Culture Quotes

For individuals, character is destiny. For organizations, culture is destiny.

Not all intelligence can be artificial now, so if we make a mistake, the consequences are no longer simply located within an institution or a national culture.

The teacher of history's work should be, ideally, not simply a description of past cultures, but a performance of the culture in which we live and are increasingly taking our being.

This will arguably be the third great revolution of America, if we can prove that we literally can live without having a dominant European culture.

Shaft was a pop culture figure along t he lines of, I guess, Dirty Harry - except that he wasn't as much of a racist. So yeah, I was always a fan.

I believe in monogamy if that's what a couple decides upon together, but it all depends on the personal history and culture of the two involved.

A culture that denies death inevitably becomes shallow and superficial, concerned only with the external form of things. When death is denied, life loses its depth.

And Cape Town is not what it used to be. Foreigners have left their imprint on our culture.

I'm convinced that in a healthy society, artistic norms should be constantly under question which is not of course, to deny the need for continuity.

The fact is, that civilization requires slaves. Unless there are slaves to do the ugly, horrible, uninteresting work, culture and contemplation become almost impossible.

Get the culture right, and everything else just falls into place.

Yehudi Menuhin was a citizen of the world in the fullest sense - one whose vision and culture gave him a deep empathy with fellow human beings of every creed and color.

Learning is nothing without cultivated manners, but when the two are combined in a woman, you have one of the most exquisite products of civilization.

I don't know why it is that we need to denigrate, to knock down. It's so sick.

The foundation of culture, as of character, is at last the moral sentiment.

Eight Hours For What We Will is a major contribution to modern American working-class history and to the history of a changing American popular and mass culture.

I think it's very important for us to start to build a culture of resistance, because what we're doing isn't working, clearly.

I don't see a film industry in Germany. They have a great TV culture, but how many German films are really exciting?

The kingdom of music is not the kingdom of this world; it will accept those whom breeding and intellect and culture have alike rejected.

Our culture is superior. Our culture is superior because our religion is Christianity and that is the truth that makes men free.

We culture. Rap is the new rock 'n roll. We the rockstars. It's been like that for a minute, Hedi Slimane!

All peoples enjoy freedom, and freedom for the development of their culture... There is no Jewish problem in the Soviet Union at all... I have many friends who are Jews.

It is no longer a question of controlling a military-industrial complex, but rather, of keeping the United States from becoming a totally military culture.

Placing on writers the responsibility to represent a culture is an onerous burden.

Culture and politics were inseparable [in the Sixties], which gave a soundtrack to political awareness and activism.

Q: When you are already in the lead, how do you to stay ahead?

Youth culture now really looks back and embraces the past, but keeps it contemporary but not sticking to one particular style.

Newspapers are a centre of public culture. We can’t give in to extortion.

Zen culture invites us to experience reality without the intervening distractions of intellect, categories, analysis.

Native people such as the Cherokees are just as human and complex and real as Americans are, and our nation needs to respect American Indian cultures and traditions.

I believe the artist is capable of contributing to the broader evolution of culture in all of its dimensions.

A society or culture which is disposed to view the world in Manichean terms will be more vulnerable to control by propaganda.

In the interstices of language lie powerful secrets of the culture.

What chance of survival does a culture have when its own elites actively seek its destruction?

Here's the thing about earnestness. Our culture discounts it; but people are yearning for it.

I respect the British a lot - their history, their past, their culture. I think it's beautiful, what they have with the monarchy.

Mainstream Canadians, what some might call the dominant culture, like to think this racism doesn't happen. It's important to remind people that it does and that we have work to do to end it.

It's a culture. It's - I mean, people obsess over this. And people create subcultures that identify - and there are people in the streets who will recognize certain patterns and signifiers.

The gospel has supernatural versatility to address the particular hopes, fears, and idols of every culture and every person.

No writer or thinker has taught me as much as James Hunter has about this all-important and complex subject of how culture is changed.

Learning has always been made much of, but forgetting has always been deprecated; therefore pedantry has pretty well established itself throughout the modern world at the expense of culture.

Diligent as one must be in learning, one must be as diligent in forgetting; otherwise the process is one of pedantry, not culture.

Concerning culture as a process, one would say that it means learning a great many things and then forgetting them; and the forgetting is as necessary as the learning.

Whenever there's a change with Jazz & its aesthetics, it's almost always reflected with a change in the culture.

[Cultural department] understand nothing but bureaucratic daily affairs. They don't care about culture.

The ultimate solution to the problem of spiritual complacency is to create a systematically embedded culture of holy urgency.

To me, the decathlon is its own little society and I am part of that culture.

As a Latin man, obviously immigration has been a part of my culture for decades. [I] grew up understanding what you go through in order to come to this country and searching for that American dream.

If the pros at Sun had had a chance to fix Java, the world would be a much more pleasant place. This is not secret knowledge. It's just secret to this pop culture.

Culture means the perfect and equal development of man on all sides.