Quotes About Culture

One has to understand what the enemy is all about: the enemy's history, the enemy's culture, the enemy's aspirations. If you understand these well, you can perhaps move towards peace.

The more refined one is, the more unhappy.

I ask all people of goodwill to help build a culture of encounter, solidarity and peace

Human war has been the most successful of our cultural traditions.

Most higher education is devoted to affirming the traditions and origins of an existing elite and transmitting them to new members.

Excessive economic, social and cultural inequalities among peoples arouse tensions and conflicts, and are a danger to peace.

Let us join our efforts toward building the unshakable foundations for a culture of peace.

Americans will listen, but they do not care to read. War and Peace must wait for the leisure of retirement, which never really comes: meanwhile it helps to furnish the living room.

Popular culture is a place where pity is called compassion, flattery is called love, propaganda is called knowledge, tension is called peace, gossip is called news, and auto-tune is called singing.

The people of Egypt, are the greatest people of earth; and they deserve a Nobel Prize for Peace. To all Egyptian: Be proud to be Egyptian.

He who cherishes the value of cultures cannot fail to be a pacifist.

I find myself more at peace when I live in Europe.

If we are genuinely committed to promoting a culture of peace, as individuals we must look to our values and ensure that we all exhibit a peace loving life to our nation's children.

If you don't like Beyonce, then it's hard for me to trust you. It's like not liking world peace.

Nations rise and fall, flourish and decay, by what they believe in and by what their culture stands for.

What 'War and Peace' is to the novel and 'Hamlet' is to the theater, Swan Lake' is to ballet - that is, the name which to many people stands for and sums up an art form.

Birds, birds, birds, I'm a Pet Shop Boy

I don't think I'd want my pet in formaldehyde, but I guess in America they would.

It's always weird to eat something that is a pet elsewhere.

A bottle of wine contains more philosophy than all the books in the world.

Young people everywhere have been allowed to choose between love and a garbage disposal unit. Everywhere they have chosen the garbage disposal unit.

When you're born you get a ticket to the freak show. When you're born in America, you get a front row seat.

when a language dies, a way of understanding the world dies with it, a way of looking at the world.

The proverbial philosophy of a people helps us to understand more about them than any other kind of literature.