Quotes About Culture

A culture without property, or in which creators can't get paid, is anarchy, not freedom.

The real harm of term extension comes not from these famous works. The real harm is to the works that are not famous, not commercially exploited, and no longer available as a result.

Writing" is the Latin of our times. The modern language of the people is video and sound.

And with a practice of writing comes a certain important integrity. A culture filled with bloggers thinks differently about politics or public affairs, if only because more have been forced through the discipline of showing in writing why A leads to B.

Free culture depends upon vibrant competition. Yet the effect of the law today is to stifle just this kind of competition. The effect is to produce an over-regulated culture, just as the effect of too much control in the market is to produce an over-regulated-regulated market.

Esse protecionismo não visa proteger os artistas. Na verdade, esse é um protecionismo que visa proteger certas formas de negócio. As corporações ameaçadas pelo potencial da Internet em mudar a forma como tanto a cultura comercial quanto a não-comercial é feita e compartilhada se uniram para induzir os legisladores a usarem a lei para as protegerem. É o caso da RCA contra Armstrong; é o sonho dos Causbys.

La cultura es la invisible fuerza de la que la innovación depende. Solemos atribuir las invenciones a los individuos, no a las circunstancias. Designamos héroes y contamos sus historias. Pero la innovación es una empresa colectiva, producto tanto de las circunstancias como del genio.

To be scientifically illiterate is to remain essentially uncultured. And the chief virtue of a cultural activity--be it art, music, literature, or science--is the way it enriches our lives.

the need for gun control laws and a new moral climate.

the Feast of San Gennaro on Mulberry Street, one of the city's big ethnic festivals.

There are many countries where you can only believe more or you can believe less. But in the United States we have this incredible smorgasbord, and it really interests me why people are drawn to one faith rather than another, especially to a system of belief that to an outsider seems absurd or dangerous.

Christianity would be powerless to block this trend because it exists only in the realm of the spirit—"like a vision in a pure ideal world." Islam, on the other hand, is "a complete system" with laws, social codes, economic rules, and its own method of government. Only Islam offered a formula for creating a just and godly society. Thus

To possess another language is to possess another soul.

Una nueva sociedad crea su hogar, ese receptáculo de la vida.

The more defensive a society, the more conformist.

The anthropologist cannot always leave his own shadow out of the picture he draws.

In Vietnamese, the word for water and the word for a nation, a country and a homeland are one and the same: nu'o'c.

The classics are only primitive literature. They belong to the same class as primitive machinery and primitive music and primitive medicine.

It has been the sad experience of many that much of the best and the most beautiful is lost to those whose mental food consists exclusively of the sensational paper or the cheap novel, or of that frothy mass of waste material which is thrown up like scum upon the molten metal of life--novelettes, serials, and fragments of a type which neither teach the ignorant, nor strengthen the weak, nor develop the immature.

In England, coffeehouses were dubbed penny-universities, because for the admission price of one cent, a person could sit and be edified all day long by scholars, merchants, travelers, community leaders, gossips, and poets.

A self without a shelf remains cryptic; a home without books naked.

like it or not, what we dress in is a direct reflection of who we are personally, socially, and historically.

Por eso es imprescindible comprender a fondo las culturas del mundo. —Y añadió—: He aprendido no solo a valorar esto, sino también a apreciarlo. Lo que hace del mundo un lugar interesante son nuestras diferencias, no nuestras similitudes566.»

The Africans wouldn't consider it a real visit unless they ate.