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Quotes about culture
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If mass communications blend together harmoniously, and often unnoticeably, art, politics, religion, and philosophy with commercials, they bring these realms of culture to their common denominator -- the commodity form. The music of the soul is also the music of salesmanship. Exchange value, not truth value, counts. (Bikel Theodore)
The ideas of the ruling class are in every epoch the ruling ideas, i.e., the class which is the ruling material force of society, is at the same time its ruling intellectual force. (Bikel Theodore)
A society person who is enthusiastic about modern painting or Truman Capote is already half a traitor to his class. It is middle-class people who, quite mistakenly, imagine that a lively pursuit of the latest in reading and painting will advance their status in the world. (Bikel Theodore)
A society person who is enthusiastic about modern painting or Truman Capote is already half a traitor to his class. It is middle-class people who, quite mistakenly, imagine that a lively pursuit of the latest in reading and painting will advance their status in the world. (Bikel Theodore)
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Men are not suffering from the lack of good literature, good art, good theatre, good music, but from that which has made it impossible for these to become manifest. In short, they are suffering from the silent shameful conspiracy (the more shameful since it is unacknowledged) which has bound them together as enemies of art and artists. (Bikel Theodore)
Culture is the widening of the mind and of the spirit. (Bikel Theodore)
All objects, all phases of culture are alive. They have voices. They speak of their history and interrelatedness. And they are all talking at once! (Bikel Theodore)
If everybody is looking for it, then nobody is finding it. If we were cultured, we would not be conscious of lacking culture. We would regard it as something natural and would not make so much fuss about it. And if we knew the real value of this word we would be cultured enough not to give it so much importance. (Bikel Theodore)
For the rest, whatever we have got has been by infinite labor, and search, and ranging through every corner of nature; the difference is that instead of dirt and poison, we have rather chosen to fill our hives with honey and wax, thus furnishing mankind with the two noblest of things, which are sweetness and light. (Bikel Theodore)
The manner of their living is very barbarous, because they do not eat at fixed times, but as often as they please. (Bikel Theodore)
Culture is an instrument wielded by teachers to manufacture teachers, who, in their turn, will manufacture still more teachers. (Bikel Theodore)
Mrs. Ballinger is one of the ladies who pursue Culture in bands, as though it were dangerous to meet it alone. (Bikel Theodore)
Culture is the arts elevated to a set of beliefs. (Bikel Theodore)
Letting a hundred flowers blossom and a hundred schools of thought contend is the policy for promoting the progress of the arts and the sciences and a flourishing culture in our land. (Bikel Theodore)
Our culture runs on coffee and gasoline, the first often tasting like the second. (Bikel Theodore)
Hoping to get people to go to museums again, New York City has started a new ad campaign called "I Love New York Culture". But if they want me to go back to museums, they should name the campaign "Sorry We Yelled At You For Touching Stuff, Jimmy Fallon. (Bikel Theodore)
Find a priest who understands English and doesn't look like Rasputin. (Bikel Theodore)
I remember talking to Russell Simmons at the time and he said seven years ago they said this wouldn't last and here we are and we're still kicking and here it is now 27 or 30 years later and it's still, not only is it still kicking, it's just the culture of America, popular culture and beyond. (Bikel Theodore)
He took exception to that, and he's right, ... This is culture. What is counterculture is 'The Anna Nicole Smith Show. (Bikel Theodore)
I do like things that are not necessarily a reflection of what is considered the right thing by this culture. Somehow, promoting that status quo I find uninteresting. (Bikel Theodore)
It's ironic that in our culture everyone's biggest complaint is about not having enough time; yet nothing terrifies us more than the thought of eternity. (Bikel Theodore)
Growing up in a very demonstrative kind of culture, Italian-Americans would sing a lot, and I think my grandfather, singing out the window, probably had the greatest influence in my life. (Bikel Theodore)
“Although (the Mayan culture) is an integral part of the story, what I am doing is creating an action-adventure of mythic proportions ... and I am a megalomaniac, so I like the position” (Bikel Theodore)
Postman is a media analyst and his theory is that television doesn't influence our culture, but that it is our culture and the presidency and anything that relies on television. (Bikel Theodore)
I'm not part of the cultural elite. I'm a down-home girl. Always have been, always will be. (Bikel Theodore)
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