Quotes About Culture

Needs are imposed by nature. Wants are sold by society.

The difference between our decadence and the Russians' is that while theirs is brutal ours is apathetic.

Poetry, whatever the manifest content of the poem, is always a violation of the rationalism and morality of bourgeois society.

Every society honours its live conformists and its dead troublemakers.

Some people think that religion is not essential to society. I do not hold this view. I consider the foundation of religion to be essential to the life and practices of a society.

In Elizabethan England or classical Athens... theater was at the center of, not culture, but society and politics and religion and civic engagement. Those things have a different audience.

It's no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.

It seems that our brave new world is becoming less tolerant, spiritual and educated than it ever was when I was young.

Africa is our center of gravity, our cultural and spiritual mother and father, our beating heart, no matter where we live on the face of this earth.

New York is my Lourdes, where I go for spiritual refreshment... a place where you're least likely to be bitten by a wild goat.

The world in which you were born is just one model of reality. Other cultures are not failed attempts at being you; they are unique manifestations of the human spirit.

Free yourself from the psychological structure of society, which is to free yourself from the essence of conflict.

The method of production of the material things of life generally determines the social, political and spiritual currents of life.

A sign of a culture that has lost its faith - Moral collapse follows upon spiritual collapse.

At the very center of our culture is a crucified man, a tortured man hanging on a cross of wood. You have an image of violence at the very center of our spiritual investigation.

To become wholly compassionate requires us to open our eyes and hearts, to behold the pain and exploitation our culture obscures, to arouse deadened emotions, and to rise above our egos.

Food: Part of the spiritual expression of the French, and I do not believe that they have ever heard of calories.

Spirituality is indeed the master-key of the Indian mind; the sense of the infinitive is native to it.

In this culture, God is not the highest entity; mukti or liberation is the highest goal. We are willing to use God as a stepping stone, if needed.

Modern art did not just happen. It came as a result of a deep reversal of spiritual values in the Age of Reason, a movement that in the course of a little more than two centuries changed the world.

Culture requires in the first place a certain balance of material and spiritual values.

For me dancing is not just moving your arms and legs but basically it's a very spiritual experience. It's part of me and a second nature to me. You can say it is in my blood.

Now, after the material resources of the colonies have been looted, their spiritual and cultural resources are being transformed into commodities for the world market.

The gross heathenism of civilization has generally destroyed nature, and poetry, and all that is spiritual.