#culture

It is a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more money writing or talking about his art than he can by practicing it. ↗

— W. H. Auden

#art #culture #earn #fact #his

It's a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more money writing or talking about his art than he can by practicing it. ↗

— W. H. Auden

#art #culture #earn #fact #his

The culture industry not so much adapts to the reactions of its customers as it counterfeits them. ↗

— Theodor Adorno

#culture #customers #industry #much #reactions

I've benefited from the best of both societies and both cultures, East and West. ↗

— King Abdullah II

#best #both #cultures #east #i

You can't walk alone. Many have given the illusion, but none have really walked alone. Man is not made that way. Each man is bedded in his people, their history, their culture, and their values. ↗

— Peter Abrahams

#culture #each #given #his #history

The type of fig leaf which each culture employs to cover its social taboos offers a twofold description of its morality. It reveals that certain unacknowledged behavior exists and it suggests the form that such behavior takes. ↗

— Freda Adler

#certain #cover #culture #description #each

Santa is our culture's only mythic figure truly believed in by a large percentage of the population. It's a fact that most of the true believers are under eight years old, and that's a pity. ↗

— Chris Van Allsburg

#believed #believers #culture #eight #fact

When you look at Japanese traditional architecture, you have to look at Japanese culture and its relationship with nature. You can actually live in a harmonious, close contact with nature - this very unique to Japan. ↗

— Tadao Ando

#architecture #close #contact #culture #harmonious

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? ↗

— David Bohm

#conformity

I even felt a vicarious guilt, like a German meeting Jewish people in Poland who had never heard of the Holocaust, or that there were Jews in America, and trying to explain it to them. Ashea, I wished I could say. Ashea. ↗

— Neil Peart

#racism #holocaust