Now it seems like there is no culture. The school of fish are all separate. Everybody's just randomized, listening to their own thing in their earbuds. That's going to be the downfall of music, if anything. Nobody enjoys one thing anymore.
The message delivered with unrelenting enthusiasm by our culture is, 'You can be happy without discipline. Do whatever you feel like doing and you will be happy!' While the Church says, 'You cannot be happy without discipline In fact, discipline is the path to happiness!'
Neither your family nor your culture gave you your personality. You created it yourself.
When the playful me shows up, I am ready to be a serious learner … a culture of playfulness is closely related to the capacity to learn.
Humanity is waiting for us. Not to hear about our actions, but to see our actions.
That is relinquishing control in a culture that prioritizes control and doing what you need to do in order to advance yourself.
But our culture is in truly bad shape if we have come to define respecting something as the failure to set it on fire.
In world history, those who have helped to build the same culture are not necessarily of one race, and those of the same race have not all participated in one culture.
Every time you hear anyone talk about the Caribbean, whether it's Caribbeans themselves or people outside, there's always talk about women's bodies. Talk about this voluptuousness, this kind of stereotype of what a Caribbean person is. And I think these are stereotypes that even people inside the culture, we actually sometimes claim them and we're very proud.
[Everybody Loves Somebody] one really loves both cultures, represents them in a very accurate, genuine, authentic, fun, fresh way, and it includes so many more people because it has that language aspect to it.
Being unique is never easy, and often, by the time culture catches up with you, there are only a few people who notice.
Part of maintaining a thriving creative culture is giving people time and permission to play.
If you want to have a creative culture, you can't get it by reading books. You get it by example.
Prig and philistine, Ph. D. and C. P. A. , despot of English 218c and big shot of the Kiwanis Club-how much, at bottom, they both hate Art, and how hard it is to know which of them hates it the more.
Reality TV is sleazy, it is manipulative. It is as momentary as anything in popular culture.
Conquest, tyranny, treachery, and the clash of cultures bring about corrupt societies, and so does old age. Sometimes the five faces of corruption are visible at the same time.
Jazz, of course, is our heritage. Jazz is a culture, it's not a fad. It's up to us to see to it that it stays alive.
When a culture simply shrugs about what happens to people in war, it breaks the fragile sequence, the bond between all people.
The ideals of technological culture remain underdeveloped and therefore outside of popular culture and the practical ideals of democracy. This is also why society as a whole has no control over technological developments. And this is one of the gravest threats to democracy in the near future. It is, then, imperative to develop a democratic technological culture.
The body must be regarded as a site of social, political, cultural and geographical inscriptions, production or constitution. The body is not opposed to culture, a resistant throwback to a natural past; it is itself a cultural, the cultural product.