“So uncritically do we accept the idea of property in culture that we don't even question when the control of that property removes our ability, as a people, to develop our culture democratically.” PeopleIdeasCultureAbilityAcceptingPropertyRemove Book:Free Culture: The Nature and Future of Creativity Source: Free Culture: The Nature and Future of Creativity
“France can never accept that it is no longer a dominating power in the world of culture. This is true both of the French right and the French left. They keep thinking that Americans are primitive cowboys or farmers who do not understand anything.” ThinkingWorldCultureLeftAcceptingFranceFarmersPrimitiveCowboyDominating Author:Adam Michnik
“The culture has got to be only the best for Collingwood. I reckon Collingwood accepts defeat far too easily and accepts mediocrity far too easily.” CultureAcceptingDefeatMediocrityAccept Me Author:Eddie McGuire
“I see my work plagiarized in gardening programmes and decorating programmes and car adverts, and I suppose I have to accept that's just the way art gets assimilated into culture.” WayArtCultureAcceptingCarGardeningProgrammesPlagiarismDecoratingAdverts Author:Andy Goldsworthy
“Culture shouldn't be a pacifying thing. It shouldn't be something that you just passively accept. I think it should be something that, in some ways, is quite disruptive - makes you think and question things, and actually sparks debate.” ThinkingWayShouldCultureAcceptingDebateSparksMake You ThinkDisruptive Author:Jarvis Cocker
“I remember while I was at school some of my Muslim friends talked about a handful of people spoiling things in every culture. Hatred or hurt or pain isn't specific to a religion. I think it's a matter of acceptance. The one thing the world has to accept is everybody is different. What is normal to us is different and unusual to somebody else.” PeopleThinkingWorldDifferentMatterSchoolPainRememberCultureHurtAcceptingOne ThingAcceptanceNormalHatredUnusualHandful Author:Jessie J
“Together, these advocates create a pro-Israeli case so compelling that the idea and reality of Israel has worked itself deep into American culture, politics and foreign policy. Many American Jews refuse to accept it, but the real debate between Israel’s supporters and detractors in America is all but over.” IdeasRealRealityTogetherAmericaCultureAcceptingCasesPolicyJewRefuseIsraelDebateForeign PolicyCompellingSupporterIsraeliAmerican Culture Author:Aaron David Miller
“Women themselves condition their daughters to serve the system of male primacy. If a daughter challenges it, the mother will generally defend the system rather than her daughter. These mothers, victims themselves, have unwittingly become wounded wounders. Women need to attack culture's oppression of women, for there truly is a godlike socializing power that induces women to "buy in" or collude, but we also need to confront our own part in accepting male dominance and take responsibility where appropriate.” IfsNeedsMotherCultureWomenChallengesResponsibilityAcceptingConditionsDaughterVictimMalesOppressionAppropriateWoundedTaking ResponsibilityDominanceGodlikeSocializingPrimacyMale Dominance Author:Sue Monk Kidd
“Choosing beauty over content (or choosing beauty as content) is always an act of sedition. If we accept the cant of official culture, we must believe that the beauty we steal from any man-made thing is stolen from its more virtuous and metaphysical backstory, wherein "real" beauty is said to reside.” IfsMenBelieveMadeSaidRealCultureAcceptingStealingOfficialsVirtuousMetaphysicalStolenCantReal BeautyMan Made Things Author:Dave Hickey
“Muslims, who have a completely different value system, come to the West, then they should accept that there are certain basic values in the West intrinsic to our culture. Just as I wouldn't suggest that any Westerner walk down the streets of Saudi Arabia in a bikini.” ShouldDifferentCertainValuesCultureWalksAcceptingStreetsWestArabiaSaudi ArabiaSaudisBikinisWesternersValue SystemsDifferent Values Author:John Cleese
“In the days of Ram Mohan Roy when English education was introduced in this country, the Mahomedans did not accept it... They did not accept English education and at the same time they were divorced from the culture which their fathers had advanced. The result was that whereas the Hindus got on in life, got into government employment, got many things which people value in life, the Mahomedans were left without it and gradually there came to be a sort of estrangement between the two nationalities at the time of the Swadeshi movement.” PeopleTwoCountryGovernmentValuesCultureFatherLeftResultsAcceptingMovementEmploymentDivorcedNationalityValue Of LifeEstrangementRamsEnglish Education Author:Chittaranjan Das
“Singapore has been incredibly well-managed. It was created out of the swamp, with a strong emotional idea: a safe place for mostly Chinese, but accepting other cultures and other races.” WellsHas BeensIdeasCultureStrongRaceAcceptingEmotionalSafeChineseSingaporeSwampsOther CulturesSafe PlacesAccepting OthersStrong Emotional Author:Nicolas Berggruen
“For the artist, the goal of the painting or musical composition is not to convey literal truth, but an aspect of a universal truth that if successful, will continue to move and to touch people even as contexts, societies and cultures change. For the scientist, the goal of a theory is to convey "truth for now"--to replace an old truth, while accepting that someday this theory, too, will be replaced by a new "truth," because that is the way science advances.” PeopleIfsWayMovingArtistCultureGoalAcceptingSuccessfulPaintingTheoryTruth IsAspectScientistUniversalMusicalSomedayCompositionReplacedLiteralUniversal TruthCulture ChangeSociety And CultureMusical Composition Author:Daniel Levitin
“Great cycles of history began with vigorous cultures awakening to the needs of children, but collapsing with frayed family ties. Have we failed to learn lessons which Ancient China, Greece and Rome learned too late - about day care and death houses for old folks? Do we without protest accept accelerating preschool and nursing home cultures which warn ominously that the earlier you institutionalize your child, the earlier he will institutionalize you!” NeedsChildrenHomeCareSchoolCultureHouseAcceptingLessonsLateOur ChildrenAncientFolksChinaAwakeningYour ChildrenTiesToo LateProtestCyclesRomeGreeceNursingVigorousLearning LessonsPreschoolNursing HomeFamily TiesDay CareGreece And Rome Author:Raymond S. Moore