Quotes About Culture

Sometimes the state and the constitution are more enlightened than society.

It is difficult to express the reality of Ibo society in classical English.

History is no easy science; its subject, human society, is inifinitely complex.

Religion is detrimental to the progress of society.

Society is an artificial construction, a defense against nature's power.

We either live or die based on how we live in cities, and our society is either going to be great or not based on how we perform as creatures of the city.

Years of misguided teaching have resulted in the destruction of the best in our society, in our cultures and in the environment.

Culture is a product of law. And laws create norms for society. This is why anyone who wants to change the culture of a country must try to change the norms of the country.

Jokes are one of the things that bind the culture. If you can't have jokes about everybody in society and if one group is hedged off and protected then that group can never truly be integrated.

Every human society possesses a mythology which is inherited, transmitted and diversified by literature.

If you change the society and a culture, the politics will follow.

Whether you think a film will affect society or it's plain entertainment, it's all excellent, it's all noble.

Artists are a free society's greatest advocates and its best bulwarks. Their triumphs are civilization's triumphs.

Every society by its own practice of living and by the mode of relatedness, of feelings, and perceiving, develops a system of categories which determines the forms of awareness.

You need people in a society to have reached a certain standard of living before they can be polite. You learn how to respect others because you don't have to fight as much, you have what you need.

The nature and extent of profanity and vulgarity in our society is a measure of its deterioration.

We are to a large extent an imitative society.

Quite often the social doctors become part of the disease.

There's too much democracy in the culture, not enough in the society.

There is one thing that has disappeared, not just from the U.S. but from the entire world, is the idea of ever being embarrassed by anything.

What people are afraid of can tell us a lot about society.

It takes a society to raise a generation.

That's one of the cool things about fame. You have an affect on society and where it goes.

The greatest films are those which show how society shapes man. The greatest plays are those which show how man shapes society.