Quotes About Culture

Amish?" Darly said. "Is that a genetic anomaly or infectious disease?

The Amish were coming.

A veces hay que atacar a la gente con sus propias armas. El truco está en no mostrar ni la más mínima duda mientras se habla y en incluir al menos a un reconocido autor de éxito, preferiblemente a uno del que efectivamente se haya leído algo. Además, cuanto más exóticos y extranjeros sean los nombres, mejor.

What I'm doing is art - it's low-brow art but there's a magic in that.

Yet even as the possibility that all conflicts might yield to skilled application of technical knowledge assuaged the popular imagination, some scholars and analysts were sounding alarms about the dangers of a culture-free conception of conflict. And we began to push back against the received view that conflicts required only mechanically technical solutions.

Impressed deep in the psyche of America, the most literate society ever founded, was the idea that you could improve yourself—morally, philosophically, financially—through the written word.

Often, there may be a culture of a hidden reward system that encourages heroics and a "cowboy culture". For instance, one person may work throughout the night for an entire weekend fighting a fire and get rewarded as the hero who saved the day. What is overlooked is that if one person can save the entire boat, one person can probably sink it, too.

I do seriously think that the most profound criticism of the culture of our time can be found in a sentence which, I believe, was written by Artemus Ward, which runs, I think: "It isn't so much people's ignorance that does the harm as it is their knowing so many things that ain't so.

Pintman Paddy Losty. Some of Dublin's great pintmen have been known to put away thirty pints or more in a day

I like American history.

A culture finds the gods it needs

In 1651, in Leviathan, it was Thomas Hobbes who first advanced the contention that without top-down state controls we'd turn, rather effortlessly, into a bunch of brutish savages. And there's more than a grain of truth in such a notion. But Pinker argues from a more bottom-up perspective, and while certainly not denying the importance of legal restraints, also insinuates a gradual process of cultural and psychological maturation.

Precisely why this downturn in social values should have come about is not entirely clear.

When we are numbed by the constant inflow of sense experiences that our culture provides, it can become hard to feel anything more than superficially.

It's not even about you. It's just what people like to do online.

We live in an outrage culture.

the twenty-first-century evangelical church is on the verge of selling its Protestant birthright, sola scriptura, for a mess of pottage, sola cultura.

a cultura é o software de uma sociedade, um programa para cultivar a humanidade e dar forma à sua liberdade. (p. 154)

As American as an apple is and as American as baseball is, they don't go together. You can't be chewing an apple at a baseball game. You've got to let go of the diet that day.

Every 12 months we produce 8 million new songs, 2 million new books, 16,000 new films, 30 billion blog posts, 182 billion tweets, 400,000 new products.

But the general trends of the products and services in 30 years are currently visible. Their basic forms are rooted in directions generated by emerging technologies now on their way to ubiquity. This wide, fast-moving system of technology bends the culture subtly, but steadily, so it amplifies the following forces: Becoming, Cognifying, Flowing, Screening, Accessing, Sharing, Filtering, Remixing, Interacting, Tracking, Questioning, and then Beginning.

This wide, fast-moving system of technology bends the culture subtly, but steadily, so it amplifies the following forces: Becoming, Cognifying, Flowing, Screening, Accessing, Sharing, Filtering, Remixing, Interacting, Tracking, Questioning, and then Beginning.

Great Books of the Western World.

From the days of Sumerian clay tablets until now, humans have "published" at least 310 million books, 1.4 billion articles and essays, 180 million songs, 3.5 trillion images, 330,000 movies, 1 billion hours of videos, TV shows, and short films, and 60 trillion public web pages.