Culture Quotes - Page 5

• Culture is like wealth; it makes us more ourselves, it enables us to express ourselves

  Philip Gilbert Hamerton

  Wealth

  Philip Gilbert Hamerton (1886). “Human Intercourse”

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• In so far as he is a creator, the artist does not belong to a social group already moulded by a culture, but to a culture which he is by way of building up.

  Andre Malraux

  Artist, Building Up, Groups

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• So American culture is itself a hybrid and lends itself to use in other people's hybrids.

  Todd Gitlin

  People, Use, Hybrid

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• People today read less, take fewer museum trips, and attend fewer concerts. Is that because these activities aren't as fun? The decline... can be traced, at least in part, to unconscious stimuli that make us live faster.

  Frank Partnoy

  Fun, Museums, People

  Frank Partnoy (2012). “Wait: The useful art of procrastination”, p.56, Profile Books

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• I have strong sentiments toward Iran, since I distinguish between the Iranian regime and the Iranian people. I highly esteem Iranian music and culture.

  Moshe Katsav

  Strong, Iran, People

  "Interview: Israeli President Discusses Iran Nuclear Standoff". www.rferl.org. March 20, 2006.

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• People can only live fully by helping others to live. When you give life to friends you truly live. Cultures can only realize their further richness by honoring other traditions. And only by respecting natural life can humanity continue to exist.

  Daisaku Ikeda

  Helping Others, People, Giving

  Daisaku Ikeda (2014). “Journey of Life: Selected Poems of Daisaku Ikeda”, p.233, I.B.Tauris

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• A man should be just cultured enough to be able to look with suspicion upon culture at first, not second hand.

  Samuel Butler

  Men, Hands, Firsts

  Samuel Butler, Hans-Peter Breuer (1984). “The Note-books of Samuel Butler: 1874-1883”, Univ Pr of Amer

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• Culture is a little like dropping an Alka- Seltzer into a glass- you don't see it, but somehow it does something

  Hans Magnus Enzensberger

  Glasses, Doe, Littles

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• We can aim to create a culture, where kids ask for healthy options instead of resisting them.

  Michelle Obama

  Kids, Healthy, Aim

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• The arts, like language, emerged spontaneously and universally in similar forms across cultures, employing imaginative and intellectual capacities that had clear survival value.

  Denis Dutton

  Art, Survival, Intellectual

  Denis Dutton (2009). “The Art Instinct: Beauty, Pleasure, & Human Evolution”, p.5, Oxford University Press, USA

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• I plant a lot of trees. I am a great believer in planting things for future generations. I loathe the now culture where you just live for today.

  Penelope Keith

  Nature, Grandchildren, Tree

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• Much of the rest of the world has already learned some English. They pretty much understand the American way of doing things, because our culture has been ubiquitous and has been the 500-pound gorilla in the global economy. But the world is far more interrelated than ever before, and no one culture can thrive without the knowledge of how to function in other cultures.

  Bill Vaughan

  Other Cultures, Gorillas, Way

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• Just learning to think in another language allows you to see your own culture in a better viewpoint.

  Gates McFadden

  Thinking, Viewpoints, Language

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• Two half-truths do not make a truth, and two half- cultures do not make a culture

  Arthur Koestler

  Two, Half, Half Truth

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• The ideal of a single civilization for everyone, implicit in the cult of progress and technique, impoverishes and mutilates us

  Octavio Paz

  Civilization, Progress, Technique

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• Rastafari not a culture, it's a reality.

  Bob Marley

  Music, Reality

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• Every now and again, the alternative culture is cherished by the mainstream for what it is, rather than how it should be, like the mainstream popular music.

  Thurston Moore

  Alternatives, Mainstream, Should

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• For the first time, the weird and the stupid and the coarse are becoming our cultural norms, even our cultural ideal.

  Carl Bernstein

  Stupid, Firsts, Becoming

  "An A-Z of Cultural Terms". www.theguardian.com. October 28, 2000.

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• There is something terribly wrong with a culture inebriated by noise and gregariousness.

  George Steiner

  Noise, Gregariousness

  The Daily Telegraph, May 23, 1989.

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• The welfare culture tells the man he is not a necessary part of the family; he feels dispensable, his wife knows he is dispensable, his children sense it.

  George Gilder

  Children, Men, Wife

  George Gilder (2012). “Wealth and Poverty: A New Edition for the Twenty-First Century”, p.171, Regnery Publishing

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• The bourgeoisie and the petty bourgeoisie have armed themselves against the rising proletariat with, among other things, culture. It's an old ploy of the bourgeoisie. They keep a standing art to defend their collapsing culture.

  George Grosz

  Art, Bourgeoisie, Rising

  George Grosz, Heartfield, Wieland Herzfelde (1987). “Art Is in Danger”

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• But the idea that women can't take care of themselves still permeates our culture.

  Katherine Dunn

  Ideas, Care, Stills

  "Just as Fierce". www.motherjones.com. November/December 1994.

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• What moves me is neither ethnocentric pride nor sectarian arrogance. I make no claim that Jewish culture is superior to other cultures. But it is mine.

  Theodore Bikel

  Moving, Pride, Other Cultures

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Shaft was a pop culture figure along t he lines of, I guess, Dirty Harry - except that he wasn't as much of a racist. So yeah, I was always a fan.

  Jeffrey Wright

  Dirty, Fans, Racist

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• My main mistake was to have made an ancient people advance by forced marches toward independence, health, culture, affluence, comfort.

  Mohammed Reza Pahlavi

  Mistake, People, Independence

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