Old Culture Quotes

• I have some advantages of viewing from the two lenses, the two perspectives. I think that a lot of visual artists who come back here from the United States and are Cambodian also write from their American references - looking inside the old culture, and looking at themselves as an American looking into the country where they were born.

  Chath Piersath

  Country, Writing, Thinking

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• The old culture had come out of poverty, out of English customs.

  Charlie Munger

  Culture, Poverty, Customs

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• When people say that L.A. doesn't have a culture, I think it really does: a very old culture, and very specific. There's streets named after entertainers, and statues of entertainers, and it's great. Entertainment is still art, even if it makes billions of dollars. So it's like a city built on entertainment, and art in a way.

  Fred Armisen

  Art, Thinking, Cities

  Interview with Amelie Gillette, www.avclub.com. January 11, 2006.

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• But a people unable to reform will not be able to preserve its old culture either.

  Lu Xun

  People, Reform, Culture

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• In the case of the Indian villager, an age-old culture is hidden under entrustment of crudeness.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Age, India, Culture

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• Ours is certainly not an old culture. Yet in recent decades we've used more energy, destroyed more soil, created more pathogenicity (temporarily stopped some too, for sure), mutated more bacteria, and dumped more toxicity on the planet than all the cultures before us-combined. I love the United States, but I am not blind to the wrongs. I have no desire to live anywhere else, but that doesn't mean I think everything we're doing should be done or can be maintained.

  Joel Salatin

  Mean, Thinking, Desire

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• The new culture war is about national identity rather than religion and 'transcendent authority.' It focuses on which groups the United States will formally admit to residence and citizenship. It asks the same question as the old culture war: 'Who are we?' But the earlier query was primarily about how we define ourselves morally. The new question is about how we define ourselves ethnically, racially and linguistically. It is, in truth, one of the oldest questions in our history, going back to our earliest immigration battles of the 1840s and 1850s.

  E. J. Dionne

  War, Battle, Identity

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• When the forms of an old culture are dying,
  the new culture is created by a few people who are not afraid to be insecure.

  Rudolf Bahro

  Insecure, People, Dying

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• Life now insists that we encounter groundlessness. Systems and ideas that seemed reliable and solid dissolve at an increasing rate. People who asked for our trust betray or abandon us. Strategies that worked suddenly don't. Groundlessness is a frightening place, at least at first, but as the old culture turns to mush, we would feel stronger if we stopped searching for ground, if we sought only to locate ourselves in the present and do our work from here.

  Margaret J. Wheatley

  Ideas, People, Soul

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• One of the West's singular migrations - from the Azores to California's Great Central Valley - is given faces and voices in Anthony Barcellos's new novel, Land of Milk and Money. Along with its triumphs, the Francisco family embodies the challenges to an immigrant family in a new land, including the often ignored difficulties posed by success and the loss of the old culture. A must read...

  Gerald Haslam

  Loss, Land, Voice

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• When a scholar of the old culture vows no longer to have anything to do with men who believe in progress, he is right. For the old culture has its greatness and goodness behind it, and an historical education forces one to admit that it can never again be fresh.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Believe, Greatness, Men

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• Blood mixture and the result drop in the racial level is the sole cause of the dying out of old cultures; for men do not perish as a result of lost wars, but by the loss of that force of resistance which is continued only in pure blood. All who are not of good race in this world are chaff.

  Adolf Hitler

  War, Loss, Men

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• Those who have most at stake in the old culture, or are most rigid in their beliefs, try to summon people back to the old ideas.'

  Marilyn Ferguson

  Learning, Ideas, People

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• Art at its most significant is a Distant Early Warning System that can always be relied on to tell the old culture what is beginning to happen to it.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Art, Dew, Culture

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