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Art at its most significant is a Distant Early Warning System that can always be relied on to tell the old culture what is beginning to happen to it.
Written by Marshall McLuhan
Culture's worth huge, huge risks. Without culture we're all totalitarian beasts.
Written by Norman Mailer
Television is the first truly democratic culture - the first culture available to everybody and entirely governed by what the people want. The most terrifying thing is what people do want.
Written by Clive Barnes
The relentless pressures of the so-called marketplace have distorted all our culture industries.
Written by Mark Crispin Miller
If there are signs that Americans bow to the gods of advertising, there are equally indications that people find the gods ridiculous. It is part of the popular culture that advertisements are silly.
Written by Michael Schudson
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.
Written by John Berger
If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to follow his vision wherever it takes him.
Written by John F. Kennedy
Don't tire yourself more than need be, even at the price of founding a culture on the fatigue of your bones.
Written by Antonin Artaud
Jerusalem is a festival and a lamentation. Its song is a sigh across the ages, a delicate, robust, mournful psalm at the great junction of spiritual cultures.
Written by David K. Shipler
The commencement speech is not, I think, a wholly satisfactory manifestation of our culture.
Written by John Kenneth Galbraith
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.
Written by Marshall McLuhan
I have made more friends for American culture than the State Department. Certainly I have made fewer enemies, but that isn't very difficult.
Written by Arthur Miller
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.
Written by Laurence Olivier
My main mistake was to have made an ancient people advance by forced marches toward independence, health, culture, affluence, comfort.
Written by Mohammed Reza Pahlavi
Little ol' boy in the Panhandle told me the other day you can still make a small fortune in agriculture. Problem is, you got to start with a large one.
Written by Jim Hightower
Culture is properly described as the love of perfection; it is a study of perfection.
Written by Matthew Arnold
A primary function of art and thought is to liberate the individual from the tyranny of his culture in the environmental sense and to permit him to stand beyond it in an autonomy of perception and judgment.
Written by Lionel Trilling
You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.
Written by Ray Bradbury
I see little of more importance to the future of our country and of civilization than full recognition of the place of the artist. If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to follow his vision wherever it takes him.
Written by Pauline Kael
If you do not breathe through writing, if you do not cry out in writing, or sing in writing, then don't write, because our culture has no use for it.
Written by Anais Nin
A test of a people is how it behaves toward the old. It is easy to love children. Even tyrants and dictators make a point of being fond of children. But the affection and care for the old, the incurable, the helpless are the true gold mines of a culture.
Written by Abraham Joshua Heschel
What other culture could have produced someone like Hemingway and not seen the joke?
Written by Gore Vidal
You do not know our culture, our ethics, or the unwritten codes that already provide our society more order than could be obtained by any of your impositions.
Written by John Perry Barlow
Company cultures are like country cultures. Never try to change one. Try, instead, to work with what you've got.
Written by Peter Drucker
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.
Written by Max de Pree
Suppose we were able to share meanings freely without a compulsive urge to impose our view or conform to those of others and without distortion and self-deception. Would this not constitute a real revolution in culture.
Written by David Bohm
Russia is a part of European culture. Therefore, it is with difficulty that I imagine NATO as an enemy.
Written by Vladimir Putin
No people come into possession of a culture without having paid a heavy price for it.
Written by James A. Baldwin
If we are to achieve a richer culture, rich in contrasting values, we must recognize the whole gamut of human potentialities, and so weave a less arbitrary social fabric, one in which each diverse human gift will find a fitting place.
Written by Margaret Mead
I think music in itself is healing. It's an explosive expression of humanity. It's something we are all touched by. No matter what culture we're from, everyone loves music.
Written by Billy Joel

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