3,162 Quotes About Culture

Elvis wasn’t always the over-weight and over-tasseled being you might have seen when he was way past his prime. Las Vegas always had a thing for the seedy and the needy.

Roger Ebert calls snarking “cultural vandalism.” He’s right. Snark makes culture impossible, or rather, it makes the conditions that make culture possible impossible. Earnestness, honesty, vulnerability: These are the targets of snark. “Snark functions as a device to punish human spontaneity, eccentricity, nonconformity, and simple error. Everyone is being snarked into line,” he wrote.

If You Respect Their Preparation,You never Drop the Baton

Suppose we were able to share meanings freely without a compulsive urge to impose our view or conform to those of others and without distortion and self-deception. Would this not constitute a real revolution in culture?

Cultural analysis is intrinsically incomplete. And, worse than that, the more deeply it goes the less complete it is.

Sometimes we feel we straddle two cultures; at other times, that we fall between two stools.

الثقافة فى رأى مفكرنا زكى نجيب محمود ممارسة وليست تنظيراً ،فنحن نعيش ثقافتنا فى كل تفصيلات حياتنا مثل الميلاد والموت والزواج وطريقة إكرام الضيف ..إلخ , يحدث ذلك حين تكون الثقافة منسابة فى عروق الناس مع دمائهم، فتصبح حياتهم هى ثقافتهم وثقافتهم هى حياتهم

Don't let the culture influence your message, let your message influence the culture.

Culture was actually humanity’s attempt to extend the womb.