Culture Quotes

[A] high minded gallantry in defense of the foundations of Christian culture.

You know, when it was done originally, they always had to fight to keep it going at the end of each season. Now, The Odd Couple has become part of our language and culture.

In organizations (or even in a society) where culture is weak, you need an abundance of heavy, precise rules and processes.

The only way to know how customers see your business is to look at it through their eyes

Popular culture is morally bankrupt, flagrantly licentious and utterly materialistic-and Madonna is the worst of all.

Truth can never be confined to time and culture; in history it is known, but it also reaches beyond history.

Only faith in Christ gives rise to a culture contrary to egotism and death.

I'm so fascinated by the concept of teen pregnancy for some reason. Not that I condone it or promote it, but it's just a very real thing in our country and culture.

There has to be innate circuitry that does the learning, that creates the culture, that acquires the culture, and that responds to socialization.

The Left is doing to America what it has done to almost everything it has deeply influenced - the arts, the university, religion, culture, minorities, Europe: ruining it.

Mythology is a subjective truth. Every culture imagines life a certain way.

Government and culture are two diametrically opposed forces - the one blinds and oppresses, the other uplifts and unites.

American culture at large has failed working mothers.

Books like Twilight are not art. They are mass-produced crap that is meant to be consumed by the widest possible audience, for the largest possible profit.

Unhealthy cultures create addiction. Healthy cultures create social bonds.

I occasionally feel contempt for that attitude [degree of sexual desire towards me] when I perceive it, but maybe that's not fair. By our culture we've been taught who is most valued and who is not.

Human social institutions can effect the course of human evolution. Just as climate, food supply, predators, and other natural forces of selection have molded our nature, so too can our culture.

I like the little bit of distance that London affords me and I like living in a world capital. I like having the culture at my fingertips.

There's a small group of guys in hip-hop that really have money. The whole culture talks about money, but it's a small group that actually has it.

I believe only in French culture and consider everything in Europe that calls itself 'culture' a misunderstanding, not to speak of German culture.

In a school where everyone is famous or rich or whatever, you have a culture, 'What does your dad do?' 'What does your mom do?

I'm fairly out of the loop when it comes to pop culture.

The Soviet Union is like the Cross without Christ, while American culture is like Christ without the Cross.

I come from a culture that has refined the art of the dirge to a sublime level.

I assure you that interest in Japanese culture in Russia is just as strong as interest in Russian culture in Japan.

People in the U.S. are more cranked up on pharmaceutical drugs than any other culture in the world today. I want people using safer medicine. And that means plant medicine.

I have a huge interest in Japan, which is well known, including its history and culture, and so it will be very interesting for me to see and learn more about Japan.

Im Jewish and Italian, and I lucked out and got the nose of both cultures.

The Jaguar's Children is a beautifully rendered lament for an imperiled culture and the brave lives that would preserve it. You should read it.

In the realm of culture, the new totalitarianism manifests itself precisely in a harmonizing pluralism, where the most contradictory works and truths peacefully coexist in indifference.

I was deepening my understanding of what we call the cultural commission, the command to take dominion and bring righteousness to our culture.

I had consumed a lot of American culture, but I was not quite prepared for the reality of American poverty.

My parents weren't artistic, but I was always surrounded by beautiful things. And Mexico is a country which has experienced thousands of years of art and culture.

When you go visiting countries, you start reading the history of the place and you start getting into the culture, and then you have to leave. In my experience, all countries have hidden treasures.

I'm part of the consumer culture. I was part of the baby boom generation. I have a car when I shouldn't, a couple of computers; I can't be anti-consumerist in that sense.

Popular culture - above all rock 'n' roll, with its African-American R & B roots - did far more to radicalize us than did any feminist leader.

The drug culture has shaped at least one major change since the Sixties; It became the basis for overloading our prisons.

American culture is kind of an international culture, isn't it? British culture is a bit more unique. I think funny things are sort of funny around the world, really.

You really have to soak up the culture of the people to get it right. If you're making a fiction film, it's entertainment, but you want it to be as real as possible.

I will not perform in this city as long as the blatant targeting of black culture and minorities congregating is acceptable common practice.

Do not, under any circumstances, put this book down and turn on the teevee. The teevee debilitates our culture.

Art is the questioning of culture

In India, therapy is not part of the culture; it has not become such a big need.

Color is one way the eye and the brain work together to define the external world. However, not all cultures see color in the same way, nor do they give it as much importance as in western culture.

Enthusiasm is like having two right hands.

I got a little bit of the Marine mentality from my dad, I guess. You can't but help absorb the culture you're around.

I use the phrase 'sibling society' to suggest a culture fundamentally without fathers, mothers, grandfathers, grandmothers, or ancestors. The thinking is horizontal.

I'm involved in so many different things, and there are so many profound reactions to what I do because I am big counter culture.

I was in Paris last year, where there's a great appreciation of many different aspects of African culture and of black culture. The music... the art... whatever... And I kind of went with that.

What gets in our way is history and culture and religion and economic conditions. It is part of the hypnosis of our social conditioning.