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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
- Nov 07, 2020
There is something terribly wrong with a culture inebriated by noise and gregariousness.
- Kindness
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- Nov 07, 2020
The universal human laws - need, love for the beloved, fear, hunger, periodic exaltation, the kindness that rises up naturally in the absence of hunger/fear/pain - are constant, predictable, reliable, universal, and are merely ornamented with the details of local culture.
- Bad
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Bourgeoisie
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- Nov 07, 2020
The bourgeoisie and the petty bourgeoisie have armed themselves against the rising proletariat with, among other things, 'culture.'
- Collapsing
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's an old ploy of the bourgeoisie. They keep a standing 'art' to defend their collapsing culture.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Poets are accepted in Canada as practically nowhere else in the West because of their place in an officially supported and popularly endorsed Canadian culture. Yet, they are still bitter and argumentative, as poets elsewhere are, because they have no audience as such, only a sanctioned role in the cultural scheme of things.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
The welfare culture tells the man he is not a necessary part of the family; he feels dispensable, his wife knows he is dispensable, his children sense it.
- Past
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- Nov 07, 2020
One very important aspect of our contemporary musical culture - some might say the supremely important aspect - is its extension in the historical and geographical senses to a degree unknown in the past.
- Extensions
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- Nov 07, 2020
Unquestionably, our contemporary world of music is far richer, in a sense, than earlier periods, due to the historical and geographical extensions of culture to which I have referred.
- Most
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- Nov 07, 2020
Of the many forms of false culture, a premature converse with abstractions is perhaps the most likely to prove fatal to the growth of a masculine vigour of intellect.
- Organization
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of the remarkable things about slums is that they do develop their own social organization and economy and even culture that is, on some level, functional and in some cases, remarkably resilient. This is kind of amazing.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
One effect of an individualistic culture that's poor at instilling mutual respect is that people jump more quickly to anger or violence.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
Conflicts are never caused in any simple way by identity, culture or economics. Where resources are scarce, or there are strong historical memories of conflict, small events are more likely to inflame passions.
- Dark Side
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- Nov 07, 2020