Quotes About Culture

If we want to produce people who share the values of a democratic culture, they must be taught those values and not be left to acquire them by chance.

In the vast majority of cases the secret society symbolism hearkens from two places - Ireland and Egypt.

Schools and libraries are the twin cornerstones of a civilized society. Libraries are only good if people use them, like books only exist when someone reads them.

Humor has historically been tied to the mores of the day. The Yellow Kid was predicated on what people thought was funny about the immigrant Irish. When you're different in a society, you're funny.

Without the law, you can't have society. But without the arts, you can't have civilisation

Society develops wit, but its contemplation alone forms genius.

Aesthetic matters are fundamental for the harmonious development of both society and the individual.

The business of a scientific school is the dissemination of useful knowledge, and this is a noble enterprise and indispensable withal; society can not exist unless it goes on.

Successful guilt is the bane of society

TV has had a stronger impact on our society than any single invention since the automobile. It has put the dead hand on conversation.

I wonder how it is we have come to this place in our society where art and nature are spoke in terms of what is optional, the pastime and concern of the elite?

There is no society that does not highly value fictional storytelling. Ever.

We are the only species on the planet, so far as we know, to have invented a communal memory stored neither in our genes nor in our brains. The warehouse of this memory is called the library

Every fundamentalist movement I've studied in Judaism, Christianity and Islam is convinced at some gut, visceral level that secular liberal society wants to wipe out religion.

I guess music, particularly the blues, is the only form of schizophrenia that has organised itself into being both legal and beneficial to society.

For some strange reason we don't go to charming, light movies anymore. People expect a movie to be heavy and turgid, like "American Beauty." We've become a heavy-handed society.

Ours is a post-Christian world in which Christianity, not only in the number of Christians but in cultural emphasis and cultural result, is no longer the consensus or ethos of our society.

If you want to find out what it means to have a society without any rituals, read the New York Times.

I think the classical music is on a dangerous downward slope, because it's not seeking strong enough resonance with its society.

To encourage excellence is to go beyond the encouraged mediocrity of our society

One ought not to hoard culture. It should be adapted and infused into society as a leaven. Liberality of culture does not mean illiberality of its benefits.

Over all, many of society's values are a cesspool.

A society or culture which is disposed to view the world in Manichean terms will be more vulnerable to control by propaganda.

Psychotherapy theory turns it all on you: you are the one who is wrong. If a kid is having trouble or is discouraged, the problem is not just inside the kid; it's also in the system, the society.