Culture Quotes - Page 14

[O]ne person's 'barbarian' is another person's 'just doing what everybody else is doing.

To ask women to become unnaturally thin is to ask them to relinquish their sexuality.

Publicity is the life of this culture - in so far as without publicity capitalism could not survive - and at the same time publicity is its dream.

Societies have a peculiar way of relating, or more accurately non-relating, to rape maybe because it is so vicious, they choose to live in denial about it.

We are amazing individuals.

To conform to a sick society is to become sick.

We have a name for the sum of grievances and compromises, this sheer normality of life lived among other people. We call it civilization. Culture, society, the workaday interactions of ordinary time.

you know
how I know
I’m a girl?
tears,
sudden
unbidden
tears
stinging my eyeballs

Ignorance binds people tighter than culture.

Loyalty, respect for authority and some degree of sanctification create a more binding social order that places some limits on individualism and egoism.

ثقافت کِسی قانون کا نام نہیں ہے اورناہی ثقافت میں پائی جانے والی ہرچیز قابلِ رشک ہوا کرتی

Often we don't notice the stringent rules to which our culture subjects us.

I believe he was feeling a bit nervous. Possibly it was my costume that took him aback. I was dressed quite well, even elegantly, and looked as if I belonged to the best society.

When a society decays, it is language that is first to become gangrenous. As a result, social criticism begins with grammar and the re-establishing of meanings

Are the worst enemies of society those who attack it or those who do not even give themselves the trouble of defending it?

Es ist [...] meine tiefe Überzeugung, dass die Freiheit das Allerwichtigste im Zusammenleben ist und erst Freiheit unserer Gesellschaft Kultur, Substanz und Inhalt verleiht.

Social psychologist argued that even severe mental illness was the result of society labeling unusual behavior rather than of biochemical processes.

This particular strand of feminism is characterized by two tenets: 1. men are jerks, and 2. women should strive by all means to become like them.

Design creates culture. Culture shapes values. Values determine the future.

[O]urs is a culture of the perpetual present, one that deliberately severs itself from the past that created us as well as the future we are shaping with our actions.