Quotes of: Culture Keyword

Chinese people today have strong demand for culture, but we need effective supply, and China needs innovative cultural products.

Wang Jianlin

There's nothing in Chinese culture that is an equivalent of the geisha. It's so different, so special to Japan.

Ziyi Zhang

We still have a lot of work to do in American culture. More open-mindedness is happening - in some cases rapidly, in some, slowly.

Mara Brock Akil

Agrarians are committed to preserving both communities and the material means of life, to cultivating practices that ensure that the essential means of life suffice for all members of the present generation and are not diminished for those who come a...

Ellen F. Davis

Nationalism as a thesis confuses (almost always deliberately) certain legitimate desires with illegitimate ones. People like to run their own affairs, and most people value the culture they were raised in, are proud of its achievements and wish it we...

Anthony C. Grayling

Both the mentally healthy and the neurotic are driven by the need to find an answer [to the problem of human existence], the only difference being that one answer corresponds more to the total needs of man, and hence is more conducive to the unfoldin...

The Sane Society

I have no culture, no humane harmony in my brains. I can't live without a culture anymore.

Breakfast of Champions

France, and the whole of Europe have a great culture and an amazing history. Most important thing though is that people there know how to live! In America they've forgotten all about it. I'm afraid that the American culture is a disaster.

Johnny Depp

In matters of conscience, the law of the majority has no place.

Anthropology of Morality in Melanesia and Beyond, The. Anthropology and Cultural History in Asia and the Indo-Pacific.

If asked which words one associated with the Sahara, only the most dedicated surrealist might be expected to offer "whale".

The Sahara: A Cultural History

One book calls to another unexpectedly, creating alliances across different cultures and centuries.

The Library at Night

A modern culture built on the back of dying gods immerses me.

Pagan Standard Times: Essays on the Craft

True resistance begins with people confronting pain... and wanting to do something to change it.

Yearning: Race, Gender, and Cultural Politics

Democratic ideas cannot exist without the public spheres that make them possible.

Zombie Politics and Culture in the Age of Casino Capitalism

I must point out - Sarah Jessica Parker is not a diva - she's one of these pop culture characters that everybody likes.

Philip Treacy

Public libraries are the sole community centers left in America. The degree to which a branch of the local library is connected to the larger culture is a reflection of the degree to which the community itself is connected to the larger culture.

Russell Banks

According to this view, democracy is a product of western culture, and it cannot be applied to the Middle East which has a different cultural, religious, sociological and historical background.

Recep Tayyip Erdogan

The media and the rest of popular culture weren't recording people's reactions to 9/11; they were forcing made-up reactions down people's throats.

Susan Faludi

I think that the Japanese culture is one of the very few cultures left that is its own entity. They're just so traditional and so specific in their ways. It's kind of untouched, it's not Americanized.

Toni Collette

Real cultural diversity results from the interchange of ideas, products, and influences, not from the insular development of a single national style.

Tyler Cowen

Pastors must practice a two-fold program of cultural engagement: deconstruction and demystification of cultural idols, and reconstruction and re-enchantment of a gospel-shaped worldview.

Timothy Keller