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
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
The key to this culture
Never slow down
Keep running with the vultures
HEMBREE
"Culture", House on Fire
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
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
Whoever controls the media--the images--controls the culture.
ALLEN GINSBERG
attributed, Brain Power
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
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
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
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 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
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
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
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 a "fuzzy" concept, in that group members are unlikely to share identical sets of attitudes, beliefs and so on, but rather show "family resemblances", with the result that there is no absolute set of features that can distinguish definitively one cultural group from another.
HELEN SPENCER-OATEY
Culturally Speaking
The men of all culture are the true apostles of equality.
MATTHEW ARNOLD
Culture and Anarchy
Our culture runs on coffee and gasoline, the first often tasting like the second.
EDWARD ABBEY
Down the River
Culture which smooth the whole world licks,
Also unto the devil sticks.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE
Faust