And this fear that US models are replacing everything else now spills over from the sphere of culture into our two remaining categories: for this process is clearly, at one level, the result of economic...

All the people, their houses and culture are still encapsulated there as they were in 1815.

I’m dying to go to India… because the culture seems so vastly different from what I’m used to in the States. I would love to do some yoga there. And be amongst people who are...

In many ways politics follows culture. As ancient Greek musician Damon of Athens said, ‘Show me the lyric of a nation and it matters not who writes its laws.’ Movies, television, books, magazines, the Internet,...

Japan never considers time together as time wasted. Rather, it is time invested.

What other culture could have produced someone like Hemingway and not seen the joke?

The world needs to see Christians burning, not with self-righteous fury at the sliding morals in our country, but with passion for God.

Several centuries ago it was believed that the fly agaric, combined with the bufotenin–containing mucus of toads, was an ingredient of witches’ brews, which made flying on their broomsticks possible. Even Santa Claus and Father...

Culture is properly described as the love of perfection; it is a study of perfection.

When we say that the West has brought us nothing but evil, do we mean that beef is evil, that cabbages are evil that the guisado is evil?

Culture is what we choose to repeat.

All of us somehow felt that the next battleground was going to be culture. We all felt somehow that our culture had been stolen from us – by commercial forces, by advertising agencies, by TV...

My tendency to idealize Western civilization arises from my nationalistic desire to use the West in order to reform China. But this has led me to overlook the flaws of Western culture.

The Romans were a strong power before Virgil, but the Greeks had captured their imaginations. While Rome conquered physical Greece, Greek mythology had enveloped Rome. The Empire coul be confident in itself until a Roman...

The fictive structure, my work, my imagination, my books are about the details, the huge construction about culture, Islamic culture or modern Turkey. They’re all intertwined.

Don’t let the culture influence your message, let your message influence the culture.

Muslims are an easy target unfortunately in our culture. It’s become sort of a hybrid enemy image, like it or not. We may say we have no issue with Islam, but we do fear terrorists...

The Victorian woman became her ovaries, as today’s woman has become her “beauty.

At least a third of a woman’s life is marked with aging; about a third of her body is made of fat. Both symbols are being transformed into operable condition–so that women will only feel...

To most Americans, a dog is a potential mate. To some Chinese, a dog is potential meat.

The stakes in this game are not low. Our enterprise is no less than the introduction of an alternative language, and with the language an altered perspective, for a group of phenomena that tradition tended...

The heathen could only be eliminated as a force if their culture was completely erased.

I beg your pardon, sir, said the Frenchman. I am not a coloniser.Well, let’s talk Algeria then. Let’s talk about your culture and your celebrated writers.

We live in a society and a culture and an economic model that tries to make everything look right. Look at computers. Why are they all putty-colored or off-fucking-white? You make something off-white or beige...

Culture is like water in the sea; it can either keep the business ship afloat or drag it down and sink it.

It was called the Reclaim Guide. It was just a general protest guide that went over security culture and stuff like that. A small portion of that guide dealt with explosives information.

In Asia, red is the colour of joy; red is the colour of festivities and of celebration. In Chinese culture, blue is the colour of mourning.

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?

If you decide to move to another country and to live within its laws you don’t express your disregard for the essence of the culture. It’s a form of aggression.

The lively oral storytelling scene in Scots and Gaelic spills over into the majority English-speaking culture, imbuing it with a strong sense of narrative drive that is essential to the modern novel, screenplay and even...

Standing still is never an option so long as inequities remain embedded in the very fabric of the culture.

Music is always a reflection of what’s going on in the hearts and minds of the culture.

We’ve finally given liberals a war against fundamentalism, and they don’t want to fight it. They would, except it would put them on the same side as the United States.

Oh I’m sure you’re right,” Auntie said. “Probably she’s just as you say. But she looks to me like a very clever girl, and adaptable; you can see that from the shape of her ears.

The German experience brings us face to face with the major problem of the revolution in Western Europe. In these countries, the old bourgeois mode of production and the centuries-old civilisation which has developed with...

Yoga is the art work of awareness on the canvas of body, mind, and soul.

Why has pachinko swept Japan? It can hardly be the excitement of gambling, since the risks and rewards are so small. During the hours spent in front of a pachinko machine, there is an almost...

A lot of times, when people say hip-hop, they don’t know what they’re talking about. They just think of the rappers. When you talk about hip-hop, you’re talking about the whole culture and movement. You...

Culture consists of connections, not of separations: to specialize is to isolate.

There are heroes and schmucks in all worlds. The most important thing is whether you are willing to engage in moral struggle against yourself.

I am not interested in living in a city where there isn’t a production by Samuel Beckett running.

Hip-hop is a part of rock & roll because it comes from DJ culture. DJ culture is the embodiment of all genres and all recorded music, if you actually pay attention to it.

A woman made of parts is a dangerous thing. You never know when she’ll throw away a piece you may need.

Even the models we see in magazines wish they could look like their own images.

During my time in New York I was interested in what was going on in the arts culture music, galleries, auction houses that’s where I learned as much as I did about art history. It...

Captive Greece captured her rude conqueror

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...

The colored hobo and now Junior Rabbit had told us, ‘Be ready to compete but be ready to fight too or you may not get a chance to compete’.

The only people that ever stand up and tell the truth are who? Intelligence officers. Because our culture is, never break faith with the truth. We’ll tell you, you don’t have to drag it out...

The most important environmental issue is one that is rarely mentioned, and that is the lack of a conservation ethic in our culture.