“Whoever tells the best story shapes the culture.”
“Que todo el mundo en este pueblo sea analfabeto no quiere decir que tú lo seas”
“I think poetry should be part of popular culture, in the sense that poetry should be something we reach to.”
“Culture change starts on the inside.”
“We are trying to divide the cake, which is not even baked.”
“..while I was happy enough to pray to any god, knowing that they were simply different faces created by men, of one indivisible truth.”
“bukannya teknik bertanam yang merupakan faktor yang paling penting, melainkan lebih kepada pikiran petaninya.”
“In order to be universal, you have to be rooted in your own culture.”
“We seldom realize, for example that our most private thoughts and emotions are not actually our own. For we think in terms of languages and images which we did not invent, but which were given to us by our society.”
“We have to create culture, don t watch TV, don t read magazines, don t even listen to NPR. Create your own roadshow. The nexus of space and time where you are now is the most immediate sector of your universe, and if you re worrying about Michael Jackson or Bill Clinton or somebody else, then you are disempowered, you re giving it all away to icons, icons which are maintained by an electronic media so that you want to dress like X or have lips like Y. This is shit-brained, this kind of thinking. That is all cultural diversion, and what is real is you and your friends and your associations, your highs, your orgasms, your hopes, your plans, your fears. And we are told no , we re unimportant, we re peripheral. Get a degree, get a job, get a this, get a that. And then you re a player, you don t want to even play in that game. You want to reclaim your mind and get it out of the hands of the cultural engineers who want to turn you into a half-baked moron consuming all this trash that s being manufactured out of the bones of a dying world.”
“My father used to say that stories are part of the most precious heritage of mankind.”
“Do not let your assumptions about a culture block your ability to perceive the individual, or you will fail.”
“Sexually progressive cultures gave us literature, philosophy, civilization and the rest, while sexually restrictive cultures gave us the Dark Ages and the Holocaust.”
“The soul takes nothing with her to the next world but her education and her culture. At the beginning of the journey to the next world, one s education and culture can either provide the greatest assistance, or else act as the greatest burden, to the person who has just died.”
“I will defend the absolute value of Mozart over Miley Cyrus, of course I will, but we should be wary of false dichotomies. You do not have to choose between one or the other. You can have both. The human cultural jungle should be as varied and plural as the Amazonian rainforest. We are all richer for biodiversity. We may decide that a puma is worth more to us than a caterpillar, but surely we can agree that the habitat is all the better for being able to sustain each.”
“They speak very well of you . - They speak very well of everybody. - That so bad? - Yes. It means you can´t trust them.”
“To be or not to be that is the question.”