3,162 Quotes About Culture

Just as we seldom realize that we are growing old until we are already old, so do the contemporary actors in a major social change seldom realize that society is changing until the change has already come.

The journey was a worthwhile. We gain new insight into cultural diversity.

Culture,” he said. “The word meant this—making cheese—before it meant that—art and opera. And before it meant anything, it just meant working the land. That’s a better definition. That’s who we are. Not our music, our books. Psh, books. They’re all dead. We’re alive. We eat, we grow. But, but but but, here’s the thing! We’re amateurs.

W rzeczywistości piękno jest trudne i do tworzenia, i później do przyjmowania. Sztuka jest bardzo arystokratyczna. Kultura może być masowa, sztuka może być tylko arystokratyczna, bo wymaga dużego wysiłku ze strony odbiorcy.

If the norm of the society is corrupted, then objective journalism is corrupted too, for it must not challenge the norm. It must accept the norm.

Their lot in life, their station, became a part of their personalities and helped to for my worldview.

Society destroys your individuality, your soul.

Reading is like breathing in and writing is like breathing out.

Hirota feels strongly drawn toward nature and the natural, is hyper-sensitive to the artificial—particularly that most cramped and constraining man-made creation, society—and does his best to avoid it.