Culture Quotes - Page 17

• Wherever Germany extends her sway, she ruins culture.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Germany, Ruins

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2012). “Ecce Homo”, p.38, Courier Corporation

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• But the real intent of my writing is not to say, you must think in this way. The real intent is to enrich: here are some of the many important facets of this extraordinary Kosmos; have you thought of including them in your worldview? My work is an attempt to make room in the Kosmos for all the dimensions, levels, domains, waves, memes, modes, individuals, cultures, and so on ad infinitum.

  Ken Wilber

  Real, Writing, Thinking

  Ken Wilber (2001). “A Theory of Everything: An Integral Vision for Business, Politics, Science and Spirituality”, p.140, Shambhala Publications

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• A man should have a farm or a mechanical craft for his culture. We must have a basis for our higher accomplishments, our delicate entertainments of poetry and philosophy, in the work of our hands.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Philosophy, Men, Hands

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1166, Delphi Classics

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• Ours is a youth culture, and like a golf tournament, we honor only low scores.

  Bill Cosby

  Golf, Honor, Youth

  Bill Cosby (1987). “Time Flies”

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• And finally comes culture, which is entertainment, relaxation, transport out of the pain of living.

  John Steinbeck

  Pain, Relaxation, Entertainment

  John Steinbeck (2002). “East of Eden”, p.190, Penguin

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• But there is no doubt that to attempt a novel of ideas is to give oneself a handicap: the parochialism of our culture is intense. For instance, decade after decade bright young men and women emerge from their universities able to say proudly: 'Of course I know nothing about German literature.' It is the mode. The Victorians knew everything about German literature, but were able with a clear conscience not to know much about the French.

  Doris Lessing

  Men, Ideas, Giving

  Doris May Lessing (1989). “The Doris Lessing Reader”, Jonathan Cape

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• I have no feud, either with my employers, any sponsors, or with the professional critics of radio and television. But I am seized with an abiding fear regarding what these two instruments are doing to our society, our culture and our heritage.

  Edward R. Murrow

  Two, Radio, Our Society

  Radio-Television News Directors Association Convention Address, delivered 15 October 1958, Chicago, Illinois

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• Cultures are not the source of all morals, only a limited set of morals. Cultures can be graded and judged morally according to their contribution to the evolution of life.

  Robert M. Pirsig

  Moral, Evolution, Source

  Robert M. Pirsig (1991). “LILA An Inquriry into Morals”

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• The highest culture is not obtained from the teacher when at school or college, so much as by our ever diligent self-education when we become men.

  Samuel Smiles

  Teacher, School, College

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• Architecture is the constant fight between man and nature, the fight to overwhelm nature, to possess it. The first act of architecture is to put a stone on the ground. That act transforms a condition of nature into a condition of culture; it's a holy act.

  Mario Botta

  Fighting, Men, Stones

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• I reluctantly concluded that there was no way for me to help bring into being the Muslim culture I'd dreamed of, the progressive, irreverent, skeptical, argumentative, playful and unafraid culture which is what I've always understood as freedom.... Actually Existing Islam ... which makes literalism a weapon and redescription a crime, will never let the likes of me in.

  Salman Rushdie

  Islam, Weapons, Way

  "Excerpts From Rushdie's Address: 1,000 Days 'Trapped Inside a Metaphor'". Address at Columbia University, www.nytimes.com. December 12, 1991.

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• Islam doesn't have to mean blind faith. It can mean what it always meant in your family, a culture, a civilization, as open-minded as your grandfather was, as delightedly disputatious as your father was.... Don't let the zealots make Muslim a terrifying word, I urged myself; remember when it meant family.

  Salman Rushdie

  Father, Mean, Civilization

  "Excerpts From Rushdie's Address: 1,000 Days 'Trapped Inside a Metaphor'". Address at Columbia University, www.nytimes.com. December 12, 1991.

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• The act of migration puts into crisis everything about the migrating individual or group, everything about identity and selfhood and culture and belief. So if this is a novel about migration it must be that act of putting in question. It must perform the crisis it describes.

  Salman Rushdie

  Identity, Migration, Groups

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• You go to the cinema and you realize you're watching the third act. There is no first or second act. There is this massive film-making where you spend this incredible amount of money and play right to the demographic. You can tell how much money the film is going to make by how it does on the first weekend. The whole culture is in the crap house. It's not just true in the movies, it's also true in the theater.

  Dustin Hoffman

  Weekend, Play, House

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I do not care to be esthetically tickled in a fancy theater surrounded by an audience drenched in the confident perfume of culture. I can't afford it.

  Richard Brautigan

  Care, Fancy, Theater

  Richard Brautigan (1995). “Revenge of the Lawn, The Abortion, So the Wind Won't Blow It All Away”, p.104, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I'm not silly enough to think I'm going to change the whole culture ... but I do have a belief that soccer can go to a different level.

  David Beckham

  Soccer, Silly, Thinking

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• Improving quality requires a culture change, not just a new diet.

  Phil Crosby

  Quality, Improving, Diets

  "Let's Talk Quality: 96 Questions You Always Wanted to Ask Phil Crosby". Book by Philip B. Crosby, 1989.

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• Until the culture recognizes the legitimacy of growing down, each person in the culture struggles blindly to make sense of the darkness that the soul requires to deepen into life.

  James Hillman

  Struggle, Soul, Darkness

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• It is time to stop the mealy-mouthed euphemisms: 'Nationalists', 'Loyalists', 'Communities', 'Ethnic Groups', 'Cultures', 'Civilizations'. Religions is the word you need. Religions is the word you are struggling hypocritially to avoid.

  Richard Dawkins

  Struggle, Civilization, Community

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• In human life, economics precedes politics or culture.

  Park Geun-hye

  Economics, Human Life, Humans

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• Music is always going to be only as sophisticated as the culture that consumes it.

  Jimmy Chamberlin

  Sophisticated, Music Is

  "Pumpkins Smashing Pumpkins' Chamberlin gives up the road to reinvent live music" by Andy Meek, www.theguardian.com. October 15, 2014.

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• I love classical music. I love a lot of musicians playing together and the whole culture of that, whether it's Indian or it's Western.

  A. R. Rahman

  Together, Musician, Classical Music

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• Who is the best rapper ever? I'll probably have to say Eminem. I would definitely say Eminem. He came from a whole another culture, literally. Mastered it, outsold everybody and he did every kind of record imaginable. He could take any topic and make a song out of it. I haven't seen any artist do that yet.

  Akon

  Song, Artist, Rapper

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• I think the idea of the social construction of beauty - this idea that beauty is simply whatever culture or society says it is - is on the run. Of course, beauty does arise in a cultural context. No one ever denies that. But there's also a natural response people have to it.

  Denis Dutton

  Running, Thinking, Ideas

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• I believe that our Heavenly Father invented man because he was disappointed in the monkey. I believe that whenever a human being, of even the highest intelligence and culture, delivers an opinion upon a matter apart from his particular and especial line of interest, training and experience, it will always be an opinion of so foolish and so valueless a sort that it can be depended upon to suggest to our Heavenly Father that the human being is another disappointment and that he is no considerable improvement upon the monkey.

  Mark Twain

  Disappointment, Father, Believe

  Mark Twain (2013). “Autobiography of Mark Twain, Volume 2: The Complete and Authoritative Edition”, p.288, Univ of California Press

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