Quotes About Culture

Our ambitions are bold and so must be our desire to change and evolve our culture.

My tendency to idealize Western civilization arises from my nationalistic desire to use the West in order to reform China. But this has led me to overlook the flaws of Western culture.

To increase desires to an unbearable level whilst making the fulfillment of them more and more inaccessible: this was the single principle upon which Western society was based.

Suddenly I've got an overwhelming desire to surround myself with the aura of classical and Romantic art.

Do we have free will, or do the mass media and our culture control us, our desires and actions, from the moment we're born?

It is true that the Chinese are not so religious as the Hindus, or even as the Japanese; and they are certainly not so religious as the Christian missionaries desire them to be.

I see Canada as a country torn between a very northern, rather extraordinary, mystical spirit which it fears and its desire to present itself to the world as a Scotch banker.

For a French person, lack of desire in someone is really seen as a defect.

Civility is a desire to receive civilities, and to be accounted well-bred.

Sometimes, whether a desire is excessive or negative depends on the circumstances or society in which you live in.

Pop music can play a large part in the way numerous young people determine their right to desire and their need to question.

What we are confronted with now is a growing perception that if we desire a certain type of civilization and culture we must exterminate the sort of people who do not fit into it.

You perceive, do you not, that our national fairy tales reflect the inmost desires of the Briton and the Gaul?

In the states we all have this idea, everyone who wants to be the next best singer, next best dancer. Those same wants and desires are in India, too.

I don't think it is wrong, racist, immoral or anything, for a country to say 'we will decide what the cultural identity and the cultural destiny of this country will be and nobody else'.

It might be inevitable that we have to confront the idea that our destiny is to be one world with one language.

The destiny of nations depends on how they nourish themselves.

Each nation has an identity and destiny. As far as Bharat is concerned, Hindu is its identity and religion is its way of working

It's my manifest destiny to wear a skirt in all countries.

To be a Jew is a destiny

I hate France. It's like the whole country's on a diet

A symbol is an important thing. That is why we chose an Aztec eagle. It gives pride...When people see it they know it means dignity.

There are too many black players. Italy has no dignity, no pride.

Education can give you a skill, but a liberal education can give you dignity.