quotations about culture
Sexually progressive cultures gave us literature, philosophy, civilization and the rest, while sexually restrictive cultures gave us the Dark Ages and the Holocaust.
ALAN MOORE
25,000 Years of Erotic Freedom
There are cultures that can only picture their origins and not their ends.
JEAN BAUDRILLARD
Cool Memories
The key to this culture
Never slow down
Keep running with the vultures
HEMBREE
"Culture", House on Fire
Creating culture is just like any other act of construction in that we need raw materials to get the job done. The raw materials for the culture we create consist of cultural elements that either existed before we were born or were created by other people since our birth. We may put these elements together in ways that produce something genuinely new. But there is no other well to drink from, so existing culture puts limits on what we can think and do.
ROBERT J. BRYM
Sociology: Your Compass for a New World
Culture, the acquainting ourselves with the best that has been known and said in the world, and thus with the history of the human spirit.
MATTHEW ARNOLD
Literature & Dogma
If vain our toil,
We ought to blame the culture, not the soil.
ALEXANDER POPE
Essay on Man
Culture would not be culture if it were not an acquired taste.
J.C. POWYS
The Meaning of Culture
Whoever controls the media--the images--controls the culture.
ALLEN GINSBERG
attributed, Brain Power
Culture is on the horns of this dilemma: if profound and noble it must remain rare, if common it must become mean.
GEORGE SANTAYANA
The Life of Reason
As a logically integrated, functional, sense-making whole, culture is not an accidental collection of customs and habits. It is more like an organism, with all parts related to each other in relationships of both harmony and conflict, of both complementary unity and stress and strain.
DAVID W. AUGSBURGER
Pastoral Counseling Across Cultures
Our world is organized in large measure around groups with pervasive cultures ... membership of such groups ... greatly affects one's opportunities ... If the culture is decaying, or if it is persecuted or discriminated against, the options and opportunities open to its members will shrink.
JOSEPH RAZ
Ethics in the Public Domain: Essays in the Morality of Law and Politics
The men of all culture are the true apostles of equality.
MATTHEW ARNOLD
Culture and Anarchy
It is the secret of culture, to interest the man more in his public, than in his private quality.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON
The Conduct of Life
Culture is that complex whole which includes knowledge, belief, art, morals, law, custom and any other capacities and habits acquired by man as a member of society.
EDWARD B. TYLOR
Primitive Culture
The means of transmitting the culture can take a variety of forms (proverbs, stories, art) and can have numerous "carriers" (family, peers, media, schools, church), but the key elements of culture (values, ideas, perception) must be shared by all members of the culture.
LARRY A. SAMOVAR
Communication Between Cultures
Specific, closed cultures like that surrounding comic books have allowed voices to be heard that might not have been audible in a world in which all cultural texts speak the same common language.
MATTHEW J. PUSTZ
Comic Book Culture
Each form of the sacrosanct was regarded by members of the culture which gave rise to it as a revelation of the Truth.
ANDRÉ MALRAUX
Voices of Silence
Culture makes no attempt to search the past for precedents, but transforms the entire past into a sequence of provisional responses to a problem that remains intact.
ANDRÉ MALRAUX
Voices of Silence
Culture is the entire accumulation of artificial objects, conditions, tools, techniques, ideas, symbols, and behavior patterns peculiar to a group of people, possessing a certain consistency of its own, and capable of transmission from one generation to another.
CHARLES H. COOLEY
ROBERT C. ANGELL & LOWELL J. CARR, Sociology for Nurses
Ideas express themselves in the way people behave; how we dress, eat, sleep, bathe, conduct a meeting, work or get married are all a result of our culture. All these activities, and thousands of other ways of acting which seem so natural and right, are a result of our culture. How else can you eat, but with a knife and fork? Yet millions of people in the world find the knife and fork as strange and awkward as we do chopsticks.
DAVID BURNETT
"The Culture Factor,", Third Way, Jun. 15, 1978