Culture Quotes

"I think food, culture, people and landscape are all absolutely inseparable." "Doing less is not being lazy. Don't give in to a culture that values personal sacrifice over personal productivity." "I'm just a preacher trying to preach the gospel, the good news of this thing, which is diversity and the richness that it brings to our culture" "I'm half Hawaiian and the haka is a very sacred thing, something your family teaches you." "Artists are here to disturb the peace" "A bookstore is one of the only pieces of evidence we have that people are still thinking." "People always say 'You do racial comedy.' And I don't, exactly. I do cultural comedy. Because race and culture are two different things" "There's a big difference between race and culture. Because racially, I'm an Indian man. Culturally, not at all" "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." "America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between." "Without memory, there is no culture. Without memory, there would be no civilization, no society, no future." "The gospel of life is at the heart of Jesus' message. Lovingly received day after day by the Church, it is to be preached with dauntless fidelity as good news to the people of every age and culture" "Our art is a reflection of our reality" "The thing about hip-hop today is it's smart, it's insightful. The way they can communicate a complex message in a very short space is remarkable." "To encourage literature and the arts is a duty which every good citizen owes to his country." "Culture tends to argue that it forbids only that which is unnatural. But from a biological perspective, nothing is unnatural. Whatever is possible is by definition also natural. A truly unnatural behavior, one that goes against the laws of nature, simply cannot exist" "You know, when you really get down to it, our national sport is gossip" "Classic: a book which people praise and don't read." "Also, to have culture, you have to have youth" "What is true about individual dreams is also true about collective myths"