Quotes About Culture

You cannot have both truth and what you call civilisation.

Paraguayans have no Italian blood and are half Guarani [Indian] blood. And the Chileans call themselves "the English of South America," which actually couldn't be further from the truth.

At a time when politics deals in distortions and half truths, truth is to be found in the liberal arts. There's something afoot in this country and you are very much a part of it.

I mean the truth is, I've always been interested in the whole setup of the old world.

In China, much of life involves skirting regulations, and one of the basic truths is that forgiveness comes easier than permission.

If you walked around like David Bowie in 1973 in Reading, you'd get beaten up. The 1970s in a small town was more like the 1950s.. and that's the truth. The backdrop was probably Victorian.

Writers are the moral purifiers of the culture. We may not be pure ourselves but we must tell the truth, which is a purifying act.

Truth-loving Persians do not dwell upon The trivial skirmish fought near Marathon.

I come from a culture that embodies the need to convert others to "the truth." The Mormon Church has one of the largest missionary programs in the world. That does not interest me.

Truth is, generally I like film festivals; somewhere at some level there's an exchange of ideas.

Truth is a relationship. As such, each one of us receives the truth and expresses it from within, that is to say, according to one's own circumstances, culture, and situation in life.

Every misogynist came out of a woman.

The majority of India's adult and elderly population is too medieval to think as civilized, rational and progressive human beings.

Since when has outright denial of truth become a Nigerian factor?

The truth is that no internal reviews or congressional hearings will change the Secret Service's broken management culture. It needs better leadership.

A library is more precious than a bank.

We did all the tourist crap, but I just wanted to sit in a cafe and watch people

...oppression is as American as apple pie...

Ladies did not participate in 'situations'.

the disappearance of an audience that had supported experimentation and made such works financial, as well as critical, successes. The decline of liberal-arts teaching in schools and colleges meant that the new audience was less cultured and intellectually oriented; wedded to television and movies, it wanted to be entertained rather than challenged.

Pavitt's goal was to build a national network of like-minded people to fend off what he called "the corporate manipulation of our culture" by the media centers of New York and Los Angeles.

We came from a punk perspective—we did not want to get sucked into a corporate culture where basically you're signing a contract because you don't trust the other person to live up to their word

Although Mission of Burma and some of the other great Boston bands at the time were truly world class, the indie rock scene in Boston was pretty small and generally unknown to the populace at large," says Kates. "In a city where money and education and insurance and things like that dominate the workforce, what we did wasn't understood by the average person.

you might, through an act of bravery—demonstrable, jaw-dropping, minimalist bravery—provoke people to see that there was a behavioral barrier, not a technical or financial barrier, to being up onstage and making the culture happen right now with you and everybody else in the room.