Cultural Deprivation Quotes

There's so much beautiful music in the world, and the kids are getting robbed.

London centre has a wealth of creative activity but there are parts of London where there isn't a cinema or where library provision is quite weak.

In my family, education was something you endured. My parents weren't educated past high school, and the only book in our house was a 'Reader's Digest' condensed book. Can you imagine?

Life without literature is a life reduced to penury.

A semi-starved nation can have neither religion nor art nor organization.

a steady diet of mass culture is a form of deprivation.

When I have been exposed to so many films that are so bad, my soul gets crushed. I just feel intoxicated.

Growing up, I lived in a house without art: no picture books on the shelves, no visits to museums, no posters on the bedroom wall.

Outside of Paris, there is no hope for the cultured.

I sometimes think the contemporary white American is more culturally deprived than the Indian.

I'd never even seen a play by the time I was 24 years old.

Even though education was key in my family, I had no access to museums or art where we lived. I was a bit starved.

I was raised in rural south Jersey, and there was no culture there. There was a small library, and that was it. There was nothing else.

A theater is being given over to market forces, which means that a whole generation that should be able to do theater as well as see it is being completely deprived.

When people are deprived of a sense, their other senses get heightened. If you're culturally devoid of something - of weather, of artistry, of interesting architecture, all the way down the line to culture itself - you're either forced to give in and get that car dealership, or you manufacture those things for yourself.

Formally, I did my studies in the sciences, but I was very conscious that I was being deprived of culture. While studying neuroscience, I was running a rock-music festival and was able to use that as a platform to explore what it takes to produce art for 20,000 inebriated 20-somethings.

As a culture I see us as presently deprived of subtleties. The music is loud, the anger is elevated, sex seems lacking in sweetness and privacy.

Radicalism usually prospers in the gap between rising expectations and declining opportunities. This is especially true where the population is young, idle, and bored; where the art is impoverished; where entertainment—movies, theater, music—is policed or absent altogether; and where young men are set apart from the consoling and socializing presence of women.

I grew up in a middle-class house without books, without art. No one around me wrote poetry or even read it.

Worship isn't destructive, Martin. I know that. I don't. I only know it's the core of his life. What else has he got? He can hardly read. He knows no physics or engineering to make to world real for him. No paintings to show him how others have enjoyed it. No music except television jingles. No history except tales from a desperate mother. No friends. Not one kid to give him a joke, or make him know himself more moderately. He's a modern citizen for whom society doesn't exist.

But knowledge to their eyes her ample page Rich with the spoils of time did ne'er unroll; Chill Penury repressed their noble rage, And froze the genial current of the soul.

Many a woman shudders... at the terrible eclipse of those intellectual powers which in early life seemed prophetic of usefulness and happiness, hence the army of martyrs among our married and unmarried women who, not having cultivated a taste for science, art or literature, form a corps of nervous patients who make fortunes for agreeable physicians.