Quotes About Culture

The history of publishing under the Third Reich has rarely been studied: it is a painful and fascinating example of the destruction of an entire culture which could exist only by way of books.

the institution of afternoon tea is suffering in an England that grows more American every day,

Just because politicians, scientists, and business execs are raging about it, and newspaper headlines are screaming it, doesn't mean the message sticks—or that people care. It takes more than that to change a culture. In

Jim Crookes, chief architect at BT, has observed, "Companies get the systems they deserve. A company's systems estate is a result of its culture, organizational history, and its funding structures. Coherent, well-integrated systems will only ever exist in companies that value coherence and integrated service.

Traditional marriage is what should be sanctioned.

It's great that people are basically spending their two weeks of vacation to come out and be with us in some weird part of the world. And I think we owe it to them to take 'em to some cool places.

In Seattle you haven't had enough coffee until you can thread a sewing machine while it's running.

That's one of the cool things about fame. You have an affect on society and where it goes.

If blues culture had developed under the conditions of oppressive, forced labor, hip-hop culture would arise from the conditions of no work.

Generations are fictions.

A book or a work of art--culture--cannot by itself change the world, but by asking questions that matter, it might attempt to be an act of articulation against violence, the brutal and the casual kinds. It might aspire to starting a conversation through which together we might find common meaning, and words that free.

Culture, like food, is necessary to sustain us. It molds us and shapes our relations to each other. An inequitable culture is one in which people do not have the same power to create, access, or circulate their practices, works, ideas and stories. It is one in which people cannot represent themselves equally. To say that American culture in inequitable is to say that it moves us away from seeing each other in our full humanity. It is to say that the culture does not paint a more just society.

But even more important, I think hip-hop has bridged the culture gap. It brings white kids together with Black kids, brown kids with yellow kids. They all have something in common that they love. It gets past the stereotypes and people hating each other because of those stereotypes. People

Millions wanted to see shows written, directed, and acted by people of colour telling stories about themselves. Duh.

If you've ever made change in the offering plate, you might be a redneck.

You may be a redneck if... you have spent more on your pickup truck than on your education.

If you own a home with wheels on it and several cars without, you just might be a redneck.

You might be a redneck if your dogs name is Miller Light

If you think the last four words to the national anthem are " gentleman, start your engines", You might be a redneck.

If you ahve ever unloaded your pickup by backing up really fast and slamming on the brakes, you might be a redneck.

If you think a quaterhorse is that ride in front of Kmart.. You might be a rednneck

Christmas was not officially restored as a full holiday in Scotland until 1958.

Movies, Burroughs continued, would be the ruin of the American intellect: "The average person goes to the moving-picture theater and looks at senseless films for a couple of hours, and goes away without having really had to use his brain once. . . . In the old days, he might have been spending that time with a book before him, which would have given him more information and would have made him exercise his brain a little to get it.

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