Culture Quotes

If comparison is the thief of joy, then our culture is being robbed blind.

Hong Kong film audiences are very quiet. It's their culture.

As a comic, I used to know more about pop culture.

In the Bhagavat culture worship of the spiritual master plays a very important role in our life.

I am aware of myself as a four-hundred-year-old woman, born in the captivity of a colonial, pre-industrial oral culture and living now as a contemporary New Yorker.

Who is one's audience, the spiritually hostile professional art world or one's visually insensitive Christian neighbour?

Nothing in our culture, not even home computers, is more overrated than the epidermal felicity of two featherless bipeds in desperate congress.

The man who is seeking truth is free of all societies and cultures.

Although I was brought up in a culturally and religious conservative culture, as a Baptist I was taught that no one has the right to subpoena your conscience.

The films I enjoy seeing are those that reveal lives I was unaware of... in different cultures or whatever.

For a comedian to kind of catch onto something right as something's catching on in our culture, a lot of it is luck, and you hope the joke is funny.

When it comes to continual improvement programs, the biggest mistake is a failure to launch, the biggest hurdle is culture.

The role of the federal government should be neutral toward culture just as it is toward religion.

When I was 24 I went to Nigeria and it was such a culture shock, growing up in Australia and suddenly being the only white man in this unit full of black men.

Technical problems can be remediated. A dishonest corporate culture is much harder to fix.

I was searching for something a little more than a dashing metaphor, a good deal less than a cultural map: and for those purposes the two cultures is about right.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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 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.

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 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.

This history of culture will explain to us the motives, the conditions of life, and the thought of the writer or reformer.

Change occurs slowly. Very often a legal change might take place but the cultural shift required to really accept its spirit lingers in the wings for decades.

Laughing in the cultural industry is mockery of happiness.

We've finally given liberals a war against fundamentalism, and they don't want to fight it. They would, except it would put them on the same side as the United States.

Be out of the mainstream. I'm out of the mainstream. I enjoy it, who wants to be in the mainstream?

The '60s redefined narcissism as idealism.

A woman made of parts is a dangerous thing. You never know when she'll throw away a piece you may need.

You may be desperate, but never let anyone see you as anything less than a cultivated woman.

I love pop culture -- the Rolling Stones, the Doors, David Lynch, things like that. That's why I said I don't like elitism.

The stronger a culture, the less it fears the radical fringe. The more paranoid and precarious a culture, the less tolerance it offers.

If what you create seems to turn out much stranger than who you are as a person, it's probably because your heart is talking.

Every new generation believes its own period to be absolutely superior intellectually - greater than all past cultures yet equal among its modern cultures.

Any good teacher knows how important it is to connect with students and understand our culture.

Culture is the study of perfection, and the constant effort to achieve it.

Man is a culture, nothing but a culture! Question your culture! Just like monkeys picking lice from their skin, get rid of the stupidities in your culture!

Our culture has long mistrusted the body. It's been seen as a confusing blend of God's handiwork and the devil's playground. It is, rather, a vortex of intelligence.