quotations about culture
One ought not to hoard culture. It should be adapted and infused into society as a leaven.
WALLACE STEVENS
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journal entry, June 20, 1899
One of the most effective ways to learn about oneself is by taking seriously the cultures of others. It forces you to pay attention to those details of life which differentiate them from you.
EDWARD T. HALL
The Silent Language
The family is both the fundamental unit of society as well as the root of culture. It ... is a perpetual source of encouragement, advocacy, assurance, and emotional refueling that empowers a child to venture with confidence into the greater world and to become all that he can be.
MARIANNE E. NEIFERT
Dr. Mom's Parenting Guide
Culture will give scope, object, and beauty to life, and raise the soul above the petty things that the daily routine of life is apt to bind us to.
JAMES PLATT
Platt's Essays
Culture is a fuzzy set of attitudes, beliefs, behavioural conventions, and basic assumptions and values that are shared by a group of people, and that influence each member's behaviour and each member's interpretations of the "meaning" of other people's behavior.
HELEN SPENCER-OATEY
Culturally Speaking
The acquiring of culture is the developing of an avid hunger for knowledge and beauty.
JESSE LEE BENNETT
On Culture
The state is the nursing mother of human culture.
JOSEPH ALEXANDER LEIGHTON
The Nation and the Ethics of War and Preparedness: An Address
The notion of culture is like a window through which one may view human groups. Just as the view changes as one moves from window to window of a building, so the anthropologist's understanding of society changes as he or she moves from one definition of culture to another.
SERENA NANDA & RICHARD L. WARMS
Cultural Anthropology
The one thing that seems certain when trying to define culture is that there is no agreement on a single definition of the term.
ABEL ADEKOLA & BRUNO S. SERGI
Global Business Management
All testify to the coercion and sacrifice which culture imposes on man. To rely on them and deny the decline is to become even more firmly caught in its fatal coils.
THEODOR W. ADORNO
Prisms
Our culture has filled our heads but emptied our hearts, stuffed our wallets but starved our wonder. It has fed our thirst for facts but not for meaning or mystery. It produces "nice" people, not heroes.
PETER KREEFT
Jesus-Shock
The major adventure is to claim your authentic, true being, which is not culturally given to you. The culture will not explain to you how to be a real human being. It will tell you how to be banker, politician, Indian chief, masseuses, actress, whatever, but it will not give you true being.
TERENCE MCKENNA
Psychedelic Salon
Today, we must look to the city of Las Vegas, Nevada as a metaphor of our national character and aspiration, its symbol a thirty-foot high cardboard picture of a slot machine and a chorus girl. For Las Vegas is a city entirely devoted to the idea of entertainment, and as such proclaims the spirit of a culture in which all public discourse increasingly takes the form of entertainment. Our politics, our religion, news, athletics, education and commerce have been transformed into congenial adjuncts of show business, largely without protest or even much popular notice.
NEIL POSTMAN
Amusing Ourselves to Death
The stronger a culture, the less it fears the radical fringe. The more paranoid and precarious a culture, the less tolerance it offers.
JOEL SALATIN
Everything I Want to Do Is Illegal
Partial culture runs to the ornate; extreme culture to simplicity.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEE
Intuitions and Summaries of Thought
Culture is an accumulation of thoughts, values and objects; it is the social heritage acquired by us from preceding generations through learning, as distinguished from the biological heritage which is passed on to us automatically through the genes.
GRAHAM WALLAS
attributed, Industrial Psychology
Our aim is to stop the life cycle of the enemy culture and replace it with our own.
GEORGE L. JACKSON
Blood in My Eye
That is the secret of all culture: it does not provide artificial limbs, wax noses or spectacles--that which can provide these things is, rather, only sham education. Culture is liberation, the removal of all the weeds, rubble and vermin that want to attack the tender buds of the plant.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE
Untimely Meditations
The longing to be primitive is a disease of culture.
GEORGE SANTAYANA
The Life of Reason
When two cultures collide is the only time when true suffering exists.
HERMANN HESSE
attributed, Peter's Quotations: Ideas for Our Time