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Culture
«It is the mark of the cultured man that he is aware of the fact that equality is an ethical and not a biological principle»
Author: Ashley Montagu
| About:
Culture,
Equality,
Ethics
| Keywords:
biological, cultured, ethical, The Mark of
«In some South Pacific cultures, a speaker holds a conch shell as a symbol of temporary position of authority. Leaders must understand who holds the conch that is, who should be listened to and when.»
Author: Max De Pree
| About:
Culture,
Leadership
| Keywords:
conch, cultures, listened, Pacific, shell, speaker
«I think that one possible definition of our modern culture is that it is one in which nine-tenths of our intellectuals can't read any poetry»
«It is difficult to produce a television documentary that is both incisive and probing when every twelve minutes one is interrupted by twelve dancing rabbits singing about toilet paper.»
«It is so stupid of modern civilization to have given up believing in the devil when he is the only explanation of it»
Author: Ronald Knox
(Theologian, Writer)
| About:
Civilization,
Culture,
Devil
| Keywords:
explanation
«I believe that in the history of art and of thought there has always been at every living moment of culture a 'will to renewal'. This is not the prerogative of the last decade only. All history is nothing but a succession of 'crises', of rupture, re»
Author: Eugene Ionesco
| About:
Art,
Culture,
History
| Keywords:
crises, decade, history of art, last decade, prerogative, prerogatives, rupture, ruptured, succession
«I believe that in a great city, or even in a small city or a village, a great theater is the outward and visible sign of an inward and probable culture.»
Author: Laurence Olivier, Sir
(Actor, Film Director, Producer)
| About:
Culture,
Theater
| Keywords:
inward, probable, theater, village
«Noble life demands a noble architecture for noble uses of noble men. Lack of culture means what it has always meant: ignoble civilization and therefore imminent downfall.»
«I do not want my house to be walled in on all sides and my windows to be stuffed. I want the cultures of all the lands to be blown about my house as freely as possible. But I refuse to be blown off my feet by any.»
«I think of art, at its most significant, as a DEW line, a Distant Early Warning system that can always be relied on to tell the old culture what is beginning to happen to it.»
Author: Marshall McLuhan
(Educator, Social Reformer, Writer)
| About:
Art,
Culture
| Keywords:
dew, distant, Distant Early Warning, early warning system, relied, significant, warning