Quotes About Culture

Then, the stunningly white cubes that make up the Getty Museum. It's an architectural masterpiece funded by a venal billionaire's trust, housing third-rate art. Pure L.A.: might makes right and packaging is all. Traffic

chefs, the Guatemalans, sometimes

I believe that one can never be an elegant man without a taste for reading.

what exactly is postmodernism, except modernism without the anxiety?

Mi spieghi, per favore, cosa intende per razza. Perché per me è un concetto scientificamente indefinibile e quindi privo di valore teorico.

It's cloaked in cultural mumbo jumbo, but I assure you that it is very hard science.

I'm not a Jew. I'm Jew-ish. I don't go the whole hog.

I'm not really a Jew; just Jew-ish, not the whole hog.

Minorities are always better off in a culture which protects dissent than in a culture which protects us from dissent.

As "teenager" became a group identity, a distinctive teen ethos and identity emerged; youth culture, as it became known, was born.

images of middle-aged men surrounded by young women. And images of middle-aged men posing atop motorcycles while surrounded by young women.

Instinctively, machine culture is skeptical of or hostile to freelancers and insurgents, though it may pay them lip service, and it is most friendly to loyalists and repeat players—the people who have skin in the game and will most reliably respond to incentives, people otherwise known as hacks.

He took aim at the core of American culture, the vast universe of people who imagined themselves to be decent but never dwelled on the shame of American racism.

Or, to take the analogy imagined by Amos Oz and Fania Oz-Salzberger in Jews and Words, the reader today who consumes "Tolstoy and Toni Morrison with his morning coffee while skimming two news sites on his electronic device and perusing the small print on his breakfast cereal package.

To defend a country you need an army, but to defend a civilization you need education.

Stabilizing the euro is one thing, healing the culture that surrounds it is another. A world in which material values are everything and spiritual values nothing is neither a stable state nor a good society. The time has come for us to recover the Judeo-Christian ethic of human dignity in the image of God.

Parents and leaders must establish a culture in which honest, open, respectful communication takes place, one that involves not just speaking but also listening. Without it, tragedy is waiting in the wings.

The crucial differentiation between humans and all other animals is that we make meanings, and the name we give to collective systems of meanings is culture.

There are indeed moral universals — the Hebrew Bible calls them 'the covenant with Noah' and they form the basis of modern codes of human rights. But they exist to create space for cultural and religious difference…

Applying inflexible rules to a constantly shifting political landscape destroys societies. Communism was like that. In free societies, people change, culture changes, the world beyond a nation's borders does not stand still. So a politician will find that what worked a decade or a century ago does not work now. In politics it is easy to get it wrong, hard to get it right.

As historian Will Durant wrote: "A great civilization is not conquered from without until it has destroyed itself from within."1

The appearance of antisemitism in a culture is the first symptom of a disease, the early warning sign of collective breakdown.

Judaism is supremely a religion of freedom – not freedom in the modern sense, the ability to do what we like, but in the ethical sense of the ability to choose to do what we should, to become co-architects with God of a just and gracious social order. The former leads to a culture of rights, the latter to a culture of responsibilities: freedom as responsibility.

Yet there is no verb in biblical Hebrew that means to obey.