Cultural Expansion Quotes

Yes, I would agree that America, just like Spain was in the 17th Century, is the main empire of the world and they are the ones who, on the surface, are the most pushy: pushing their language, pushing their culture - or what there is of it - pushing by force their system on others.

Civilization is merely an advance in taste: accepting, all the time, nicer things, and rejecting nasty ones.

The Grammys are very wide-ranging but it's still within the Western world of music. So it would be lovely if that opened up more.

Cultural growth, like economic development rarely comes as a steady advance on all fronts at once.

My motto for Seoul is 'From Good to Great.'

Civilization is a progress from an indefinite, incoherent homogeneity toward a definite, coherent heterogeneity.

China spends a lot of resources and effort on gaining soft power over culture. The hope is that it can be the last lifeline for the Party's survival. Obviously, the idea will fail.

A new civilization was not to be improvised by a single mind.

Opera became popular in Texas the same way it did in a lot of previously isolated regions of the nation. It started with money. In the case of Texas, it was oil money, and it made a lot of people very rich, very fast.

The stream of civilisation flows on like a river: it is rapid in mid- current, slow at the sides, and has its backwaters. At best, civilisation advances by spirals.

Festival line-ups should have all types of music. It's part of cultural growth.

I am pleased for Poland as a country, that new motorways are being constructed, new businesses, new stadiums.

Civilization consists in the multiplication and refinement of human wants.

Unquestionably, our contemporary world of music is far richer, in a sense, than earlier periods, due to the historical and geographical extensions of culture to which I have referred.

I love hip hop music and would do anything to help the culture blow up in China because it's been so underground. I just want people know how good this culture is, how good the music is, and how it can change your life.

The more rapidly a civilization progresses, the sooner it dies for another to rise in its place.

Wherever we can multiply our forces and our civilizational efforts, absorbing other elements, no law can prohibit us from doing so, as such actions are our duty.

I want to take that step, being a Latin girl, and doing my Spanish music, but I want to go global. International.

The wider any culture is spread, the thinner it gets.

I'm with expanding in my culture, from the Dominican Republic all the way to Cape Verde. Please believe that.

Civilization is not a spontaneous generation with any race or nation known to history, but the torch to be handed down from race to race from age to age.

We are going to set up a branch of the St Petersburg Mariinsky Theatre here [on the Far Easter]. We are also planning to open local branches of the Hermitage Museum and the Vaganova Academy of Russian Ballet.

We remake the world through our technologies, and these in turn remake and extend us, in ever spiraling lattices of complexity. McLuhan uncannily foresaw the future, where electronic technology would shape and expand cultures and societies into a global membrane of communications.

This world has seen a great many civilizations. And many of them have survived for longer periods than ours up to the present. They were all as sure as we are today of having founded the first eternal civilization. We today differ from them in having our western civilization spread to embrace the entire planet, leaving no room on any continent for any other culture to take over if we fail.

What is the thread of western civilization that distinguished its course in history? It has to do with the preoccupation of western man with his outward command and his sense of superiority.