Culture Quotes

Sell practical, tested merchandise at a reasonable profit, treat your customers like human beings - and they will always come back.

Because I was raised in a Christian culture I never considered myself to be a totally free human being.

Now the culture is made of old things, it's a collage. Art made out of art is not art. You're supposed to make art out of life.

The truest test of civilization, culture and dignity is character and not clothing.

We Have the Ability to Achieve, If We Master the Necessary Goodwill, a Common Global Society

We have our own history, our own language, our own culture. But our destiny is also tied up with the destinies of other people - history has made us all South Africans.

Poor Britons, there is some good in them after all - they produced an oyster.

The idea of the sacred is quite simply one of the most conservative notions in any culture, because it seeks to turn other ideas - uncertainty, progress, change - into crimes.

For sheer majestic geography and sublime scale, nothing beats Alaska and the Yukon. For culture, Japan. And for all-around affection, Australia.

A man should be just cultured enough to be able to look with suspicion upon culture at first, not second hand.

In this present culture, we need to find the means to work and live together with less aggression if we are to resolve the serious problems that afflict and impede us.

Service is what life is all about.

There is an emergent enlightenment appearing today, unique to no particular culture or ethnicity. Anyone who chooses to be, is its conduit.

Underground electronic music is art - fundamentally it's based on contemporary art, culture, dance, and real music. If you look at EDM, how many of those cultural standpoints are the same?

I'm seeing people float further and further away from the idea and the culture that we tried to create, and it really pisses me off.

Television is completely another medium. For me, Lady Gaga and HBO are bringing us to mass culture.

The culture at Valve is pretty much crowdsourced. The handbook is a wiki. One of the first things we say to new hires is, 'You have to change something in the handbook.'

It was play rather than work which enabled man to evolve his higher faculties - everything we mean by the word 'culture'.

My father used to say that you could only access culture before cinema by learning to read and write, but that once cinema was invented, knowledge was available to anybody.

The truly civilized man is always skeptical and tolerant, in this field as in all others. His culture is based on 'I am not too sure'.

When I go to Japan and do shows I play for 1,000 to 1,500 people. I like a lot about Japan. Their popular culture and mass commercialization appeals to me.

Anger does not make history. Power does. And power may be supplemented by anger, but it derives from more fundamental realities; geography, demographics, technology, and culture.

Music is always a reflection of what's going on in the hearts and minds of the culture.

I never could see anything wrong in sensationalism; and I am sure our society is suffering more from secrecy than from flamboyant revelations.

music alone can abolish differences of language or culture between two people and evoke something indestructible within them.

Multiculturalism is based on the lie that all cultures are morally equal.

It's partly because our culture so hyper-sexualizes females that if you don't measure up to whatever we're forced to think is the standard, then you feel inadequate.

If there is only one culture all over the world, that's not a good thing.

I have a foolproof device for judging whether a picture is good or bad. If my fanny squirms, it's bad. If my fanny doesn't squirm, it's good.

This is the political culture of the United States, which one should accept as is. The United States is a great country and it deserves non-interference and no third-party comments.

Self-denial is the test and definition of self-government.

The entire culture was organized for people who are happy. People who are miserable need reassurance that other people are miserable.

Whatever the country, whatever the culture, whatever the time, when you become a big enough organization, you start to collapse and slow down.

Culture is the one thing that we cannot deliberately aim at. It is the product of a variety of more or less harmonious activities, each pursued for its own sake.

I know somebody in every culture.

I'd much rather talk to a 30-year old that survived rough times in their lives [practicing Straight Edge] rather than someone that was harmed by a culture of violence.

Between the marketplace and government there exists all of that which makes life worth living-family life, spiritual life, the art and culture that make our spirits soar.

We're so afraid of death in our culture, but I think if we understand it better, then we'll appreciate the life we have more.

We live in a culture where it's just delicious to shame and blame. We have what I call sometimes a "smugtocracy."

Liberate yourself from the illusion of culture. Take responsibility for what you think and what you do.

I think in Atlantic Canada, because of what happened in the decades following Confederation, there is a culture of defeat that we have to overcome.

Our culture is ill-equipped to assert the bourgeois values which would be the salvation of the under-class, because we have lost those values ourselves.

On street corners everywhere, people are looking at their cell phones, and it's easy to dismiss this as some sort of bad trend in human culture. But the truth is life is being lived there.

Italy is not widely thought of as a pioneer of youth culture in the way, say, the UK is.

Our culture is biased against quiet and reserved people, but introverts are responsible for some of humanity's greatest achievements.

A football team represents a way of being, a culture.

Landscape shapes culture

We need to challenge the dominant culture: by ethics, principles and values.

In corporate culture, in sports culture, in the media, we honor those who win at all costs.

The boundaries of culture and rainfall never follow survey lines.