Culture Quotes - page 10

Placing on writers the responsibility to represent a culture is an onerous burden. (Amy Tan)
Language is the road map of a culture. It tells you where its people come from and where they are going. View quote
Rita Mae Brown
Nationality is the creative power of human culture, culture is the creative power of nationality. View quote
A.C. Cuza
Superheroes fill a gap in the pop culture psyche, similar to the role of Greek mythology. There isn't really anything else that does the job in modern terms. For me, Batman is the one that can most clearly be taken seriously. View quote
Christopher Nolan
Culture is like a smog. To live within it, you must breathe some of it in and, inevitably, be contaminated. View quote
Richard Morgan
Lacan is a tyrant who must be driven from our shores. Narrowly trained English professors who know nothing of art history or popular culture think they can just wade in with Lacan and trash everything in sight. View quote
Camille Paglia
The capitalist distribution network, a complex chain of factory, transport, warehouse and retail outlet, is one of the greatest male accomplishments in the history of culture. View quote
Camille Paglia
Our feminist culture at the present moment is completely dependent on capitalism. My grandmother was still scrubbing clothes on the back porch on a washboard! View quote
Camille Paglia
Every culture has something to be ashamed of, but every culture also has the right to change, to challenge negative traditions, and create to new ones. View quote
Azar Nafisi
This is a good time to ask apologists for the Islamic regime, who degrades Islam? Who imposes stoning, forced marriage of underage girls and flogging for not wearing the veil? Do such practices represent Iran's ancient history and culture, its ethnic and religious diversity? Its centuries of sensual and subversive poetry? View quote
Azar Nafisi
Diligent as one must be in learning, one must be as diligent in forgetting; otherwise the process is one of pedantry, not culture. (Albert Jay Nock)
Learning has always been made much of, but forgetting has always been deprecated; therefore pedantry has pretty well established itself throughout the modern world at the expense of culture. View quote
Albert Jay Nock
And if you can find any way out of our culture, then that's a trap too. Just wanting to get out of the trap reinforces the trap. View quote
Chuck Palahniuk
Every generation wants to be the last. Every generation hates the next trend in music they can't understand. We hate to give up the reins of our culture. To find our own music playing in elevators. The ballad for our revolution, turned into background music for a television commercial. To find our generation's clothes and hair suddenly retro. View quote
Chuck Palahniuk
Our culture has made us all the same. No one is truly white or black or rich, anymore. We all want the same. Individually, we are nothing. View quote
Chuck Palahniuk
I am a Liberal, yet I am a Liberal tempered by experience, reflexion, and renouncement, and I am, above all, a believer in culture. View quote
Matthew Arnold
The men of culture are the true apostles of equality. View quote
Matthew Arnold
I've been thinking about the distorted view of science that prevails in our culture. I've been wondering about this, because our civilization is completely dependent on science and high technology, yet most of us are alienated from science. View quote
Ann Druyan
In this age, lies were the universal lubricant of the culture. A love of Truth and commitment to it were seldom rewarded and were often punished. View quote
Dean Koontz
For the first time since I began acting, I feel that I've found my place in the world, that there's something out of my own culture which i can express and perhaps help others preserve.. i have found out now that the African natives had a definite culture a long way beyond the culture of the Stone age...an integrated thing, which is still unspoiled by western influences...I think the Americans will be amazed to find how many of the modern dance steps are relics of African heritage. View quote
Paul Robeson
If the American Negro is to have a culture of his own he will have to leave America to get it. (Paul Robeson)
The Irish and British, they love satire, it's a large part of the culture. View quote
Ben Nicholson
Contemporary culture is not very good on responsibility. View quote
Simon Blackburn
We are taking our culture and suturing it to America. Like gum on the bottom of a shoe, we are not going to disappear. Unlike other peoples who totally assimilated, we are more interested in co-assimilation. View quote
John Leguizamo
No culture in human history ever suffered because its people became too reasonable or too desirous of having evidence in defense of their core beliefs. View quote
Sam Harris