#cult

Our institute's agenda is relatively simple. We study the relationship between social-economic change and culture. By culture we mean beliefs, values and lifestyles. We cover a broad range of issues, and we work very internationally. ↗

— Peter L. Berger

#beliefs #between #broad #broad range #change

The negative side to globalization is that it wipes out entire economic systems and in doing so wipes out the accompanying culture. ↗

— Peter L. Berger

#culture #doing #economic #entire #globalization

We also have a cultural phenomenon: the emergence of a global culture, or of cultural globalization. ↗

— Peter L. Berger

#cultural #culture #emergence #global #globalization

Until 45 I can play a woman in love. After 55 I can play grandmothers. But between those ten years, it is difficult for an actress. ↗

— Ingrid Bergman

#after #between #difficult #grandmothers #i

Intelligence is the faculty of making artificial objects, especially tools to make tools. ↗

— Henri Bergson

#especially #faculty #intelligence #make #making

In the olden days, everybody sang. You were expected to sing as well as talk. It was a mark of the cultured man to sing. ↗

— Leonard Bernstein

#days #everybody #expected #man #mark

I don't think you can in any way export culture with guns or tanks. ↗

— Bernardo Bertolucci

#culture #export #guns #i #tanks

It is true I had been successful on a small scale in overcoming one of the main difficulties in the new process, but there was still much to invent, and much that at that period I necessarily knew nothing about. ↗

— Henry Bessemer

#been #difficulties #had #i #invent

I even found it difficult to watch myself playing on TV because I couldn't identify with the person on the screen. I couldn't get to grips with it. It was as if it was all happening to someone else. ↗

— George Best

#difficult #else #even #found #get

Ignorance is an evil weed, which dictators may cultivate among their dupes, but which no democracy can afford among its citizens. ↗

— William Beveridge

#among #citizens #cultivate #democracy #dictators