Quotes of: Western-culture Keyword

It is a bitter-sweet thing, knowing two cultures. Once you leave your birthplace nothing is ever the same.

Almost French: Love and a New Life in Paris

It's a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more money writing or talking about his art than he can by practicing it.

W. H. Auden

Rebellion is all we'll be talking about. Love is revolution, a kind of coup d'état and cultural reprogramming in its own little way.

The Hunger Pains: A Parody

Criticism demands infinitely more culture than artistic creation.

How to Talk About Books You Haven't Read

Sometimes we feel we straddle two cultures; at other times, that we fall between two stools.

Imaginary Homelands: Essays and Criticism 1981-1991

Life outside is changing our world. We are losing our culture, loosing our roots. How can a living thing grow if its roots are cut?

Ice Island

Culture is the sum of the values, beliefs and assumptions of human groups.

The Innovation Book: How to Manage Ideas and Execution for Outstanding Results

<...> tyranny is a central theme of American history, that racial exploitation and racial conflict have been part of the DNA of American culture.

Inhuman Bondage: The Rise and Fall of Slavery in the New World

Modern American culture dictated the importance of touching the hand of someone you’ve just met, however counterintuitive it seemed. Why would he want to touch someone he didn’t know?

Jaden Baker

You know how thick I am. I don't even eat yoghurt because it's got culture in it.

The Janus Stone

Popular culture is a place where pity is called compassion, flattery is called love, propaganda is called knowledge, tension is called peace, gossip is called news, and auto-tune is called singing.

Killosophy

Our culture has become so obsessed with celebrity that it’s easy to confuse fame with success. They are not the same thing.

Rise: A Soldier, a Dream, and a Promise Kept

[T]he choice of human groupings for cultural comparisons is not a natural or scientific choice, but a one.

Religion Explained: The Evolutionary Origins of Religious Thought

21st century leaders will be growers, not knowers.

The Science of Successful Organizational Change: How Leaders Set Strategy, Change Behavior, and Create an Agile Culture

Leaders need to sacrifice "power-over" to get "power-to".

The Science of Successful Organizational Change: How Leaders Set Strategy, Change Behavior, and Create an Agile Culture

The notion of "business as usual" is a harmful myth.

The Science of Successful Organizational Change: How Leaders Set Strategy, Change Behavior, and Create an Agile Culture

A democratic civilization will save itself only if it makes the language of the image into a stimulus for critical reflection — not an invitation for hypnosis.

The Screen Education Reader: Cinema, Television, Culture

Horrible the fate of the advice-giver in our culture: to repeat oneself in a thousand contexts until death, or irrelevance.             * I abjure advice-giver.

Star Dust

Our culture of violence is an incubator, where our children are the crop of future techno-warrior killers.

Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life

The starting point to freedom is to begin questioning the cultural narrative you have been sold.

Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life

Without culture, and the relative freedom it implies, society, even when perfect, is but a jungle. This is why any authentic creation is a gift to the future.

The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays