Culture Quotes - page 6

We have our own history, our own language, our own culture. But our destiny is also tied up with the destinies of other people - history has made us all South Africans. (Mangosuthu Buthelezi)
And where I grew up in Australia, surfing was a part of culture. View quote
Marc Newson
Rap is a gimmick, but I'm for the hip-hop, the culture. View quote
Method Man
It's what the Iraqi people are going through right now. They have encountered a victorious, hostile force-but, you know, there they still are. There their culture is, there their history is, they're not going anywhere. View quote
Michael Nesmith
Because some people have sex with people of the same sex, an entire culture has been created, broadly speaking, out of oppression. Which in a rational world would not be an issue. View quote
Neil Tennant
We were a Western civilisation, an English speaking civilisation, both NZ and Australia, and we had all these influences coming from both Great Britain and America to us; sending us their culture in the shape and form of movies and television. View quote
Richard O'Brien
But having said that, what's happening with campaign finance reform and our political culture is devastating. View quote
Robert McChesney
Indian culture certainly gives the Indian mind, including the mind of the Indian scientist, the ability to think out of the box. View quote
Roland Joffe
The arts, as a reflection of human existence at its highest, have always and spontaneously lived up to this demand of plenitude. No mature style of art in any culture has ever been simple. View quote
Rudolf Arnheim
Yes and our obsession with youth in our culture and how we, women lie about their age after 35 obsessively and no one wants to let anyone know they're getting older, et cetera. View quote
Sela Ward
As a culture I see us as presently deprived of subtleties. The music is loud, the anger is elevated, sex seems lacking in sweetness and privacy. (Shelley Berman)
Popular culture tells you that schools and parents don't know what's going on, the police are dogs, politicians are all liars and scum, and any crime that's not committed by the Mafia is done by the CIA. View quote
Stanley Crouch
I'm surprised and disappointed in American culture. View quote
Tabitha Soren
It's too hard for me to comment on the sorry state of our culture. View quote
Trevor Dunn
Pop culture is not about depth. It's about marketing, supply and demand, consumerism. View quote
Trevor Dunn
Because when you have millions of people with this kind of need for gratification, and the culture is saying that it's possible for everyone to satisfy all of their needs and desires all of the time, there are obviously going to be clashes - clashes of ego. View quote
Taylor Hackford
What makes cookbooks interesting is to find out about the people and the culture that invented the food. View quote
Vincent Schiavelli
Whatever offices of life are performed by women of culture and refinement are thenceforth elevated; they cease to be mere servile toils, and become expressions of the ideas of superior beings. View quote
Harriet Beecher Stowe
English culture is basically homosexual in the sense that the men only really care about other men. View quote
Germaine Greer
Culture is the widening of the mind and of the spirit. It is never a narrowing of the mind or a restriction of the human spirit or the country's spirit. View quote
Jawaharlal Nehru
Islam is not a religion, it's an ideology, the ideology of a retarded culture. (Geert Wilders)
There is no equality between our culture and the retarded Islamic culture. Look at their views on homosexuality or women. View quote
Geert Wilders
There is no comparing the brutality and cynicism of today's pop culture with that of forty years ago: from High Noon to Robocop is a long descent. View quote
Charles Krauthammer
Sex is the refuge of the mindless. And the more mindless the woman, the more deeply embedded in the male "culture," in short, the nicer she is, the more sexual she is. The nicest women in our "society" are raving sex maniacs. View quote
Valerie Solanas
The shared meal elevates eating from a mechanical process of fueling the body to a ritual of family and community, from the mere animal biology to an act of culture. View quote
Michael Pollan