Quotes About Culture

The larger society has to recognize some degree of autonomy for the minority: the right to practice their own religion and way of life and to some extent their language.

France is a very paternalistic society where people have to be introduced.

The family has always been the cornerstone of American society.

Our society is just less open to platitudes, more open to stories.

I never had secure, belonging feelings with this society [in China].

If we were a primitive society, movie stars would be gods.

We should be asking: How do we respond to a post-Christian society?

There cannot be a "good" society until there are "good" men.

Even when I started in 1970, I knew that television was having a negative effect on our society.

There is a genius of a nation, which is not to be found in the numerical citizens, but which characterizes the society.

[The currency of being celebrity] used to be only the elect had any manna in the information society and everyone else was a consumer.

Among Hindu groups, none has made as great an impact on America as the Vedanta Society.

...if our humanity - our soul as a society - is overtaken by the materiel and cosmetic, there will be no hope of peace.

For society, of all places I have ever been, Norwich is the best.

Every object in the world can pass from a closed, silent existence to an oral state, open to appropriation by society, for there is no law, whether natural or not, which forbids talking about things

Only sometimes I try to think about it in context. When I think about the context of, "Oh, I'm this or that," in this society, that's one of the terms.

I think forgiveness plays a very important part in Western society and it comes from the Judeo Christian heritage.

The urge to consume is fathered by the value system which emphasizes the ability of the society to produce.

In all earlier civilizations, it should be remembered, commerce was treated as a narrow activity and by no means the senior sector in society.

But we're still in somewhat a Puritanical society in a lot of ways.

An artist should be well read in the best books, and thoroughly high bred, both in heart and bearing. In a word, he should be fit for the best society, and should keef out of it.

If you say one gets influenced watching a character, I think its foolish. Cinema reflects society; society rarely reflects cinema.

The entertainment industry is vast and is a reflection of the society we live in.

We live in a celebrity-obsessed society.