Culture Views Quotes

#1. What each culture views as the cause of madness is dependent on its world view.

Peter Conrad

#2. to catch it called for harpooning it - which was Ned Land's business; to harpoon it called for sighting it - which was the crew's business; and to sight it called for encountering it - which was a chancy business.

Jules Verne

#3. We live in a culture in which intelligence is denied relevance altogether, in a search for radical innocence, or is defended as an instrument of authority and repression. In my view, the only intelligence worth defending is critical, dialectical, skeptical, desimplifying.

Susan Sontag

#4. Education must, be not only a transmission of culture but also a provider of alternative views of the world and a strengthener of the will to explore them.

Jerome Bruner

#5. Aquinas brought an Aristotelian view of reason back into European culture, and lighted the way toward the Renaissance.

Ayn Rand

#6. The choice of a point of view is the initial act of a culture.

Jose Ortega Y Gasset

#7. It is through the acceptance of a variety of aethetic and intellectual points of view that a culture is given breadth and density.

Louise Bogan

#8. Nothing worthy can be built on a neglect of higher meanings and on a relativistic view of concepts and culture as a whole. Indeed, something greater than a phenomenon confined to art can be discerned shimmering here beneath the surface - shimmering not with light but with an ominous crimson glow.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

#9. I've come to the point of view that for European-American society and culture to persist requires a European-American majority, and a clear one at that.

John Tanton

#10. Our culture difinitely takes an egocentric dominator view. The fear of the psychedelic experience is quite literally the fear of losing control. Dominator types today don't understand that it's not important to maintain control if you are not in control in the first place.

Terence McKenna

#11. How women view religion's role in society is shaped more by their own country's culture and context than one monolithic view that religion is simply bad for women.

Dalia Mogahed

#12. For all of its well-deserved reputation for pragmatism, American popular culture frequently nurtures or at least tolerates preposterous views and theories. Witness the 9/11 'truthers' who, lacking any evidence whatsoever, claim that 9/11 was a Bush administration plot.

Michael Hayden

#13. In writing of Indian culture, I am highly conscious of my own subjectivity; arguably, there is more than one Indian culture, and certainly more than one view of Indian culture.

Shashi Tharoor

#14. By education I am an Englishman, by views an internationalist, by culture a Muslim & a Hindu only by accident of birth.

Jawaharlal Nehru

#15. I really like the city of Vienna. I like its art, its music and its architecture. In short, I like the culture that Vienna represents. What really captures me is the period around 1900 - the time of Freud, Schnitzler and Klimt. This is the period in which the modern view of mind was born.

Eric Kandel

#16. A society or culture which is disposed to view the world in Manichean terms will be more vulnerable to control by propaganda.

Alex Carey

#17. Competent people are the most resistant to change

Seth Godin

#18. Photographs [are] of course heavily dependent upon the culture, the disciplinary point of view and the idiosyncratic vision of the particular photographer-analyst.

Margaret Mead

#19. There is room for everyone; there is room for every culture, race, language and point of view.

Desmond Tutu

#20. That without experimentation, a willingness to ask questions and try new things, we shall surely become static, repetitive, moribund.

Anthony Bourdain

#21. Never tease anything that wants to eat you. Reign of Blood

Alexia Purdy

#22. If you drink, don't drive. Don't even putt.

Dean Martin

#23. Debate and divergence of views can only enrich our history and culture.

Ibrahim Babangida

#24. ...Bad leaders are known to destroy one, more or even all of the foundations of their people's way of life...

Janvier Chouteu-Chando

#25. The second challenge is to make sure that, growing up in this culture, they have a healthy view of life and God and Scripture. So, that's my other challenge. So, finding that balance is certainly no easy task but it can be very fulfilling. So, that's part of what we talk about in this book.

Alex Kendrick

#26. Our present political world-view, current in Germany, is based in general on the idea that creative, culture-creating force must indeed be attributed to the state.

Adolf Hitler

#27. All I've done is put into words what all of us are about. We're now at the archetypal stage of being ready to move from a material to a transcendent world view of culture. I'm only articulating what dwells in the consciousness of a good part of the masses now. That's why the response.

James Redfield

#28. Culture is simply the hospitality of the intellect. Your mind is open to new ideas and larger views; when they enter, you know how to receive them, and to entertain, to be entertained, and take what they have to offer without allowing them to dominate you.

Tom Kettle

#29. And also, that's the kind of wonderful thing about film culture, is the interaction between films and who works on what, where they were before, and now what they're doing now, and that inevitably informs how people view a film.

Anton Yelchin

#30. A 'death mirror' held up to American culture - Brando, bikes and black leather; Christ, chains and cocaine. A 'high' view of the myth of the American motorcyclist. The machine as totem from toy to terror. Thanatos in chrome and black leather and bursting jeans.

Kenneth Anger

#31. Art is not made only one way, art is a point of view? Rembrandt in our days would be Rembrandt again, because the work of the master is his self. But in order to be Rembrandt in ourdayshe would have used new ways that would give a new culture.

Marianne Von Werefkin

#32. Not only do we as individuals get locked into single-minded views, but we also reinforce these views for each other until the culture itself suffers the same mindlessness.

Ellen Langer

#33. They have terrified my poor wife and threatened my very person!"
Halt eyed the man impassivley until the outburst was finished.
Worse than that," he said quietly, "they've wasted my time.

John Flanagan