Quotes About Culture

One of the stupidest theories of Western life.

For me, what makes life enjoyable is having a shared culture and shared references.

The Nobel Prize has given me, for the first time in my life, the feeling that my literature could be appreciated on an international level.

When I'm writing poetry, 99.9% of my writing begins in English. I spent most of my life in English, although I am bilingual.

Look closely at the Japanese; they draw admirably and yet in them you will see life outdoors and in the sun without shadows.

Say no to an ephemeral, superficial and throwaway culture, a culture that assumes that you are incapable of taking on responsibility and facing the great challenges of life!

Christians will want to be in the vanguard in favoring ways of life that decisively break with the exhausting and joyless frenzy of consumerism.

...a nation could change its way of life, its history, its technology, its art, literature, and culture, but it would never have a real chance to change its gestures.

Culture of dependency leads to a life of slavery, being totally dependent upon government. And government dictates where they go in life.

Life in the Middle East is quite different from other places.

The clerisy are those who seek, and find, delight and enlargement of life in books. The clerisy are those for whom reading is a personal art.

Most of my father's life consisted of traveling to almost every part of Europe.

The most common trait of all primitive peoples is a reverence for the life-giving earth.

Israel is the only place on earth where Jews have the possibility to shape public life according to their own traditional ideals.

I wish everybody was just ethnically ambiguous. It would make life a lot easier.

Every person, every race, every nation, has its own particular keynote which it brings to the general chord of life and of humanity.

Male genitals are still called "the tree of life" by the Arabs, and a cross was one of the oldest diagrammatic images of male genitals.

There is no reason for amazement: surely one always knew that cultures decay, and life's end is death.

I use Spanish dancing as a way to exercise. I've done that for my whole life.

As the ongoing industrial crusade to turn all earthly life to commercial purpose relentlessly impoverishes the biosphere and human culture, our living images of graceful possibility dwindle.

Ritual is the most primitive reflection of serious thought, a slow deposit, as it were, of people's imaginative insight into life.

I've had to spend an awful lot of my life trying to pretend I'm not posh. Although once I open my mouth, I rather let things out the bag.

Midge Ure: In Slik, there were just girls in the audience. In Ultravox, the boys started to come too, in mackintoshes and moustaches. There were always lots of men at Ultravox concerts.

Siddhartha's priority was to get down to the root of the problem. Buddhism is not culturally bound. Its benefits are not limited to any particular society and have no place in government and politics. Siddhartha