Culture Quotes
The myths underlying our culture and underlying our common sense have not taught us to feel identical with the universe, but only parts of it, only in it, only confronting it - aliens.
It's very important not to do what your peers think you should do, not do what your parents think,your teachers or even your culture. Do what's inside of you.
Let's get used to other cultures. Portray the world for what it is and you will find truth.
You will be faced with facing all the things in yourself that keep you from knowing who you are, you'll have to stand up to roles and definitions that your family and culture have given you.
Culture shock is often felt sharply at the borders between countries, but sometimes it doesn't hit fully until you've been in a place for a long time.
Our critique of Israel has to be about the state, not culture or religion, but the state of Israel
I found a greater identity with my own emotions in the Armenian culture as I grew older, as well as from the beginning, although I didn't know anything about it.
We have all of us to some extent become inured to a culture where viciousness and depravity are simply taken for granted, like some hideous wallpaper we have lived with for years.
We are always making God our accomplice so that we may legalize our own inequities.
If you want to stay in business, satisfy customers. If you want to excel in business, delight customers.
A lot of contemporary American culture makes its way to this county. Cuba is not some gray, isolated backwater. This is a happening place.
The core of common culture is religion. Tribes survive and flourish because they have gods, who fuse many wills into a single will, and demand and reward the sacrifices on which social life depends.
Although, okay, in Scotland, the boys wear the skirts. But as far as pop culture, women were on the forefront of the unisex movement and I'm grateful to you.
People are only mean when they're threatened, and that's what our culture does. That's what our economy does.
Culture is the passion for sweetness and light, and (what is more) the passion for making them prevail.
And if you can find any way out of our culture, then that's a trap too. Just wanting to get out of the trap reinforces the trap.
To give an accurate description of what has never occurred is not merely the proper occupation of the historian, but the inalienable privilege of any man of parts and culture.
It is a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more money writing or talking about his art than he can by practicing it.
A truly vibrant and creative culture depends on a system of education which is not divided along class and sectarian lines.
For my father there was no sharper way to understand a country than by listening to its stories.
It would be good for us Africans to accept ourselves as we are and recapture some of the positive aspects of our culture.
Positive culture comes from being mindful, and respecting your coworkers, and being empathetic.
When L.A.’s schizophrenia between Dreamland and Utopia was becoming socially manifest, the United States, which was always a place, went to war with America, which was always an idea.
I'd like to state that Spike Lee is not saying that African American culture is just for black people alone to enjoy and cherish. Culture is for everybody.
In this country, the health concerns and the environmental concerns are as deep as in Europe. All the surveys show that. But here, we didn't have the cultural dimension. This is a fast-food culture.
When you die, your culture takes you in, and then, if you've given enough, your place is near the centre.
When we create out of our experiences, as feminists of color, women of color, we have to develop those structures that will present and circulate our culture.
There is a lot of food culture that goes on in the home and in the community in non-traditional ways. Food is a lot more than restaurants.
George Tenet has been the director of central intelligence since 1997, time enough to have changed the Agency's culture. He has failed. He should go.
The culture of independent film criticism has totally gone down the drain and this seems to come with the territory of the consumer age that we are now living in.
What separates or unites people is not their language, their laws, their customs, their principles, but the way they hold their knife and fork.
The writer crafts their ideal world. In my world, everyone has really long conversations or just picks apart pop culture to death and everyone talks in monologue.
When a society decays, it is language that is first to become gangrenous. As a result, social criticism begins with grammar and the re-establishing of meanings
Spiritual space is lost in gaining convenience. I saw the need to create a mixture of Japanese spiritual culture and modern western architecture.
It's really cool to see glowsticks at the show, to see dance music culture infiltrating and becoming one with the metal community.
Whatever may be their use in civilized societies, mirrors are essential to all violent and heroic action.
In the West, you have always associated the Islamic faith 100 percent with Arab culture. This in itself is a fundamentalist attitude and it is mistaken.
While her lips talked culture, her heart was planning to invite him to tea
Coming from an Asian culture, I was always taught to respect my elders, to be a better listener than a talker.
To be an enduring, great company, you have to build a mechanism for preventing or solving problems that will long outlast any one individual leader.
Father's Day is hopefully a time when the culture says, 'This is our moment to look at who our men and boys are.'
American culture is torn between our long romance with violence and our terror of the devastation wrought by war and crime and environmental havoc.
Painting, it is true, was undergoing a series of -isms reminiscent of the whims of a pregnant woman.
