Quotes About Culture

There was something built into the human brain by natural selection which was once useful, and which now manifests itself as religion.

We need a cybersecurity renaissance in this Country that promotes cyber hygiene and a security centric corporate culture applied and continuously reinforced by peer pressure

Something about the cultural tradition of Jews is way, way more sympathetic to science and learning and intellectual pursuits than Islam.

I want to feel the surging Of my sad people's soul Hidden by a minstrel-smile.

The Philippines is where Asia wears a smile. Beautiful products can only be made by happy people.

I am ashamed of my century for being so entertaining but I have to smile.

The vulgar only laugh, but never smile; whereas well-bred people often smile, but seldom laugh.

Good manners, Madam, are had these days not For your asking, nor mine, nor what-we-used-to-be's. The day is a loud grenade that bursts a smile Of serious weeds in a comic lily plot.

Universal deities ... never seem to smile. Not in any culture. What's the point of having omnipotence if you don't enjoy it?

We live in a society of an imposed forgetfulness, a society that depends on public amnesia.

One quick way to destroy a society is through its music.

The society that loses its grip on the past is in danger, for it produces men who know nothing but the present, and who are not aware that life had been, and could be, different from what it is.

We, in Africa, have no more need of being 'converted' to socialism than we have of being 'taught' democracy. Both are rooted in our past -- in the traditional society which produced us.

Typography is a hidden tool of manipulation within society.

Man is a moral being, only because he lives in society. Let all social life disappear and morality will disappear with it.

All men are intellectuals, but not all men have in society the function of intellectuals.

We're involved in a society which is undergoing some really weird changes now.

If religion has given birth to all that is essential in society, it is because the idea of society is the soul of religion.

For after all, a poster does more than simply supply information on the goods it advertises; it also reveals a society's state of mind

To reorganize society without God or King, by the systematic culture of Humanity.

I could never be a country person, sitting around trees trying to write a song. I would rather be in the middle of society, whether it's growing or crumbling.

The fidelity question is difficult for me. Society has made us believe we're supposed to be monogamous when we're not killer whales, or whatever the monogamous species is.

There's a lot of conning as part of our society, I think.

Our society distributes itself into Barbarians, Philistines and Populace; and America is just ourselves with the Barbarians quite left out, and the Populace nearly.