Culture Quotes

While these Christians (the majority in a recent poll) are particularly concerned that religious freedoms are being eroded in this country, “they also want Judeo-Christians to dominate the culture

~ David Kinnaman

Shigemori's body of work is a compelling manifesto for continuous cultural renewal.

~ Christian Tschumi

The way a culture treats women in birth is a good indicator of how well women and their contributions to society are valued and honored.

~ Ina May Gaskin

The Swedes have coined the term 'management by perkele' to portray the Finnish managerial approach. Instead of collectively pondering all the possible alternatives and letting every member of the staff from the cleaner to the MD voice their views, as the Swedes do, the Finns act swiftly and don't waste time on the decision-making process. If something isn't happening quickly enough, it is necessary for the top managers to slam their fists on the table and yell, 'Perkele!' Repeatedly, if necessary.

~ Tarja Moles

All great art contains at its center contemplation, a dynamic contemplation.

~ Susan Sontag

All aesthetic judgment is really cultural evaluation.

~ Susan Sontag

Nobody can understand the greatness of the thirteenth century, who does not realize that it was a great growth of new things produced by a living thing. In that sense it was really bolder and freer than what we call the renaissance, which was a resurrection of old things discovered in a dead thing... and the Gospel according to St. Thomas... was a new thrust like the titanic thrust of Gothic engineering; and its strength was in a God that makes all things new.

~ G.k. Chesterton

Corporate strategy is usually only useful if you get people engaged with helping you to make it work.

~ Max Mckeown

Our life stories are at one and the same time reality, fallacy and fantasy...

~ Rasheed Ogunlaru

The person senses what it feels like to be free from inhibitions. At the same time he feels connected and integrated – with his body and, through his body, with his environment. He has a sense of well-being and inner peace. He gains the knowledge that the life of the body resides in its involuntary aspect. […] Unfortunately these beautiful feelings do not always hold up under the stress of daily living in our modern culture. The pace, the pressure and the philosophy of our times are antithetical to life.

~ Alexander Lowen

From New Year's Eve through the third of January, the streets of Tokyo grew quiet, as if all the people had disappeared.

~ Shogo Oketani

Culture uses art to dream the deaths of beautiful women.

~ Elisabeth Bronfen

Unless the relationship of law to Christianity is re-established, there is no future except destruction for Western culture.

~ R. J. Rushdooney

In World War II, some Japanese soldiers preferred to take their own lives rather become prisoners of war. In Saipan hundreds of civilians jumped to their deaths over cliffs in order to avoid falling into American hands. Even in life-or-death situations cultural ties and duties often outweigh the instinct for survival. This is why people die in the attempt to rescue a dog from drowning, or decide to become suicide bombers.

~ Harald Welzer

Illusory universality is the universality of the art of the culture industry, it is the universality of the homogeneous same, an art which no longer even promises happiness but only provides easy amusement as relief from labour.

~ J.m. Bernstein

We are, as a culture and as a specias, in the midst of a great awakening, remembering that there is a nature of things, an inherent, Divine design. The more aware of and in alignment with that design we can become, the more we will experience the deep desires of our hearts and souls, and perhaps, together, we can truly create a world that works for everyone.

~ Jeffrey R. Anderson

Culture is what we choose to repeat.

~ Mark Richard Beaulieu

For while spirituality has the dynamic to transcend and transform culture, it invariably expresses itself in and through culture.

~ Kirkley C. Sands

The physical impact of taiko music, along with the sheer visual poetry of a choreographed ensemble presenting its music in perfect synchrony, is so powerful and inviting that taiko is beginning to catch on as Japan's most influential and lasting gift to world music.

~ Gil Asakawa

It is often out encounter with culture that first reveals to us our own culture.

~ Tim Chester

When something really bad is going on in a culture, the average guy doesn’t see it. He can’t. He’s average. And is surrounded by and immersed in the cant and discourse of the status quo.

~ George Saunders

There is a difference between the inmates of your criminal prisons and the inmates of your cultural prison: The former understand that the distribution of wealth and power inside the prison had nothing to do with justice.

~ Daniel Quinn

No culture on earth is as heavily narcotized as the industrial West in terms of being inured to the consequences of maladaptive behavior. We pursue a business-as-usual attitude in a surreal atmosphere of mounting crises and irreconcilable contradictions.

~ Terence Mckenna

It is necessary to have “watchers” at hand who will bear witness to the values of Tradition in ever more uncompromising and firm ways, as the anti-traditional forces grow in strength. Even though these values cannot be achieved, it does not mean that they amount to mere “ideas.” These are MEASURES…. Let people of our time talk about these things with condescension as if they were anachronistic and anti-historical; we know that this is an alibi for their defeat. Let us leave modern men to their “truths” and let us only be concerned about one thing: to keep standing amid a world of ruins.

~ Julius Evola

‎I feel certain that Conservatism is through unless Conservatives can demonstrate and communicate the difference between being concerned with [the unemployed, the sick without medical care, human welfare, etc.] and believing that the federal government is the proper agent for their solution.

~ Barry M. Goldwater

Misunderstanding a culture's symbols is a common root of predujice.

~ Dan Brown

Truly a good horse, good ground to gallop on, and sunshine, make up the sum of enjoyable travelling.

~ Isabella L. Bird

Its culture: the fruit of its life, the product of its own efforts in thought and art. This culture is not international. It is the expression of the national genius, of the blood. The culture is international in its brilliance but national in origin. Someone made a fine comparison: bread and wheat may be internationally consumed, but they always bear the imprint of the soil from which they came.

~ Corneliu Zelea Codreanu

Even their insistence on educating their children, the last reflex of any exploited group before it sank into submission, marked the end of their resistance.

~ J.g. Ballard

Today we have a weakness in our education process in failing to understand the natural associations between the disciplines. We tend to study all our disciplines in unrelated parallel lines. This tends to be true in both Christian and secular education. This is one of the reasons why evangelical Christians have been taken by surprise at the tremendous shift that has come in our generation.

~ Francis A. Schaeffer

The secret to making yourself stronger is to absorb the strength of the people around you—energy begets energy.

~ Adachi Zenko

A nation lives forever through its concepts, honour, and culture. It is for these reasons that the rulers of nations must judge and act not only on the basis of physical and material interests of the nation but on the basis of the nation's historical honour, of the nation's eternal interests. Thus: not bread at all costs, but honour at all costs.

~ Corneliu Zelea Codreanu

I meet people and they enforce me their culture and then I choose to fly away and I meet other people and these people force me their religion and I wanna fly away. I meet other people, these people are silent, we begin to sing the song of the ocean and then we fly away together ~

~ Grigoris Deoudis

I’m very headstrong. Once I’ve caught fire, there’s no dousing the flames—all engines full speed ahead.

~ Adachi Zenko

Comics are drawings, not photographs, and as such they present a subjective view of reality.

~ Frederik L. Schodt

Western civilisation, the élitists all understood, is built upon discrimination: a culture that does not rest on discrimination, that penalises people who discriminate, or rewards the undiscriminating, is worth very little and has only callow, childish pleasures.

~ Richard Davenport-Hines

The new fans of Japan won’t be Orientalists, but they will be anime-savvy.

~ Morinosuke Kawaguchi

In the Catskills, nostalgia runs backwards. The upwardly mobile Jewish masses of the 1950s and 1960s have been replaced by the Jews of 19th century Poland.

~ Kevin Haworth

Japanese had never seen a Western-style circus, and most of them had probably never seen foreigners, either.

~ Frederik L. Schodt

In spite of what most assume, it is surprisingly tough to make the mind and body work together as a unit.

~ H.e. Davey