3,162 Quotes About Culture

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Do not justify art, once you do, it limits the feelings it is apt to inflict. Art with Boundaries shadows all its principles.

Cultural change is generally not amenable to blitzkrieg, for the ways of others are not readily reshaped to a common and 'correct' view, congruent with the ideas of the conqueror. At root, nation-building requires changing of culture and that is the hardest objective to achieve and the most bitterly resisted.

Jesus was a bachelor and never lived with a woman. Surely living with a woman is one of the most difficult things a man has to do, and he never did it.

To what do I attribute our decline? It's far easier to be shocking than charming.

When individuals and communities do not govern self, they risk being ruled by external forces that care less about the well-being of the village.

A good newspaper, I suppose, is a nation talking to itself.

It’s the lifestyle that’s being packaged and sold rather than the actual meaning.

Hip-hop is storytelling.