#culture

I think that New York is not the cultural centre of America, but the business and administrative centre of American culture. ↗

— Saul Bellow

#america #american #american culture #business #centre

As a culture I see us as presently deprived of subtleties. The music is loud, the anger is elevated, sex seems lacking in sweetness and privacy. ↗

— Shelley Berman

#culture #deprived #elevated #i #i see

I make no claim that Jewish culture is superior to other cultures or that the Jewish song is better than the song of my neighbor. ↗

— Theodore Bikel

#claim #culture #cultures #i #jewish

Culture is a way of coping with the world by defining it in detail. ↗

— Malcolm Bradbury

#culture #defining #detail #way #world

My works are Chinese literature, which is part of world literature. They show the life of Chinese people as well as the country's unique culture and folk customs. ↗

— Mo Yan

#chinese people #country #culture #customs #folk

We have our own history, our own language, our own culture. But our destiny is also tied up with the destinies of other people - history has made us all South Africans. ↗

— Mangosuthu Buthelezi

#culture #destinies #destiny #history #language

To husband is to use with care, to keep, to save, to make last, to conserve. Old usage tells us that there is a husbandry also of the land, of the soil, of the domestic plants and animals - obviously because of the importance of these things to the household. And there have been times, one of which is now, when some people have tried to practice a proper human husbandry of the nondomestic creatures in recognition of the dependence of our households and domestic life upon the wild world. Husbandry is the name of all practices that sustain life by connecting us conservingly to our places and our world; it is the art of keeping tied all the strands in the living network that sustains us. And so it appears that most and perhaps all of industrial agriculture's manifest failures are the result of an attempt to make the land produce without husbandry. ↗

— Wendell Berry

#farming #husbandry #land #sustainability #art

Self-governing cultures both inspire alignment and eject elements that don't fit in. ↗

— Dov Seidman

#business

Art indeed may not change anything, and yet on some very basic level, life is insupportable without it. ↗

— Richard Matturro

#beauty #culture #life #meaning #spiritual

A lifelong movie I already knew the ending to ↗

— Jason Najum

#essay #memoir #pop-culture #movies