Culture Quotes

I began demonstrating against serious culture. In hindsight, the actual course of events has been very humiliating for me, because no one picked up on the intellectual critique I made.

Culture follows power.

In a culture where profit has become the true God, self-sacrifice can seem incomprehensible rather than noble.

Things that are obvious don't need to be talked about. Things that are missing, do.

What we can see depends heavily on what our culture has trained us to look for.

If you don't have public hangings for bad culture in a company, if you don't take people out and let them say, they went home to spend more time with the family. It's crazy.

I'm not silly enough to think I'm going to change the whole culture ... but I do have a belief that soccer can go to a different level.

I think it'd be useful for parents to know kind of what is the culture of an institution.

Europe is like the Roman Empire - indulged, decadent, flooded with immigrants and unprepared to fight for its culture.

Art is such an important part of our culture.

News is like food: it is the cooking and serving that makes it acceptable, not the material itself.

As a student of American culture, I am willing to argue that the Twist is a valid manifestation of the Age of Anxiety.

in all cultures, human beings - in order to be human - must understand the nonhuman.

At Cambridge, it was the weirdest culture. Everyone pretended they didn't do any work, yet it was so competitive.

I think most people assume if you're a Latino in Texas, you're Mexican. It's not really a problem, and I love so much about Mexican culture and the Mexican people.

Having a clear mission and making sure you know that mission and making sure that mission comes through the company is probably the most important thing you can do for both culture and values.

When the dominant images of a culture are anticipatory, they "lead" social development and provide direction for social change.

Marilyn Manson is a mockery of American pop culture.

So I've never found there was any particular separation between the two cultures at all, musically speaking.

The only true and effective "operator's manual for spaceship earth" is not a book that any human will ever write; it is hundreds of thousands of local cultures.

Social media does not change your culture, it reveals it.

Genuine wit implies no small amount of wisdom and culture.

I didn't want my music to be seen as examples of an electronic culture; I just wanted them to be thought of as pieces of music.

American culture is CEO obsessed. We celebrate the hard-charging heroes and mythologize the iconoclastic visionaries. Those people are important.

Popular literature and culture used to reflect people's aspirations, pain, and passion. All those particular things are no longer available to us.

Greece appears to be the fountain of knowledge; Rome of elegance

Every time I see high-trust cultures, I see a lessening of adversarialism.

Just by being private, the culture will change. We won't be forced to make decisions that are 90 days in relevance.

I think it talks about that there needs to be some proactive attack against drugs infiltrating our culture.

I'm not really part of that 'L.A. thing' or that celebrity culture. I'm more like someone who observes it, and I can't ever imagine being like that.

Professional footballers - those virile young stags of our modern culture - are near perpetual fountains of sputum.

After 9/11, we realized that all these silly culture wars, and arguing about rock lyrics... who cares? You know, we, for some reason, remembered what our real problems are.

And where I grew up in Australia, surfing was a part of culture.

If you look at our world, we're becoming so much more diverse in every sense of the word. It's not just about culture or identity. It's also about the different ways we communicate.

In Japan, Australia, and England there is such a strong youth culture.

Well, it's an adventure story, and a Bildungsroman, of course, but there was also the intention to describe a culture that had been seen in rather narrow terms.

The visual power of the phonetic alphabet is the translate other languages into itself is part of its power to invade right hemisphere (oral) cultures.

The history of a culture can be determined by its untranslatable words.

Culture has become one of the last elements of our identity. We have to act in favor of cultural diversity abroad as well as at home, we need strong cultural diplomacy but we have to create it.

Los Angeles had no culture of its own, just a large collection of misreadings of the artistic histories of other, proper cities.

Our culture rightly admires risk-takers, but we need our 'heed-takers' more than ever.

So many people just have that innate thing that allows them to express themselves in a way the majority can follow. That's when you're affecting culture.

The oppressed martyrs of our culture have shed blood that nourish the red tulips of our nation.

How do you build a successful organization or culture? It's the people. The people part, in business and basketball, is huge.

So American culture is itself a hybrid and lends itself to use in other people's hybrids.

There must not be a canon of orthodoxy where art is judged and measured. The culture cannot move forward with our heads turned backwards.

The various forms of intellectual activity which together make up the culture of an age, move for the most part from different starting-points, and by unconnected roads.

Most people who have grown up introverted in this very extroverted culture of ours have had painful experiences of feeling like they are out of step with what's expected of them.

When the playful me shows up, I am ready to be a serious learner … a culture of playfulness is closely related to the capacity to learn.

I'm sure I will cause tremendous seismic shifts in the culture again.