Quotes About Culture

Rock n' roll seems to have changed society much more than any politician, I think it really has.

When shame is missing from corporate life, society, quickly becomes uncivilized.

All of us who professionally use the mass media are the shapers of society. We can vulgarise that society. We can brutalise it. Or we can help lift it onto a higher level.

Toys are intriguing, and I want to see what I can do with them. On a deeper level, they represent one way that society socializes its young

Men build society and society builds men.

Every society and religion has rules, for both have moral laws. And the essence of morality consists, as in art, of drawing the line somewhere.

That millions of people share the same forms of mental pathology does not make these people sane.

Society cannot exist without etiquette ... It never has, and until our own century, everybody knew that.

Every society gets the kind of criminal it deserves.

Most people catch their presuppositions from their family and surrounding society the way a child catches measles.

A saint is a person who behaves decently in a shockingly indecent society.

We, as a society, we have PhDs in victimizing a victim.

There is no comparing the brutality and cynicism of today's pop culture with that of forty years ago: from High Noon to Robocop is a long descent.

From my films, you can at least learn about Iran, you can get a sense of the history and the society. But no such films have been made about Afghanistan, so you really can't know much about it.

I believe that our society is merely a reflection of what is going on inside each and every one of us.

I can admit there are some problems in hip hop but it is only a reflection of what's taking place in our society. Hip hop is sick because America is sick.

Drugs are merely the most obvious form of addiction in our society. Drug addiction is one of the things that undermines traditional values.

History is important. More than any other topic, it is about us. Whether one deems our present society wondrous or awful or both, history reveals how we got to this point.

Only conservatives believe that subversion is still being carried on in the arts and that society is being shaken by it.

This so-called contemporary art is not a form, but a philosophy of society.

Widespread caffeine use explains a lot about the twentieth century.

Libraries are a hallmark of a civilized culture, and librarians represent that culture to all facets of society.

Violence in our society has reached epidemic proportions. ... Violence in the media for entertainment purposes has been established as a major contributing factor.

as a society emphasizes and values some aspects of the total range of human potentials more than others, the valued aspects are associated closely with, and limited to, the dominant group's domain.