quotations about culture
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
Capital burns off the nuance in a culture. Foreign investment, global markets, corporate acquisitions, the flow of information through transnational media, the attenuating influence of money that's electronic and sex that's cyberspaced, untouched money and computer-safe sex, the convergence of consumer desire--not that people want the same things, necessarily, but that they want the same range of choices.
DON DELILLO
Underworld
take a look outside
those lively arts are on the slide
and culture's just a bore
when you're angry, young and poor
THE DAMNED
"Lively Arts"
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
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
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
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
Culture would seem ... first and foremost, to be the knowledge of what makes man something other than an accident of the universe, be it by deepening his harmony with the world, or by the lucid consciousness of his revolt from it.
ANDRÉ MALRAUX
attributed, Malraux : An Essay in Political Criticism
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
The state is the nursing mother of human culture.
JOSEPH ALEXANDER LEIGHTON
The Nation and the Ethics of War and Preparedness: An Address
Real culture lives by sympathies and admirations, not by dislikes and disdain -- under all misleading wrappings it pounces unerringly upon the human core.
WILLIAM JAMES
"The Social Value of the College-Bred,", Memories and Studies
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
Culture is at once the expression and the reward of an effort, and any system of civilization which tends to relax effort will suffer a corresponding depreciation of culture.
GEORGES DUHAMEL
In Defense of Letters
This last exertion of the intellect, its rising to broad views and great principles, constitutes what is called the philosophical mind, and is especially worthy of culture.
JAMES PLATT
Platt's Essays
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
Culture is the way we live. It is the clothes we wear, the foods we eat, the language we speak, the stories we tell, and the ways we celebrate. It is the way we show our imaginations through art, music, and writing.
BOBBIE KALMAN
What Is Culture?
You have to taste a culture to understand it.
DEBORAH CATER
attributed, A Queen in the Kitchen
To hide behind culture or tradition to justify anarchy is a gross insult to the very people whose culture or tradition may be paraded to glorify criminal conduct.
MAHENDRA CHAUDHRY
speech, Jul. 15, 2005
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
Consider how culture is conveyed in a multimedia world. Historically grandparents and tribal elders played a central role in recreating, transmitting, and transferring culture. They relied on oral communication along with family, community, or tribal connections. Culture is basically an attitude; it is also learned. It is the learning of shared language and perceptions, which are incorporated in the mind through education, repetition, ritual, history, media, or mimicking. In terms of the media's expanding role, it becomes a shared media culture including influencing perceptions and values. Examples of media systems that attract heavy users are Hollywood movies, MTV, ESPN, soap operas, CNN, the internet, or video games. These systems tend to be the output of global communication giants, such as Time Warner, Disney, Viacom, Sony, and News Corp. Collectively they have the real potential to displace or alter previous cultural values.
THOMAS L. MCPHAIL
Global Communication