Quotes About Culture

For me, reading begins at home.

A society living by the laws of the world is moving towards a global crisis in all spheres of life

Language is life and a true backbone of any society!

We are truly defined by what we pass on to the next generation.

In a world where pleasure rules, people tend to be undeveloped in every way. " A House Like a Lotus

In my life, I've seen enormous increase in the consumption of poetry. When I was young, there were virtually no poetry readings.

I love travel, it promotes open-mindedness, and I believe that the interactions you have as you go places and meet people all sharpen the mind.

The African continent has so many stories to tell, it's about time they are told, by them - not us.

We live in a culture of violence.

We are what we think about and meditate on. Look around people! America is a buffet of violence

Art is a mirror of time, it must reflect a moment.

Music has been a part of the cultural expression of virtually every culture ever studied. It may even extend into prehistoric times. A 35,000-year-old flute made from bird bone has been discovered,

Americans 2 years of age and older now spend an average of four hours and 49 minutes per day in front of the TV—20 percent more than 10 years ago. And we are getting this exposure at younger and younger ages, made all the more complex because of the wide variety of digital screen time now available. In 2003, 73 percent of kids under 6 watched television every day. And children younger than 2 got two hours and five minutes of "screen time" with TVs and computers per day.

The irony here, and it's not a small one, is that our culture is anything but bereft of myths. Whatever the sources of our many problems, a myth shortage is emphatically not among them.

Somewhere behind the bland emotionless labels favored by contemporary culture lies a tangled realm of unmentioned motives and murky passions, where petroleum – the black blood of the earth, as shamans and loremasters in a surprisingly large number of cultures call it – has become an anchor for fantasies of omnipotence and dreams of destiny, and that realm must be confronted directly in order make sense of where our civilization is headed.

In a certain sense, of course, that's exactly what was going on. I say "in a certain sense" because it's very difficult to talk about magic in modern industrial society and be understood clearly. That's not because magic is innately difficult to understand. It's because our culture has spent the last two thousand years or so doing its level best not to understand it.

There is no language like the Irish for soothing and quieting.

Athens, the eye of Greece, mother of artsAnd eloquence.

The historian has been the hearth at which the soul of the country has been kept alive.

The gross heathenism of civilization has generally destroyed nature, and poetry, and all that is spiritual.

When you steal a people's language, you leave their soul bewildered.

America may be unique in being a country which has leapt from barbarism to decadence without touching civilization.

France is going to endure, and I'll tell you [ISIS people who attacked Paris ] why. If you're in a war of culture and lifestyle with France, good fucking luck, because go ahead, bring your bankrupt ideology. They'll bring Jean-Paul Sartre, Edith Piaf, fine wine, Camus, Camembert, madeleines, macarons, Marcel Proust and the fucking croquembouche. You just brought a philosophy of rigorous self-abnegation to a pastry fight, my friend. You are fucked.

The German language is so sonorous, isn't it? Beautiful language...the language of poetry. Angry, angry poetry.