“The distinction between the world of commerce and that of "culture" quickly became the distinction between infrastructure and superstructure, with the former clearly determining the latter.” WorldCultureFormerDistinctionLatterCommerceInfrastructure Author:Allan Bloom
“Many oriental cultures make a distinction between two ways of looking - 'hard eyes' and 'soft eyes'. When we look with hard eyes, we see specific details with sharp focus, but we don't see the relationships between different details as well. When we look with soft eyes we see the relationships between everything in our field of vision, but with this softer focus, we don't see all the details as clearly. It's possible to look in two ways at once.” WayWellsLooksTwoDifferentHardEyeCultureVisionFocusFieldsPhotographerDetailsDistinctionTwo Ways Author:John Paul Caponigro
“I make a distinction between manners and etiquette - manners as the principles, which are eternal and universal, etiquette as the particular rules which are arbitrary and different in different times, different situations, different cultures.” DifferentCultureSituationPrinciplesParticularEternalUniversalMannersDistinctionArbitraryEtiquetteDifferent TimesDifferent Cultures Author:Judith Martin
“It is generally admitted that the cultural values (humanization) and the existing institutions and policies of society are rarely,if ever, in harmony. This opinion has found expression in the distinction between culture and civilization, according to which "culture" refers to some higher dimension of human autonomy and fulfillment, while "civilization" designates the realm of necessity, of socially necessary work and behavior, where man is not really himself and in his own element but is subject to heteronomy, to external conditions and needs.” IfsMenNeedsHumansValuesCultureFoundOpinionConditionsSubjectsPolicyExpressionHigherCivilizationBehaviorElementsHarmonyInstitutionsFulfillmentRealmsDimensionsDistinctionAutonomy Author:Herbert Marcuse
“There are some despotic governments so filled with a feeling of insecurity that they regard the free life of culture as a threat to their existence. ... On the other extreme is the kind of popular government which is so distrustful of all forms of distinction that it sees even in the cultivated individual a menace to its existence. Such states are likely to maintain a pressure which discourages cultural endeavor, although the pressure may be exerted through social channels.” KindMayStatesFeelingsGovernmentFormCultureIndividualSocialExistencePressureRegardFilledThreatExtremesDistinctionInsecurityEndeavorDiscouragingMenaceFree Life Author:Richard M. Weaver