Quotes About Culture

Am I a nihilistic postmodernist or a New Ager in academig drag?

The ecological thought affects all aspects of life, culture, and society.

Whenever you believe that the evil outside you is greater than the evil inside you, a heartfelt pursuit of Christ will be replaced by a zealous fighting of the "evil" around you. A celebration of the grace that rescues you from your own sin will be replaced by a crusade to rescue the church from the ills of the surrounding culture. Christian maturity becomes defined as a willingness to defend right from wrong. The gospel is reduced to participation in Christian causes.

Some time around 1932, Adolf Loos, the noted Viennese architect, said, "There is a great difference between an urn and a chamber pot, and in this difference there is leeway for culture.

One may learn a great deal of a people by the stories they tell of others.

Learn about art, Captain," Thrawn said, his voice almost dreamy. "When you understand a species' art, you understand that species.

One may learn a great deal about a people by the stories they tell of others.

Artists were individuals. But they were also products of their culture and history and philosophy. The weave of artist and culture was evident to the discerning eye. The fundamental pattern of a species could be sketched, then drawn, then fully fleshed out.

Estudie arte, Capitán. Si entiende el arte de una especie, entiende a esa especie.

In the history of culture the discovery of zero will always stand out as one of the greatest single achievements of the human race.

This is another paradox of our era: as native-born people find themselves surrounded by foreign-born people, they become less likely to explore our own country or the world. They become homebodies. The proportion of young adults living at home nearly doubled between 1980 and 2008, before the Great Recession hit, and the trend continues to creep upward.

The educated class knows the value of good health to quality of life and is willing to pay for it. The poor are more likely to trap themselves in a culture of smoking, poor nutrition, obesity, drugs, and only sporadic attention from a physician.

A trend was a trend only because people thought it so. And in thinking it so, they made it so.

These people were so self-destructively open, so afraid to offend those who would just as soon see them and their children dead and their entire cultures destroyed. It was a pleasing vision, Mohammed thought, but he didn't live within dreams. Instead, he worked for them. This struggle would last longer than his lifetime.

How strange, Popov thought. If the Irish didn't like the English, then why did they emulate their driving patterns?

Morality in his country had been replaced by what was politically correct or incorrect.

Thus it is that the Internet, once heralded as an exciting new medium of communication, is now little more than a vast mail-order catalogue.

Worldwide, the mania for consumer goods has created a deadly culture of overwork.

Only centuries after the death of Jesus—by which time, astonishingly, even the Caesars had been brought to acknowledge him as Christ—did his execution at last start to emerge as an acceptable theme for artists.

humanity generally gets the Gods it deserves.

five guidelines that can improve your next karaoke experience—and your innovation culture: • Keep your sense of humor • Build on the energy of others • Minimize hierarchy • Value team camaraderie and trust • Defer judgment—at least temporarily

And they went off down the street, into the heart of Mardi Gras Day.

New Orleans music lovers, black, white, young and old, are much more likely to be found in places where they can dance to the music they love, holler encouragement, sing along and, if at all possible, eat and drink at the same time.

Mac Rebennack, better known as Dr. John, once told me that when a brass band plays at a small club back up in one of the neighborhoods, it's as if the audience—dancing, singing to the refrains, laughing—is part of the band.