheer crowdedness - conjoin to dull our sensory faculties
The manner of their living is very barbarous, because they do not eat at fixed times, but as often as they please
Human life is reduced to real suffering, to hell, only when two ages, two cultures and religions overlap.
Black culture is something I don't relate to much at all.
Hiring people is an art, not a science, and resumes can't tell you whether someone will fit into a company's culture.
Peace cultures thrive on and are nourished by visions of how things might be, in a world where sharing and caring are part of the accepted lifeways for everyone.
We have really got to create a culture in our world today where we recognize that every human life is sacred and precious and we have no right to take another human life.
Every nation has its prestigious military academies - or so few of them - that reach not only the virtues of peace but also the art of attaining it? I mean attaining and protecting it by means other than weapons, the tools of war. Why are we surprised whenever war recedes and yields to peace?
Well, it's an adventure story, and a Bildungsroman, of course, but there was also the intention to describe a culture that had been seen in rather narrow terms.
California is full of Mexican culture and Mexican music.
I think it's one of the scars in our culture that we have too high an opinion of ourselves. We align ourselves with the angels instead of the higher primates.
Americans want our leaders to defend our values, our culture our legacy of liberty and our way of life, not apologize...
There must not be a canon of orthodoxy where art is judged and measured. The culture cannot move forward with our heads turned backwards.
A universal renunciation of violence requires the commitment of the whole of society. These are not matters of government but matters of State; not only matters for the authoirities, but for society in its entirety, including civilian, military, and religious bodies. The mobilization which is urgently needed to effect the transition within two or three years from a culture of war to a culture of peace demands co-operation from everyone. In order to change, the world needs everyone.
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