Quotes about World Culture

St. Petersburg is a gem of world culture and Russia's most European city. Votes: 4

I may have destroyed world culture, but MTV wouldn't exist today if it wasn't for me. Votes: 4

The whole world recognizes Russia's cultural achievements. It is impossible to imagine the world culture without Russian culture, without our music and literature. Votes: 4

Hollywood, America's greatest modern contribution to world culture, is a business, a religion, an art form, and a state of mind. Votes: 3

Iran, in its former incarnation as Persia, created the world's first empire, produced titanic figures like Cyrus, Darius, and Xerxes, and is one of the great fonts of world culture. Votes: 3

It's trite to say that the world has gotten smaller in the age of globalization, but my travels have told me that it's wrong to think this means there is some kind of uniform world culture. Votes: 3

The standardization of world culture, with local popular or traditional forms driven out or dumbed down to make way for American television, American music, food, clothes and films, has been seen by many as the very heart of globalization. Votes: 3

In a milieu of resignation, where the young men think of society as a closed room in which there are no values but the rejected rat race, ... it is extremely hard to aim at objective truth or world culture. One's own products are likely to be personal or parochial. Votes: 3

I think we are evolving rapidly into one world culture. It's certainly one world economy. With billions of people online, I think we'll appreciate the wisdom in many different traditions as we learn more about them. People were very isolated and didn't know anything about other religions 100 years ago. Votes: 3

I'm very curious about the world, foreign cultures. Votes: 2

Hip Hop is thee dominant youth culture in the world right now. Votes: 2

The world is organised by the war economy and the war culture. Votes: 2

Is there a sharper commentary on American culture and the world than The Simpsons? Votes: 2

Many people in the western world are spoiled by the conveniences of our culture. Votes: 2

Culture is a way of coping with the world by defining it in detail. Votes: 2

If there is only one culture all over the world, that's not a good thing. Votes: 2

It's different cultures that make the world go 'round at the end of the day. Votes: 2

The Chinese culture belongs not only to the Chinese but also to the whole world. Votes: 2

Culture is to know the best that has been said and thought in the world. Votes: 2

It's obvious that the rest of the world loves high African culture - African culture, period. Votes: 2

The world has become more complex as technology and easy travel mixes cultures without homogenizing them. Votes: 2

Nevada has a world-class economy. It will only build a world-class culture with world-class research universities coupled with the Desert Research Institute. Votes: 2

Graffiti has an interesting relationship to the broader world of hip-hop: It's part of the culture, but also in a weird way a stepchild of the culture. Votes: 2

We've switched from a culture that was interested in manufacturing, economics, politics - trying to play a serious part in the world - to a culture that's really entertainment-based. Votes: 2

What 'multiculturalism' boils down to is that you can praise any culture in the world except Western culture - and you cannot blame any culture in the world except Western culture. Votes: 2

Science is a part of culture. Indeed, it is the only truly global culture because protons and proteins are the same all over the world, and it's the one culture we can all share. Votes: 2

It's very difficult to introduce the world to our culture. Votes: 0

The transcendent experience is common to every culture in the world. Votes: 0

To speak a language is to take on a world, a culture. Votes: 0

Culture which smooth the whole world licks, Also unto the devil sticks. Votes: 0

America is the world's top war-master; the most sophisticated killer-culture in history. Votes: 0

Music is in every country and every culture around the world. It's universal. Votes: 0

Whilst all the world is in pursuit of power, culture corrects the theory of success. Votes: 0

In this Western world that we have, culture risks being [only] a form of entertainment. Votes: 0

There are lots of people in the world whose existence doesn't revolve around American culture. Votes: 0

Multi-culture is the real culture of the world - the pure race doesn’t exist. Votes: 0

The Chinese culture belongs not only to the Chinese but also to the whole world. Votes: 0

Culture is to know the best that has been said and thought in the world Votes: 0

Great stories like the Mahabharata don't belong to any one culture, they belong to the world. Votes: 0

We live in secular world now, but most of our art and culture is rooted in religion. Votes: 0

Around the world today people are spontaneously spawning a culture dedicated to creating conditions conducive to life. Votes: 0

America is the only country in the world where you can suffer culture shock without leaving home. Votes: 0

Every view of the world that becomes extinct, every culture that disappears, diminishes a possibility of life Votes: 0

I'm in love with the markets of the world. It's a photograph of a city, a culture. Votes: 0

In most of the world, poetry has such a different reputation than it does in Western culture. Votes: 0

In the dancehall world, we have crews and they battle. It's part of the entire culture surrounding dancehall. Votes: 0

The things that I draw on, and the world that I feel part of, aren't particularly youth culture. Votes: 0

I love the natural world - it comes from my culture, which grew out of a people enslaved. Votes: 0

Jazz does not belong to one race or culture, but is a gift that America has given the world. Votes: 0

We're [New York] the world's second home, the place where every religion is practiced and every culture is celebrated. Votes: 0

I want to change the world. I want to be a part of culture. I want to help teach. Votes: 0

One of the major contributions of the Protestant faith to the world is the culture of dignity of labour. Votes: 0

The world's culture is changing, adapting. People are keeping what's good in a culture, and sweeping out the rest. Votes: 0

There is a tendency around the world today to copy TV culture. And that is not always a virtue. Votes: 0

New York City is the most important location in the world... it is the center for fashion, culture and finance. Votes: 0

I remember when I was young, many cities in the Muslim world were cosmopolitan cities with a lot of culture. Votes: 0

We do not birth our children into the world of nature. We birth our children into the world of culture. Votes: 0

There never has been a culture since this world began in which a New Testament Christian could feel at home. Votes: 0

I know about technology, about research, scientific applications, culture, civilization, differences between nations of the world, the nature of history. Votes: 0

The world does not need a war against 'terrorism', it needs a culture of peace based on human rights for all. Votes: 0

Children are the same the world over. They may have a different culture, but an ache or a laugh is universal. Votes: 0

I don't think the world is particularly responsive to - our world, the culture we are in, to art right now. Votes: 0

There are brands out there in the world that have an incredible influence on the culture. Numerous ones are badly done. Votes: 0

Culture is a simplification and a lie. It's the currency by which fools navigate the world. Smart people get beyond it. Votes: 0

Culture is so incredibly important because it is the foundation for all future innovation. People with passion can change the world, Votes: 0

Culture relates to objects and is a phenomenon of the world; entertainment relates to people and is a phenomenon of life. Votes: 0

Art in the art world, and culture in general, are branches of the media, which produces our political and social thinking climate. Votes: 0

A society or culture which is disposed to view the world in Manichean terms will be more vulnerable to control by propaganda. Votes: 0

I think what electronic culture permits is incredible diversity, and what the print-created world demanded and created was tremendous suppression of diversity. Votes: 0

Teens today rule the world. The whole culture - movies, music - is pointed at young people. They have so 'much' power. Votes: 0

In the world there is, parallel to the force of death and constraint, an enormous force of persuasion that is called culture. Votes: 0

Man should strive to be a gentleman in a barbaric world, merciful in a merciless time and humane in an inhumane culture. Votes: 0

I grew up in Africa surrounded by a lot of culture. It's made me aware that the world is a big place. Votes: 0

The kingdom of music is not the kingdom of this world; it will acceptthose whom breeding and intellect and culture have alike rejected. Votes: 0

Culture carries no privilege to exist. Cultures do not have value simply because they are. Some cultures, the world is better off without. Votes: 0

We live in a material world. I'm not saying that beautiful things don't enhance our lives. But, in our culture, we're never happy. Votes: 0

Those too impressed with material things cannot hold their place n the world of culture; they are relegated to inferiority and ultimate death. Votes: 0

We realized that the world of popular culture had been creating the perfect candidate for many years: the female champion of the universe. Votes: 0

Shakespeare is one of the best means of culture the world possesses. Whoever is at home in his pages is at home everywhere. Votes: 0

Chinese culture has a lot of virtues that are tremendously valuable to not only us as Asian-Americans, but also the world in general. Votes: 0

Culture' is a finite segment of the meaningless infinity of the world process, a segment on which human beings confer meaning and significance. Votes: 0

Culture represents a novelty in the world of nature, and it could have added an effective, unifying edge to the forces of natural selection. Votes: 0

In an individualistic culture, the narcissist is God's gift to the world. In a collectivist society, the narcissist is God's gift to the collective. Votes: 0

Accept yourself as you are. And that is the most difficult thing in the world, because it goes against your training, education, your culture. Votes: 0

The Web 2.0 world is defined by new ways of understanding ourselves, of creating value in our culture, of running companies, and of working together. Votes: 0

It is impossible to understand history, international politics, the world economy, religions, philosophy, or ‘patterns of culture’ without taking geography into account. Votes: 0

The consumerist culture insists that swearing eternal loyalty to anything and anybody is imprudent, since in this world new glittering opportunities crop up daily. Votes: 0

An indigenous feminism has been present in every culture in the world and in every period of history since the suppression of women began. Votes: 0

Culture makes the whole world our dwelling place; our palace in which we take our ease and find ourselves at one with all things. Votes: 0

We use the term pop in the art world, as in Pop Art, but we forget that its root is popular - popular culture. Votes: 0

If the world does improve on the whole, yet youth must always begin anew, and go through the stages of culture from the beginning. Votes: 0

As art reveals the artist more than the world, so you see yourself and what you are not in the mirror of another culture. Votes: 0

Wherever I go throughout the world - no matter the language, no matter the culture - I thrill to hear the testimonies of the Saints. Votes: 0

It's not MAN who is the scourge of the world, it's a single culture. One culture out of hundreds of thousands of cultures. Our culture. Votes: 0

And every time the Takers stamp out a Leaver culture, a wisdom ultimately tested since the birth of mankind disappears from the world beyond recall. Votes: 0

Today, Labour has a disruptive economic narrative - that Britain needs fundamental change in its market structure and culture to compete in the modern world. Votes: 0

The culture of a civilization is the art and literature through which it rises to consciousness of itself and defines its vision of the world. Votes: 0

World events can shape culture. Music is either a soundtrack for or a narration of changing times. And who knows how that's going to go? Votes: 0

We are witnessing an enormous shift of collective consciousness throughout the world. We are at the precipice of great transformation within our culture and government. Votes: 0

The best thing you can give a person is the courage and the desire to go beyond his culture, that little limited world of his! Votes: 0

We build our understanding of the emotional world through the myths and legends of our culture. We are all, in part, made of fairy tales. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

My taste in music originates from my culture and heritage, and from traveling the world and listening to all kinds of fun sounds and bits. Votes: 0

Culture, the acquainting ourselves with the best that has been known and said in the world, and thus with the history of the human spirit. Votes: 0

That whole world, the world of bodybuilding to me is fascinating. It's such a unique and interesting culture, and everything about it appeals to me. Votes: 0

In traditional schools, you're penalized for making a mistake. But that won't work in the new information culture, in the digital world we live in today. Votes: 0

The present aristocracy of western culture, at the moment when it most clearly dominates the world, is being imitated rapidly and successfully in every eastern country. Votes: 0

The present aristocracy of western culture, at the moment when it most clearly dominates the world, is being imitated rapidly and successfully in every eastern country." Votes: 0

Civilization owes to the Islamic world some of its most important tools and achievements...the Muslim genius has added much to the culture of all peoples. Votes: 0

Jewish success is due to a culture that promotes excellence, blessed with self discipline, education, dedication and a quest for leaving this world a better place. Votes: 0

In fact, Western culture has spent decades drawing lines and boxes around interconnected phenomena. We've chunked the world into pieces rather than explored its webby nature. Votes: 0

The distinction between the world of commerce and that of "culture" quickly became the distinction between infrastructure and superstructure, with the former clearly determining the latter. Votes: 0

Even though the world as a whole progresses, youth must always start again from the beginning, and as individuals go through the epochs of the world's culture. Votes: 0

I've got to where am in life not because of something I brought to the world but through something I found - the wealth of African culture. Votes: 0

It is only after we have integrated the dark side of the moon into our world view that we can begin to talk seriously of universal culture. Votes: 0

The writer crafts their ideal world. In my world, everyone has really long conversations or just picks apart pop culture to death and everyone talks in monologue. Votes: 0

Though the details differ across the world, no known culture lacks some version of the time-consuming, wealth consuming, hostility provoking rituals, the anti-factual, counter-productive fantasies of religion. Votes: 0

The Koran was revealed at a time of great change in the Arab world, the seventh-century shift from a matriarchal nomadic culture to an urban patriarchal system. Votes: 0

All is as if the world did cease to exist. The city's monuments go unseen, its past unheard, and its culture slowly fading in the dismal sea. Votes: 0

All is as if the world did cease to exist. The city's monuments go unseen, its past unheard, and its culture slowly fading in the dismal sea." Votes: 0

New Orleans is one of the most exciting, incredible communities in the world. There's such a rich culture and history, and there are innumerable things to do. Votes: 0

The whole culture is under terrible pressure and fraught with worry. It's hard to get out of that box. That's the dominant situation all over the world. Votes: 0

The Great Hall at the Met is one of the great portals of the world... From there, you can walk in any direction to almost any culture. Votes: 0

What do you expect from a culture and a nation that exerted more of its national will fighting against Disney World and Big Macs than the Nazis? Votes: 0

How do you make any sense of history, art or literature without knowing the stories and iconography of your own culture and all the world's main religions? Votes: 0

Democracy is not an incident that happens overnight, nor a gift that America can give to the world. It is a culture which needs peace to evolve. Votes: 0

Ethiopians, that is, Negroes, gave the world the first idea of right and wrong and thus laid the basis of religion and all true culture and civilization. Votes: 0

For future geopolitical stability and global prosperity, we need to build a culture of greater trust and understanding between China, America and the rest of the world. Votes: 0

I like the little bit of distance that London affords me and I like living in a world capital. I like having the culture at my fingertips. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

My works are Chinese literature, which is part of world literature. They show the life of Chinese people as well as the country's unique culture and folk customs. Votes: 0

For hundreds of years Iranians have been migrating to many parts of the world. They took Islamic culture to other parts of the world and established it there. Votes: 0

Every human being must have a point at which he stands against the culture, where he says, this is me and the damned world can go to hell. Votes: 0

I'm the last survivor of a dead culture. And I don't really belong in the world anymore. And in some ways I feel I ought to be dead. Votes: 0

I know of no culture in the world at present or any time in the past that has not been heavily involved with one or more psychoactive substances. Votes: 0

I've got to where I am in life not because of something I brought to the world but through something I found - the wealth of African culture. Votes: 0

The remix culture became very much controlled by the corporate world, it's a marketing tool mostly, to create mixes for different genres. So it's very soul-less in a way. Votes: 0

I really identified with Pocahontas' struggles as a young woman trying to identify herself in a modern, changing world and trying to stay true to her culture and heritage. Votes: 0

A citizen of the world in the fullest sense - one whose vision and culture gave him a deep empathy with fellow human beings of every creed and color. Votes: 0

Well, news is anything that's interesting, that relates to what's happening in the world, what's happening in areas of the culture that would be of interest to your audience. Votes: 0

This great, though disastrous, culture can only change as we begin to stand off and see... the inveterate materialism which has become the model for cultures around the world. Votes: 0

Japan is very cosmopolitan - it values its origins, but a world view hovers above this narrow perspective. The interest of the Japanese in their folk culture is transcendental. Votes: 0

England produces under favorable conditions of ease and culture the finest women in the world. And, as the men are affectionate and true-hearted, the women inspire and refine them. Votes: 0

Unquestionably, our contemporary world of music is far richer, in a sense, than earlier periods, due to the historical and geographical extensions of culture to which I have referred. Votes: 0

Learning has always been made much of, but forgetting has always been deprecated; therefore pedantry has pretty well established itself throughout the modern world at the expense of culture. Votes: 0

Our combination of great research universities, a pro-risk business culture, deep pools of innovation-seeking equity capital and reliable business and contract law is unprecedented and unparalleled in the world. Votes: 0