#culture

Students of American glass must always keep in mind that the creations they collect are truly examples of our American culture... and thus have historical significance. ↗

— James Lafferty

#american #american culture #collect #creations #culture

We fully support the strikes against terrorist targets, not against the country, not against the culture, not against a religion, but against an enemy of them all. ↗

— Ricardo Lagos

#country #culture #enemy #fully #religion

One succeeds in obtaining an equivalent production at a lower price by improving the arts, trades and agriculture and by developing the physical and moral qualities of workers, farmers and craftsmen. ↗

— Antoine Lavoisier

#arts #craftsmen #developing #equivalent #farmers

In an individualistic culture, the narcissist is God's gift to the world. In a collectivist society, the narcissist is God's gift to the collective. ↗

— Christopher Lasch

#culture #gift #god #individualistic #narcissist

Each culture has its own form of staged combat, evolved from its particular method of street fighting and cleaned up for presentation as a spectacle, e.g. savate, Cornish wrestling, karate, kung-fu. ↗

— David Mamet

#combat #culture #each #evolved #fighting

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. ↗

— Adam Michnik

#anything #both #cowboys #culture #dominating

If for us culture means museum and library and open house and art gallery, for them it meant the activities and amenities of everyday life... The rift is... between "folk" culture, where the unschooled can be wise, and print culture, which enslaved the other senses to the eye. ↗

— Nick Joaquín

#education #literacy #art

Culture jamming is enjoying a resurgence, in part because of technological advancements but also more pertinently, because of the good old rules of supply and demand. Something not far from the surfaces of the public psyche is delighted to see the icons of corporate power subverted and mocked. There is, in short, a market for it. With commercialism able to overpower the traditional authority of religion, politics and schools, corporations have emerged a the natural targets for all sorts of free-floating rage and rebellion. The new ethos that culture jamming taps into is go-for-the-corporate-jugular. ↗

— Naomi Klein

#capitalism #corporate-resistance #corporations #culture #culture-jamming

Japanese had never seen a Western-style circus, and most of them had probably never seen foreigners, either. ↗

— Frederik L. Schodt

#culture #history #japan #performing-arts #art

Dieting is the most potent political sedative in women's history; a quietly mad population is a tractable one. ↗

— Naomi Wolf

#body-image #culture #dieting #eating-disorders #society