Cultural speciation had been crippling to human moral and spiritual growth. It had hindered freedom of thought, limited our thinking, imprisoned us in the cultures into which we had been born. . . . These cultural mind prisons. . . . Cultural speciation was clearly a barrier to world peace. So long as we continued to attach more importance to our own narrow group membership than to the ‘global village’ we would propagate prejudice and ignorance.

A Mediterranean city is really my culture.

My parents weren’t artistic, but I was always surrounded by beautiful things. And Mexico is a country which has experienced thousands of years of art and culture.

The protection of our cultural heritage is vital for preserving our identity.

Russia is a part of European culture. Therefore, it is with difficulty that I imagine NATO as an enemy.

Cultural confidence is a key part of national confidence.

Culture isn’t knowing when Napoleon died. Culture means knowing how I can find out in two minutes.

Look at the Native American culture. They revere the elders

Technology and comfort – having those, people speak of culture, but do not have it

The consistent optimism of our liberal culture has prevented modern democratic societies both from gauging the perils of freedom accurately and from appreciating democracy fully as the only alternative to injustice and oppression. When this optimism is not qualified to accord with the real and complex facts of human nature and history, there is always a danger that sentimentality will give way to despair and that a too consistent optimism will alternate with a too consistent pessimism.

I’m still in love with New York. It’s like a dream: there’s so much to do, so much culture.

Colombian culture has a lot of music – it’s in our blood; it’s in our DNA.

‘Mi Gente’ is a song that embodies a special moment in music – a new sound of a Latino culture on the rise and being embraced globally.

Skills have been de-emphasised in art, as elsewhere in the culture. The atomistic nature of our individuality is made clear in Warhol’s tongue-in-cheek ambition for us each to be ‘famous for fifteen minutes’. We’ve all got to be as creative as one another: to accept that some people will always be exceptional is uncomfortable for us. Instead of seeing great art as an indication of what humanity can achieve, it comes to be seen as an expression of what another being, a potential competitor, has achieved.

Over recent years, urbanisation, globalisation and the destruction of local cultures has led to a rise in the prevalence of mental illness in the developing world.

Look, I’ve always said from the word go many years ago that I felt the whole bonus culture, they need to think very carefully about being detached from the rest of the British public.

If you look at the footballers, you look at our celebrity culture, we seem to be saying, ‘This is the way you want to be’. We seem to be a society that celebrates all the wrong people.

Inclusion is not about token gestures; it’s about creating a culture of acceptance and respect.

I’m listening to Aphex Twin. That makes me cultured and interesting

So I am totally aware that when I defend the autonomy of art I’m going counter to my own development. It’s more an instinctive reaction, meant to protect the private aspect of the work, the part I am most interested in and which nowadays is at risk in our culture.

I think country needs to have a sporting culture. I think if sports were taken as curriculum in school and are encouraged in right way like government of Maharashtra and Haryana have done given Marks for Sports and encouraging them with good jobs.

Sporting culture is needed where marks are given to students for sports in schools, jobs are assured for sportsperson, and sponsors are willing to support them through rough times.

All religious and cultural values are not equal to one another.

Across disparate cultures that require physical risk-taking as a rite of passage, it is always the men who engage in such pursuits.

There’s so many funny things to say about being with Charlotte. I’ve worked on a few bits about it – not to be indiscreet but because the shock of culture and values is so interesting.

Romantic Orientalism was fascinated by the color and excitement of a powerful culture, and nearly always approached its subject with love.

I have no idea what happens, but I do respond to other cultures that treat life with a much more positive approach. It teaches – especially when you’re a child – it teaches you to be afraid of everything, you feel like something bad is always going to happen. As to where that other way seems a much more spiritual and positive approach.

I believe in monogamy if that’s what a couple decides upon together, but it all depends on the personal history and culture of the two involved.

What ‘multiculturalism’ boils down to is that you can praise any culture in the world except Western culture – and you cannot blame any culture in the world except Western culture

Culture changes with economic development.

Once information slipped the bonds of gravity and friction, it tended to gather where it was most valuable.

The nature of revolutions is to sweep the reluctant along.

He (the immigrant father) would walk by proxy in the Elysian fields of liberal learning.

Both sides had more confidence in their opponents’ weaknesses than their own strength.

The French in particular confuse unadorned direct language with a lack of culture or intellectual elegance

No occupation is so delightful to me as the culture of the earth, and no culture comparable to that of the garden.

We seem, as a culture, to start to adhere to these antiheroes and have grown tired of the traditional, straight-up-and-down good guy.

The culture at Valve is pretty much crowdsourced. The handbook is a wiki. One of the first things we say to new hires is, ‘You have to change something in the handbook.’

There are some people who have helped to advance me and other girls, but the fashion industry is always behind popular culture. They think they understand the zeitgeist. They don’t know anything about the zeitgeist.

The key to The Doors is the culture behind the myth.

Support bacteria – they’re the only culture some people have.

A dying culture invariably exhibits personal rudeness. Bad manners. Lack of consideration for others in minor matters. A loss of politeness, of gentle manners, is more significant than is a riot.

I’m not a trained dancer, but I grew up in a culture that revolves around dance.

I’m thrilled to have Corona join me on my ‘X100PRE’ Tour to give my fans a taste of Corona Estereo Beach and showcase their support of Latin music. It’s not solely about the music—it’s about the culture, creativity, and contributing to the movement that connects us all together

With the Internet and social media being a huge part of today’s culture, I think it’s super important to promote staying smart online.

Religion is a culture of faith; science is a culture of doubt.

When I Started Making Music, I Was So Heavy Into The Hyphy Movement. That’s Something You Only Know So Much About If You Were Right There Living In It, Submerged In The Culture.

You don’t have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.

Our modern coaching culture is not to put too much pressure on any one performance, to let an individual flourish over time.

Religion is part of the human make-up. It’s also part of our cultural and intellectual history. Religion was our first attempt at literature, the texts, our first attempt at cosmology, making sense of where we are in the universe, our first attempt at health care, believing in faith healing, our first attempt at philosophy.

The Indians are so free about the riches under their possession.

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If you live only in one culture for the first 20 years of your life, you become conditioned without knowing it.

Culture eats Christianity for breakfast.

Before I went into the studio with Jay Z, Jigga, Hov, I wanted to go to the Marcy Projects in Brooklyn and touch the people and touch the culture.

I’d love to do a musical. I’ve been known to have a good step or two. I’m half Samoan, you know, and part of our culture is singing and dancing daily.

Some of us, I think, us small, pompous arty ones probably read too much George Steiner and kind of got the idea that we were entering to this kind of post-culture age and that we’d better do something postmodernist – quickly, before somebody else did.

In many cultures it is customary to answer that God created the universe out of nothing. But this is mere temporizing. If we wish courageously to pursue the question, we must, of course ask next where God comes from? And if we decide this to be unanswerable, why not save a step and conclude that the universe has always existed?

Margaret Walker’s work emphasizes the importance of celebrating and honoring African American culture and history.

As the traveler who has once been from home is wiser than he who has never left his own doorstep, so a knowledge of one other culture should sharpen our ability to scrutinize more steadily, to appreciate more lovingly, our own.

If we are to achieve a richer culture, rich in contrasting values, we must recognize the whole gamut of human potentialities, and so weave a less arbitrary social fabric, one in which each diverse human gift will find a fitting place.

An ideal culture is one that makes a place for every human gift.

If we make one criterion for defining the artist the impulse to make something new, or to do something in a new way – a kind of divine discontent with all that has gone before, however good – then we can find such artists at every level of human culture, even when performing acts of great simplicity.

There is no hierarchy of values by which one culture has the right to insist on all its own values and deny those of another.

A people without the knowledge of their past history, origin, and culture is like a tree without roots.

Is it advisable to spread out all the conveniences of culture before people to whom a few steps up a stair to a library is a sufficient deterrent from reading?

An army without culture is a dull-witted army, and a dull-witted army cannot defeat the enemy.

Letting a hundred flowers blossom and a hundred schools of thought contend is the policy for promoting the progress of the arts and the sciences and a flourishing culture in our land.

Modern morality consists in accepting the standard of one’s age. I consider that for any man of culture to accept the standard of his age is a form of the grossest immorality

It’s not just a black thing. When we came out, it was already a foregone conclusion that all types of life listen to rap. All cultures. But we never knew that.

It is not our diversity which divides us; it is not our ethnicity or religion or culture that divides us. Since we have achieved our freedom, there can only be one division amongst us: between those who cherish democracy and those who do not.

Look, part of the whole technique of disempowering people is to make sure that the real agents of change fall out of history, and are never recognized in the culture for what they are. So it’s necessary to distort history and make it look as if Great Men did everything – that’s part of how you teach people they can’t do anything, they’re helpless, they just have to wait for some Great Man to come along and do it for them.

All over the place, from the popular culture to the propaganda system, there is constant pressure to make people feel that they are helpless, that the only role they can have is to ratify decisions and to consume.

You don’t want to raise a kid in a culture where the kid who asks the most questions is annoying. You want a culture where the kid who asks the most questions gets awards and gets another piece of cake.

I realized the power of hip-hop. I realized how influential this music and this culture are.

I think food, culture, people, and landscape are all absolutely inseparable

I want to work; then, as my kids get older, I want to have adventures. I want to visit all their countries: learn and live inside all their cultures.

If you do not breathe through writing, if you do not cry out in writing, or sing in writing, then don’t write, because our culture has no use for it.

I don’t think my mother and father ever had any doubts about what I was to be punished for or not. My parents come from a very strictly defined culture.

We are caged by our cultural programming. Culture is a mass hallucination, and when you step outside the mass hallucination you see it for what it’s worth.

The way you know that a culture is in trouble is that it teaches the young children how to think, and not what to think.

We have to create culture, don’t watch TV, don’t read magazines, don’t even listen to NPR. Create your own roadshow.

The imagination is the goal of history. I see culture as an effort to literally realize our collective dreams.

Culture is not your friend. Culture is for other people’s convenience and the convenience of various institutions, churches, companies, tax collection schemes, what have you.

If your culture doesn’t like geeks, you are in real trouble.

I hate California, I want to go to the east coast. I want to go where culture is like, New York, or Connecticut or New Hampshire.

Good culture is born of a good disposition; and since the cause is more to be praised than the effect, I will rather praise a good disposition without culture, than good culture without the disposition.

Culture is perishing in overproduction, in an avalanche of words, in the madness of quantity.

An era that has lost its gods cannot just choose one at random and worship it. So it must be indifferent to all gods, including the Christian God.

You don’t want to be with a boy who is too stupid to appreciate a smart young lady. There is no boy who is cute enough or interesting enough to stop you from getting your education.

When you’ve worked hard, and done well, and walked through that doorway of opportunity, you do not slam it shut behind you. You reach back and you give other folks the same chances that helped you succeed.

When a father puts in long hours at work, he’s praised for being dedicated and ambitious. But when a mother stays late at the office, she’s sometimes accused of being selfish, neglecting her kids.

Times and conditions change so rapidly that we must keep our aim constantly focused on the future.