Quotes About Culture

When I hear the word "culture"… I reach for my pistol.

Zorunsuzluk kültürü dünyaya yönelmesi muhtemel bir öfke kültürüdür ve bu kültürün a??r? ucu, dünyan?n y?k?m?na çal??makt?r.

La muerte en España es como un amigo, un compañero que se conoce en el campo o en el taller. Nadie se alborota cuando viene. Se quiere a los amigos, pero no se les importuna. Se los deja ir y venir como quieran. Quizá sea el viejo fatalismo de los moros que reaparece aqui, después de encubrirse durante siglos bajo los rituales de la Iglesia católica".

I have a neighbor who knows 200 types of wine. … I only know two types of wine — red and white. But my neighbor only knows two types of countries — industrialized and developing. And I know 200.

I doubt that Fleming could have obtained a grant for the discovery of penicillin on that basis [a requirement for highly detailed research plans] because he could not have said, 'I propose to have an accident in a culture so that it will be spoiled by a mould falling on it, and I propose to recognize the possibility of extracting an antibiotic from this mould.

I have always believed that it is the artist who creates a work, but a society that turns it into a work of art. - Johannes Cladders

I think that one of the things I have always found most attractive about art and music and culture is the experience of how it can change one's thinking. This has always been the big pay-off for me. - Tony Conrad

When everything is blocked off,' I was told by a dear friend who lives in Erfurt, "one must try to live in the interstices.' Apparently, the Christians of the Apocalypse, though they did not bear the sign of the beast, had discovered or created such spaces. From islands like these, true culture, Christian culture, may spread across the earth. Many people are athirst for it.

inculcated with a healthy national consciousness.

Oviedo y Valdes, Bat? Hint Adalar?'nda hastal?ktan (büyük ihtimâlle frengi) çekmi? ilk hristiyan yerle?imcilerden bahseder ve ekler: "?talyanlar?n buna 'Frans?z Hastal???' ve Frans?zlar?n da 'Napoli Hastal???' dedi?ini duyup çok güldüm; asl?nda ikisi de 'Hint Adalar? Hastal???' deseymi? daha yerinde olurmu?.

A cultured society that has fallen away from its religious traditions expects more from art than the aesthetic consciousness and the 'standpoint of art' can deliver. The Romantic desire for a new mythology... gives the artist and his task in the world the consciousness of a new consecration. He is something like a 'secular saviour' for his creations are expected to achieve on a small scale the propitiation of disaster for which an unsaved world hopes.

It is the tyranny of hidden prejudices that makes us deaf to what speaks to us in tradition.

El juego es una función elemental de la vida humana, hasta el punto de que no se puede pensar en absoluto la cultura humana sin un componente lúdico.

It was his own miscegenation--his sensual enjoyment of a dark forbidden culture and his own forbidden longings and love--that dovetailed in his writings.

If you're not with family on major holidays, people worry, calling to see if you're being sufficiently festive, yelling at you if you eat Chee-tos for phans by circumstance, geography, or choice, but a cultural conspiracy was afoot to make us feel otherwise. Work, I decided, was the antidote.

Today the prevailing fad is vitamins, yesterday it was appendicitis operations, Paderewski's minuet, or the ouija board.

It is not the spirit of wealth, of learning, or of culture that can make the church of value, or a power for good in the world, but the spirit of Christ only.

The only difference between the East and the West seems to be that you have ancestors and we are going to be ancestors.

And this is the stuff," said he to himself, "that makes possible the civilization that produces them.

Criticism in the universities, I'll have to admit, has entered a phase where I am totally out of sympathy with 95% of what goes on. It's Stalinism without Stalin.

I would say that there is no future for literary studies as such in the United States.

The purpose of education is to keep a culture from being drowned in senseless repetitions, each of which claims to offer a new insight.

Every company has two organizational structures: The formal one is written on the charts the other is the everyday relationship of the men and women in the organization.

By the mid-1920s, psychoanalysis had become all the rage among urban sophisticates. After diverting themselves with humorist Robert Benchley's "All Aboard for Dementia Praecox!