2519 Culture Quotes for You to Enjoy

Our culture is just a series of checks and balances. The whole idea that we're in a battle between tyranny and freedom - it's a series of pendulum swings. Jon Stewart

Freedom Culture Battle Tyranny Our Pendulum Idea Between Checks Checks And Balances Balances Just Whole Series Swings

Ariel may look a lot like Barbie, and her adventure may be limited to romance and over with the wedding bells, but unlike, say, Cinderella or Sleeping Beauty, she's active, brave and determined, the heroine of her own life. She even rescues the prince. And that makes her a rare fish, indeed, in the world of preschool culture. Katha Pollitt

Life Culture World Rare Beauty Own Active Sleeping Heroine Cinderella Unlike Indeed Say Determined Wedding Adventure Over Like Prince Look She Makes Limited Fish Lot Brave May Romance Barbie Even Preschool Her Bells

I loved Japanese culture before even realizing it was, in fact, Japanese culture. The cartoons and anime I was watching as a child, my favorite video games, and even in pro wrestling - my favorite wrestlers and matches originated in Japan. Kenny Omega

Video Games Culture Before Favorite Cartoons Wrestlers Wrestling Fact Anime Matches Child Pro In Fact Loved Japan Japanese Japanese Culture Video Realizing Games Even Originated Watching

The Taliban's acts of cultural vandalism - the most infamous being the destruction of the giant Bamiyan Buddhas - had a devastating effect on Afghan culture and the artistic scene. The Taliban burned countless films, VCRs, music tapes, books, and paintings. They jailed filmmakers, musicians, painters, and sculptors. Khaled Hosseini

Music Musicians Culture Destruction Films Books Giant Vandalism Scene Devastating Had Buddhas Countless Most Taliban Cultural Infamous Tapes Effect Afghan Artistic Jailed Being Burned Painters Paintings Acts Filmmakers

Women make natural anarchists and revolutionaries because they've always been second-class citizens, kinda having had to claw their way up. I mean, who made up all the rules in the culture? Men - white male corporate society. So why wouldn't a woman want to rebel against that? Kim Gordon

Woman Culture Women Natural Made Men White Society Corporate Anarchist Way Rules Citizens Kinda Having Had Make Because Always Been Male Up Revolutionaries Want Against Mean Who Rebel Why Second-Class Second-Class Citizens

There are many different rivers that lead into despair: there's poverty; there's political repression; there's gender apartheid - there's a sense of culture loss; there's religious fanaticism. Lawrence Wright

Culture Political Gender Poverty Sense Despair Religious Lead Rivers Loss Different Repression Fanaticism Apartheid Many

The values that East Asian culture upholds, such as the primacy of group interests over individual interests, support the total group effort necessary to develop rapidly. Lee Kuan Yew

Culture Values Group East East Asian Rapidly Total Individual Develop Primacy Support Over Effort Asian Interests Group Effort Necessary

The chief function of the city is to convert power into form, energy into culture, dead matter into the living symbols of art, biological reproduction into social creativity. Lewis Mumford

Art Culture Creativity Matter Power Energy Living City Dead Chief Form Reproduction Convert Social Function Biological Symbols

African-Americans are not a monolithic group. So, we tend to talk about the black community, the black culture, the African-American television viewing audience, but there are just as many facets of us as there are other cultures. Malcolm-Jamal Warner

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The U.K. is outward-looking, trade-oriented, growth-oriented, and we do not have enough of that storyline, that tradition, that culture within the European Union. Mark Rutte

Culture Enough Within Tradition Storyline Union European European Union

I look at Google and think they have a strong academic culture. Elegant solutions to complex problems. Mark Zuckerberg

Culture Strong Problems Google Think Complex Solutions Academic Look Elegant

I think of art, at its most significant, as a DEW line, a Distant Early Warning system that can always be relied on to tell the old culture what is beginning to happen to it. Marshall McLuhan

Art Culture Old Beginning Think Distant System Tell Significant Most Dew Always Line Happen Warning Early

As I obsess about my ancient problems, I feel more like I'm sinking in quicksand than lighting a torch. I'm creating neither heat nor light, just the icky, perversely pleasurable squish of self-pity between my toes. My only defense is that I'm not the only one down here in the muck - our whole culture is doting on tales of personal tragedy. Martha Beck

Culture Light Problems Sinking Down Defense Our Pleasurable Ancient Torch Neither About More Only Obsess Feel Lighting Between Like Tales Self-Pity Nor Tragedy Quicksand Than Personal Heat Just Creating Toes Whole Here

Within a culture possessed by the myth of feminine evil, the naming, describing, and theorizing about good and evil has constituted a maze/haze of deception. The journey of women becoming is breaking through this maze - springing into free space, which is an a-mazing process. Mary Daly

Good Journey Culture Women Good And Evil Space Evil Free Myth Possessed About Through Naming Within Becoming Feminine Springing Deception Maze Process Which Breaking Describing

It's scary to me to watch the world around us get less and less physical while in the imaginary world of pop culture, aggressive impulses and fear reactions are floridly, furiously stoked and indulged. Mary Gaitskill

By the middle of the century, retirement culture - exemplified by timeshares in Florida, the golf industry, and AARP membership - was booming. Americans, it turned out, were pretty good at figuring out how not to do anything in their twilight years. Mary Pilon

Venezuela's government must work toward achieving a true culture of democracy for our region. There's no room for persecution based on ideological reasons or for thinking differently. Mauricio Macri

Work Government Democracy Culture Thinking Our Must True Toward Venezuela Ideological Persecution Achieving Region Room Reasons Based Differently

The Bible, however, was not created to be amended and altered with each passing culture. Mike Huckabee

Bible Culture Altered Passing However Amended Created Each

I'm a product of Russian culture, but I never felt it was my country. Mikhail Baryshnikov

Culture Country Russian Never Felt Product

I think you need to, as an architect, understand the essence of a place and create a building that feels like it resonates with the culture of a place. So my buildings in India or in Kansas City or in Arkansas or in Singapore, they come out different because the places are so different. Moshe Safdie

You Culture Building Think Resonates Out India City Architect Arkansas Feels Come Like Singapore Because Understand Buildings Essence Different Place Places Create Kansas Kansas City Need

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