3,162 Quotes About Culture

With that question, the two of us had a long conversation about whether language is a tool in our hands or we in its hands.

All human culture is but an attempt at something unattainable, something which far transcends our powers of realization. There it stands, mutilated, tragic as a torso. Is not the human spirit itself a torso?

The culture industry is not the art of the consumer but rather the projection of the will of those in control onto their victims. The automatic self-reproduction of the status quo in its established forms is itself an expression of domination.

For the Arab, the past does not merely live. The past defines the present.

Human cultures construct an enormous variety of environments through language, technology, and institutions. We are born in and die in these systems of symbols and imagination.

The principle of godliness must be believed and embedded as the culture to live by.

An adult is a child adulterated.

Unlike that of a society, the spiritual or intellectual awakening of a person is irreversible.

There is this common notion that people are shallow and ignorant until they go out and see the world. I, on the other hand, went out and in comparison realized I was in pretty good standing.