Quotes About Culture

Accountable government does not come through elections. It comes through respect for law, through public spirit and through a culture of confession.

Verificationism arose in Vienna between the wars, as part of the 'culture of repudiation' whereby central Europe threw away its inheritance and committed moral suicide.

accountable government does not come through elections. It comes through respect for law, through public spirit and through a culture of confession. To

Unless and until people identify themselves with the country, its territory and its cultural inheritance – in something like the way people identify themselves with a family – the politics of compromise will not emerge. We

In the German city-states there emerged thereafter a high culture, in which literature, philosophy, music, art and architecture were all spurred on by the rivalry of local sovereigns and the spread of Enlightenment ideas.

All progress demands payment. These are the growing pains of which you speak, not the final results. Fool! There is no such thing as progress! Not as you see it! What good are all the machines and ideas you unloose in their cultures, if you do not change the men themselves?

Amber has never been noted for its squeamishness," she said. "You have been exposed to too much American journalism.

The nearby Hopis danced and prayed for rain. His people did not. They sought to live with their environment rather than to control it.

He pivoted on one buttock and broke wind. Dukhi leaned back to allow it free passage, wondering what penalty might adhere to the offence of interfering with the waft of brahminical flatus.

When a culture vansihes, humanity is the loser.

When a culture vanishes, humanity is the loser.

I think that cars today are almost the exact equivalent of the great Gothic cathedrals; I mean the supreme creation of an era, conceived with passion by unknown artists, and consumed in image if not in usage by a whole population which appropriates them as a purely magical object.

The text is a tissue of quotations drawn from the innumerable centres of culture.

The cultural work done in the past by gods and epic sagas is now done by laundry-detergent commercials and comic-strip character

To visit the Tower, then, is to enter into contact not with a historical Sacred, as is the case for the majority of monuments, but rather with a new nature, that of human space: the Tower is not a trace, a souvenir, in short culture; but an immediate consumption of a humanity made natural by that glance which transforms it into space.

Le langage est une peau: je frotte mon langage contre l'autre.

Grim evening at Gabès (windy, black clouds, hideous bungalows, "folklore" performance in the Hotel Chems bar): I can no longer take refuge in my thoughts: neither in Paris nor traveling. No escape.

It is by studium that I am interested in so many photographs, whether I receive them as political testimony or enjoy them as good historical scenes: for it is culturally (this connotation is present in studium) that I participate in the figures, the faces, the gestures, the settings, the actions.

that ambiguous area of culture where something unfailingly political, though separate from the political choices of the day, infiltrates judgment and language.

The pleasure of the sentence is to a high degree cultural. The artifact created by rhetors, grammarians, linguists, teachers, writers, parents -- this artifact is mimicked in a more or less ludic manner; we are playing with an exceptional object, whose paradox has been articulated by linguistics: immutably structured and yet infinitely renewable: something like chess.

There is an age at which we teach what we know. Then comes another age at which we teach what we do not know; this is called research. Now perhaps comes the age of another experience: that of unlearning, of yielding to the unforeseeable change which forgetting imposes on the sedimentation of the knowledges, cultures, and beliefs we have traversed.

photography is an ellipse of language and a condensation of an 'ineffable' society...

Forma bastard? a culturii de mas? este repetarea ruÅŸinoas?:se repet? conÅ£inuturile,schemele ideologice,ÅŸtergerea contradicÅ£iilor,dar se varieaz? formele superficiale:mereu alte c?rÅ£i,emisiuni,filme noi,fapte diverse,dar întodeauna acelaÅŸi sens

There are thus very engaging myths which are however not innocent.