Quotes About Culture

We do have a distorted view of our fantasies in society, but that's because we don't talk about them enough.

Poetry, in the past, was the center of our society, but with modernity it has retreated to the outskirts. I think the exile of poetry is also the exile of the best of humankind.

You do not know our culture, our ethics, or the unwritten codes that already provide our society more order than could be obtained by any of your impositions.

One must conform to the baseness of an age or become neurotic.

Monks, nuns, long-term spinsters and bachelors and permanent homosexuals are all, in a reproductive sense, aberrant. Society has bred them, but they have failed to return the compliment.

Identify the dominant philosophy of a society and you can predict its future.

Men and women must be educated, in a great degree, by the opinions and manners of the society they live in.

Designers are to be in connection with what's happening with the movement of society.

So if we have anything original to offer, it's to speak from our own life about the society we're in.

A liberal education is at the heart of a civil society, and at the heart of a liberal education is the act of teaching.

Every society has the criminals it deserves.

Cinema will always have an important role to play in society.

I am afraid to live in the society we live in today. Our society cannot be maintained by this type of incompetency.

Homosexuality is not a civil right. Its rise almost always is accompanied, as in the Weimar Republic, with a decay of society and a collapse of its basic cinder block, the family.

Diversity creates harmony, and harmony creates beauty, balance, bounty and peace in nature and society, in agriculture and culture, in science and in politics.

We've turned into a whining society.

I feel like a sickness and dystrophy is growing in people, like people are getting sicker, something about our society, something about our psychological structures. We're not whole.

Long before we understand ourselves through the process of self-examination, we understand ourselves in a self-evident way in the family, society and state in which we live.

The dumbing down of the country reflects itself on Broadway. The shows get dumber, and the public gets used to them.

We have ripped the humanity out of our companies. It's threatening the very underpinnings of our society.

The society in which we live is the result of our psychological state.

Mark my words, when a society has to resort to the lavatory for its humour, the writing is on the wall.

Anybody who tries to change society without examining the family is trying to push a shadow without moving a statue.

I've come to the point of view that for European-American society and culture to persist requires a European-American majority, and a clear one at that.