Egypt, once a melting pot of peoples, classes, cultures and religions, has, after 30 years of Mubarak's rule, become a place of intolerance and distrust of the other.
The tendency to aggression is an innate, independent, instinctual disposition in man... it constitutes the powerful obstacle to culture.
I like making films about different cultures. I'm interested in things that I've never encountered before. I try to put myself in the audience's position.
I think in Atlantic Canada, because of what happened in the decades following Confederation, there is a culture of defeat that we have to overcome.
But the culture-vultures and the intellectual snobs, and the self-appointed guardians of the Muses, often frighten off the average person from the free development of this appetite.
People can defame anyone they like, people can write anything they like. But non-accountability is a part of modern Indian culture.
Chechens are not ethnically or culturally Russian, and have now been fighting for generations to free themselves from Russian rule.
We divided ourselves among caste, creed, culture and countries but what is undivided remains most valuable: a mere smile and the love.
There are cultural biases built into testing, and that was one of the motivations for the concept of affirmative action - to try to balance out those effects.
Continuous productivity manifests itself as an environment where the evolving tools and culture make it possible to innovate more and faster than ever, with significantly improved execution.
If we don't value the people who inspire us (and money is one mark of that) then what kind of culture are we building?
Books have a vital place in our culture. They are the source of ideas, of stories that engage and stretch the imagination and most importantly, inspire.
All around the Mediterranean you'll find cultures that believe men can't control themselves and shouldn't have to try.
We now have a whole culture based on the assumption that people know nothing and so anything can be said to them.
I'm not saying that people on welfare don't contribute in their own way, but as many as possible should be encouraged to be economically active as well as socially and culturally active.
Any trend that is developed too fast and is disposed right away is not going to have a lasting impression on the culture, you know?
People aren't used to thinking of cultural forms spreading out across the full range of formal interactions - or what is called the 'text' in literary terms.
The political currents that topped the global agenda in the late 20th century - revolutionary nationalism, feminism and ethnic struggle - place culture at their heart.
We live in a material world. I'm not saying that beautiful things don't enhance our lives. But, in our culture, we're never happy.
In the Arab world, there is no link between the cultural habits of peoples and the ways of thinking and creating of modern intellectuals. They are two separate worlds.
Gay TV has been immensely important in transforming American culture in a more gay-positive direction.
