Quotes About Culture

There is no document of civilization which is not at the same time a document of barbarism.

Elvis Presley is the main founding father of rock music. He was an unheralded genius behind a new music that changed western civilization for all time.

Art is to me the glorification of the human spirit, and as such it is the cultural documentation of the time in which it is produced.

The attitude of people associating guns with nothing but crime, that is what has to be changed. I grew up at a time when people were not afraid of people with firearms.

Every time someone ends a prayer in the Western world they say Amen - that is the name of an Egyptian god associated with completion. So we're still praying to their gods.

We spend so much time condemning, critiquing, and copying culture we miss on actually changing it. Be a creator not a hater.

Today's religion will be the future's mythology. Both believed at one time by many; but proved wrong by the clever.

How we preserve time for family is one of the most significant issues we face in most cultures.

I would rather be a member of this [Afrikan] race than a Greek in the time of Alexander, a Roman in the Augustan period, or Anglo-Saxon in the nineteenth century.

Culture outperforms strategy every time; and culture with strategy is unbeatable.

You're always a child of your time, and you cannot step out of that.

The surface of American society is covered with a layer of democratic paint, but from time to time one can see the old aristocratic colours breaking through.

The artist's job is to be a witness to his time in history.

There is a role and function for beauty in our time.

One of the things I love about Africa is the amount of dignity and respect and humility you see all the time. You don't realise how often you're disrespected until you are surrounded by respect.

I was brought up in many different cultures, moving around all the time, and I find my identity in my songs. I project the identity I want to have throughout the songs that I write.

[Seeing an ornately chained Native American for the first time] What Eden have they torn you from?

A culture truly changes only when a new way of operating has been shown to succeed over some minimum period of time.

In Hawaii they say, "aloha." That's a nice one, It means both "hello" and "good-bye" Which just goes to show, if you spend enough time in the sun you don't know whether you're coming or going.

Historians and archaeologists will one day discover that the ads of our time are the richest and most faithful reflections that any society ever made of its entire range of activities.

The time has come to move beyond eco-elitism to eco-populism. Ecopopulism. To change our laws and culture, the green movement justice, political solutions and social change.

I was born in Waukegan a long, long time ago. As a matter of fact, our rabbi was an Indian.

The boys of my people began very young to learn the ways of men, and no one taught us; we just learned by doing what we saw, and we were warriors at a time when boys now are like girls.

I came to see, in my time at IBM, that culture isn't just one aspect of the game; it is the game.