- Grandfathers
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- Nov 07, 2020
Culture Quotes
How culture shapes who we are.
These culture quotes range from admitting that pop culture references are a poor substitute for real understanding, to growing disillusionment with celebrity culture the more one is exposed to it. Another connects classroom culture directly to organizational culture. Related reflections appear in our Cultured quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Moment
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- Nov 07, 2020
The present aristocracy of western culture, at the moment when it most clearly dominates the world, is being imitated rapidly and successfully in every eastern country.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
Jazz is not the popular culture. Jazz is in the same position in our culture as classical music. A very small minority of people really love it.
- Lost
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- Nov 07, 2020
I find it significant that, even though contemporary philosophy tends towards forms of determinism, in the wider culture people are deeply into naming, shaming and blaming each other. So we haven't lost that sense of conscience.
- Happens
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- Nov 07, 2020
Culture is what happens when the CEO isn't in the room.
- Eye
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's that experienced eye that knows what the public loves and how to create that Hollywood magic that drives pop culture.
- Entertainment
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is better to make a piece of music than to perform one, better to perform one than to listen to one, better to listen to one than to misuse it as a means of distraction, entertainment, or acquisition of 'culture.'
- Gay
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- Nov 07, 2020
I quickly found that I didn't really fit into 'gay culture,' as identified by many gay people, and that it can be just as confining as straight culture, not least in the way that bisexual people are told that 'they can't make up their mind.'
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
I remember seeing a stage version of Plato's 'Symposium' and being really moved because it was written by a man rather than a culture.
- Feed
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's that invasive and puerile curiosity to feed a tabloid culture. I don't subscribe to it.
- Obedience
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- Nov 07, 2020
In a sense, all of my books have been about a 'poisonous pedagogy,' which engenders a culture of obedience, this underlying theme of patriarchal systems.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
African society and culture varies much more than European society but it's just considered 'Africa' as if they are all the same.
- Prevention
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- Nov 07, 2020
The FBI. is a massive culture. It's been a culture that served America well, and it's been focused on prosecution. But what we need in terms of terrorism is prevention.
- Nature
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- Nov 07, 2020