Quotes About Culture

The fashions of the ages vary in this direction and that, but they vary for the most part from a central road which was struck out by the imagination of Greece.

Imagination without culture is crippled and moves slowly; but it can be pure imagination, and rich also, as folk-lore will tell the vainest.

Well-bred English people never have imagination.

The culture is with some rapidity fearing its imagination. I don't know why. Imagination is not of interest.

Those Dutchmen had hardly any imagination or fantasy, but their good taste and their scientific knowledge of composition were enormous.

It is good to know the truth but it is better to speak of palm trees.

India Conquered and dominated China culturally for 20 centuries without ever having to send a single soldier across her border.

Independence is useful, but caring attitudes and behaviors shrivel up in a culture where each person is responsible only for himself.

India has two million gods, and worships them all. In religion all other countries are paupers; India is the only millionaire.

It is not difficult to be unconventional in the eyes of the world when your unconventionality is but the convention of your set.

Egypt is kind of like the Hollywood of the Middle East. I mean, we had cinema maybe decades before the other Arab countries ever got independence.

Society values cooperation over independence, obedience over individuality, and niceness above all else.

Anything that's popular is a rear-view image.

The member of a primitive clan might express his identity in the formula "I am we"; he cannot yet conceive of himself as an "individual," existing apart from his group.

We are not taught to be thinkers, but reflectors of our culture. Let's teach our children to be thinkers.

The magic formula that successful businesses have discovered is to treat customers like guests and employees like people.

Hip-hop is a beautiful culture. It's inspirational, because it's a culture of survivors. You can create beauty out of nothingness.

Dance is for everybody. I believe that the dance came from the people and that it should always be delivered back to the people.

You know you're a redneck if your home has wheels and your car doesn't.

If you want to look young and thin, hang around old fat people.

Anyone interested in design must be interested in other fields of expression - theater, ballet, photography, literature, music.

As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it.

Other people have a nationality. The Irish and the Jews have a psychosis.

Every monument of civilization is a monument of barbarism