Cultural Necessity Quotes

Family entertainment is really very necessary in our culture. Look how profitable they are. It's almost not discretionary. You need to take your family to the movies.

If there were no poetry on any day in the world, poetry would be invented that day. For there would be an intolerable hunger.

Religious ideas have sprung from the same need as all the other achievements of culture: from the necessity for defending itself against the crushing supremacy of nature.

Beauty has no obvious use; nor is there any clear cultural necessity for it. Yet civilization could not do without it.

Most of humanity gets by without reading novels or poetry, and no one would deny the richness of their thoughts.

I have no culture, no humane harmony in my brains. I can't live without a culture anymore.

Hip-hop was created out of necessity. We needed to create some digitized things to help us understand what we were feeling.

What a lost person needs is a map of the territory, with his own position marked on it so he can see where he is in relation to everything else. Literature is not only a mirror; it is also a map, a geography of the mind. Our literature is one such map, if we can learn to read it as our literature, as the product of who and where we have been. We need such a map desperately, we need to know about here, because here is where we live. For the members of a country or a culture, shared knowledge of their place, their here, is not a luxury but a necessity. Without that knowledge we will not survive.

The use of expressive colors is felt to be one of the basic elements of the modern mentality, an historical necessity, beyond choice.