Culture Quotes

Spiritual activity, education, civilization, culture, the idea are all vague, indefinite concepts, u...

This history of culture will explain to us the motives, the conditions of life, and the thought of t...

Doctors, dressed up in one professional costume or another, have been in busy practice since the ear...

Organizations like the UN do a lot of good, but there are certain basic realities they never seem to...

Most of the institutions that come in to offer help after disaster don't have the resources to provi...

Coming from an Asian culture, I was always taught to respect my elders, to be a better listener than...

A primary function of art and thought is to liberate the individual from the tyranny of his culture ...

The function of literature, through all its mutations, has been to make us aware of the particularit...

If you have to ask what jazz is you will never know." Louis Armstrong

Someone has said that culture is what remains with you after you have forgotten all you have read, a...

I've always had an affinity and a passion for cars and that whole car culture.

Not every religion has to have St. Augustine's attitude to sex. Why even in our culture marriages ar...

It seems to me that, in every culture, I come across a chapter headed 'Wisdom.' And then I know exac...

An entire mythology is stored within our language.

If we spoke a different language, we would perceive a somewhat different world.

It's amazing how, age after age, in country after country, and in all languages, Shakespeare emerges...

The only difference between man and man all the world over is one of degree, and not of kind, even a...

I want the cultures of all lands to be blown about my house as freely as possible. But I refuse to b...

I want the cultures of all lands to be blown about my house as freely as possible. But I refuse to b...

Right now, in every big city ghetto, tens of thousands of yesterday's and today's school dropouts ar...

You won't find a CEO who doesn't talk about a 'powerful culture' as a source of competitive advantag...

A people without the knowledge of their past history, origin and culture is like a tree without root...

Our problem right now is that we're so specialized that if the lights go out, there are a huge numbe...

Also she went in for culture, which gave her a certain moral authority. It wouldn't now; but people ...

I guess that's how they were able to do it, in the way they did, all at once, without anyone knowing...

If there is anything in the life of any culture or period that gives good grounds for alarm, it is t...

Once a culture becomes entirely advertising friendly, it seizes to be a culture at all.

Culture is very important to the Mavs. Your best player has to be a fit for what you want the cultur...

A modern revolutionary group, explained Abbie Hoffman, headed for the television station, not the fa...

Don't you sense the enormity of your mistake – you invade a country without understanding its music....

I believe Western culture -- rule of law, universal suffrage, etc. -- is preferable to Arab culture:...

I would rather decline two drinks than one German adjective.

Travel is fatal to narrowmindedness, prejudice and bigotry.

I think of art, at its most significant, as a DEW line, a Distant Early Warning system that can alwa...

The deal with multiculturalism is that the only culture you're allowed to disapprove of is your own.

One cannot worship the false god of nationalism and the God of Christianity at the same time. .

If you want to change the culture, you will have to start by changing the organization.

I have a need to make these sorts of connections literal sometimes, and a vehicle often helps to do ...

Those of us in the first American generations have had to figure out how the invisible world the emi...

There is nothing quite so tragic as a young cynic, because it means the person has gone from knowing...

In an unfamiliar culture, it is wise to offer no innovations, no suggestions, or lessons. The epitom...

Culture makes all men gentle.

Raising children is, in a sense, the reason the society exists in the first place. It's the most imp...

Simply by starting to cook again, you declare your independence from the culture of fast food. As so...

Every cuisine has its characteristic 'flavor principle,' Rozin contends, whether it is tomato-lemon-...

Cooking gave us not just the meal but also the occasion: the practice of eating together at an appoi...

The shared meal elevates eating from a mechanical process of fueling the body to a ritual of family ...

The more serious about gardening I became, the more dubious lawns seemed. The problem for me was not...

Human cultures vary widely in the plants they use to gratify the desire for a change of mind, but al...

For a culture that has such a problem with death, we seem to deal with it in a quite bizarre way. We...

Morals are built on religious faith. Virtue is built on morality and influences a culture.

We can have no significant understanding of any culture unless we also know the silences that were i...

We can make a commitment to promote vegetables and fruits and whole grains on every part of every me...

The problem is when that fun stuff becomes the habit. And I think that's what's happened in our cult...

therein lies the power of culture: it redeems horror by transforming it into existential wisdom. If ...

The first step in liquidating a people,' said Hubl, 'is to erase its memory. Destroy its books, its ...

It’s not the note you play that’s the wrong note – it’s the note you play afterwards that makes it r...

The American culture promotes personal responsibility, the dignity of work, the value of education, ...

Without a doubt, it [Canada] is the land God gave to Cain.

If Canada had a soul (a doubtful proposition, Moses thought) then it wasn't to be found in Batoche o...

Come forward as servants of Islam, organize the people economically, socially, educationally and pol...

We should have a State in which we could live and breathe as free men and which we could develop acc...

Vision without power does bring moral elevation but cannot give a lasting culture.

Engaging in social business is beneficial to a company because it leverages on business competencies...

Phrases like 'the team spirit' are always employed to cut across individualism, love and personal lo...

In spite of the huge diversity in Malaysia in terms of religion, culture, race, ethnicity and so for...

Well, right now, I'm very fascinated with 1920s Berlin. I mean, probably the more interesting thing ...

Unix is not so much a product as it is a painstakingly compiled oral history of the hacker subcultur...

I even felt a vicarious guilt, like a German meeting Jewish people in Poland who had never heard of ...

The clearest way to see through a culture is to attend to its tools for conversation.

For no medium is excessively dangerous if its users understand what its dangers are. It is not impor...

Think of Richard Nixon or Jimmy Carter or Billy Graham, or even Albert Einstein, and what will come ...

Moreover, we have seen enough by now to know that technological changes in our modes of communicatio...

I should go so far as to say that embedded in the surrealistic frame of a television news show is a ...

I claim that space is part of our culture. You've heard complaints that nobody knows the names of th...

The education I received was a British education, in which British ideas, British culture, British i...

What makes a civilization real to its inhabitants, in the end, is not just the splendid edifices at ...

The Japanese had no idea what elements of Western culture and institutions where the crucial ones, s...

After 1968 the restored communist regime required all Czech rock musicians to sit a written exam in ...

Often we blame a region's religion when the oppression instead may be rooted in its culture. Yet, th...

We need to teach our kids, because there is such a celebrity culture at the moment, that however ric...

Books are, let's face it, better than everything else. If we played Cultural Fantasy Boxing League, ...

Since we launched the original 'Pop Idol' in England, I've remained close with Simon Fuller. Working...

Look, part of the whole technique of disempowering people is to make sure that the real agents of ch...

It is the thesis of this book that society can only be understood through a study of the messages an...

When a society decays, it is language that is first to become gangrenous. As a result, social critic...

Academic life is but half life it is a withdrawal from the fight to utter smart things that cost you...

The fictive structure, my work, my imagination, my books are about the details, the huge constructio...

In Europe the rich are refined enough to act as if they're not wealthy. That is how civilized people...

To give an accurate description of what has never occurred is not merely the proper occupation of th...

I see, in place of that empty figment of one linear history which can be kept up only by shutting on...

Scientists are wont to assume that myths and God-ideas are creations of primitive man, and that as s...

The decision must be made between Judaism and Christianity, between business and culture, between ma...

People are all exactly alike. There's no such thing as a race and barely such a thing as an ethnic g...

I was having dinner…in London…when eventually he got, as the Europeans always do, to the part about ...

It's not a crime to offend others; in fact, it's pretty much a natural consequence of having diverse...

It's not a crime to offend others; in fact, it's pretty much a natural consequence of having diverse...

The bipolar world of the Cold War is history. The new world order, however, is not the One World dre...

Just as there's garbage that pollutes the Potomac river, there is garbage polluting our culture. We ...

...he refused to consider the Moroccans' present culture, however decadent, an established fact, an ...