Culture Quotes

Without culture, and the relative freedom it implies, society, even when perfect, is but a jungle. This is why any authentic creation is a gift to the future.

People have moments of consciousness and epiphanies throughout their lives, but then suppress the realization.

The greatest change in corporate culture - and the way business is being conducted - may be the accelerated growth of relationships based... on partnership.

The movement of abstract art... bears within itself at almost every point the mark of the changing material and psychological conditions surrounding modern culture.

There is no better motto which it [culture] can have than these words of Bishop Wilson, "To make reason and the will of God prevail."

Don't ask who said it? Ask what they said.

It's a huge thing when people realize across the culture that paper money is paper. And that there's no fixed value - it's all political. That all value is set by a political authority, basically.

Culture is only true when implicitly critical, and the mind which forgets this revenges itself in the critics it breeds. Criticism is an indispensable element of culture.

The sick individual finds himself at home with all other similarly sick individuals. The whole culture is geared to this kind of pathology.

Black women must challenge black men to live up to their best in every arena of the culture - at job, at home, in school and in religious arenas.

The denial of death is openly acknowledged as a significant trait of our culture. The tears of the bereaved have become comparable to the excretions of the diseased

We're coming into a rebirth of the planet. And some cultures have echoed it, such as the Mayans have echoed that, and it came from the ancient Egyptians.

Culture's worth huge, huge risks. Without culture we're all totalitarian beasts.

The introduction of LSD and psychedelics into the culture produced a transformation of the entire culture, the consciousness of the culture.

People in this country haven't stopped hating fat people, but they've become more kind to me, since in our culture, even though we hate our fat people, we love our celebrities even more.

We need a new global culture that finds the existence of millions of thirsty people thoroughly and immediately unacceptable.

America is a consumer culture, and when we change what we buy - and how we buy it - we'll change who we are.

Fat people are so rarely included in visual culture that fat is perceived as a blot on the landscape of sleek and slim.

I was raised inside the gang culture.

There's no chivalry in culture any more. Sometimes you meet someone who everyone says is polite and you're like, 'Wow,' but then it's like, 'Hang on, isn't everyone supposed to be polite?'

The players today reflect how much the game has evolved and changed both in style and culture. [...] The game now has a wider appeal to a larger market.

It's wonderful to find cultures that are historically still intact, as opposed to a lot of Western cultures which seem to me to be slowly dying, stuck in celebrity illness or stupidity.

Customer service is not a department, it's everyone's job.

Fame is drag. The paparazzi culture is more pervasive than it used to be. On the positive side, it’s nice not to have to worry about bills.

Selling MP3s or physical copies, it's still cool, but I think it's slowly becoming outdated to where people just want to build a culture. The culture's what you're selling at this point.

in our culture, the professional, and largely white, middle class is taken as a social norm - a bland and neutral mainstream - from which every other group or class is ultimately a kind of deviation.

There's not a lot of people expressing anger in the culture. They're expressing a lot of hyper-exaggerated sexuality.

Culture is an instrument wielded by professors to manufacture professors, who when their turn comes will manufacture professors.

If Irish or Italian culture dies in America it really isn't that big a deal. They will still exist in Italy and Ireland. Not so with us. There is no other place. North America is our old country.

It used to be thought that our genes were historically immutable and that it was not possible to imagine a conversation between culture and genetics.

Culture is your operating system.

When you think, you think in terms of your culture.

Making of poetry, music, dance and art as culture-making in the service of nation-making. You can find writings that make that purpose for art quite explicit.

I love how pop culture shapes a generation. The trends, fashion and events all play a key part in how we live our present lives, and will mark how we will be remembered in the future.

As the soil, however rich it may be, cannot be productive without cultivation, so the mind without culture can never produce good fruit

One of the things about the whole Harley motorcycle culture is that it's a little bit renegade.

Chinese people today have strong demand for culture, but we need effective supply, and China needs innovative cultural products.

We're stronger and braver TOGETHER. Do not let this world and this narcissistic culture make competitors out of the very people who are meant to be your comrades in arms.

When I started graduate school I was interested in the culture of the Civil Rights Movement.

This is what Baylor is all about, .. This is 2012 and it implements faculty expertise and it allows students to experience international culture, not only that, but a culture within a culture.

I want young people to know that they can belong - whatever your culture, your religion, your sexuality - that you can live life how you want to live it and feel comfortable how you are.

I've always loved black culture; I don't know any other way to put it. Since I was a kid I loved music and early jazz, Sly and the Family Stone.

human beings seem to hold on more tenaciously to a cultural identity that is learned through suffering than to one that has been acquired through pleasure and delight.

We need only look to our Navajo Code Talkers during World War II to see the value that Native languages bring not only to their culture, but to the security of all Americans.

It is the highest form of culture and craftmanship in art to use local materials. That way you stand a chance of adding to culture. The other way you are in danger of merely imitating it.

It is an ideology born out of hatred and its adherents belong to no religion, culture or civilisation.

You have to accustom yourself to practical study at home, you have to devote time to studies, to the history of chess, the development of chess theory, of chess culture.

When it comes to radical youth culture nothing sells better than neatly packaged and politically correct rage against the world where everything is politically correct and neatly packaged for sale.

Participating in the newest communications technologies becomes compulsory if you want to remain part of the culture.

The antagonism between the poet and the politician has generally been evident in all cultures.