Culture Quotes

There are those who are trying to create an anti-business culture in Britain - and we have to stop them. At stake are not pay packages for a few but jobs and prosperity for the many.

Greek culture is pleasant to contemplate because of its great simplicity and naturalness, and because of the absence of gadgets, each of which is sooner or later a cause of servitude.

The intensity of a national culture should be represented by... the general education level and... the exceptional merit of a small elite of pioneers.

There's this de facto assumption that for something to have value, it has to be economically self-supporting - which imposes a very low ceiling on a culture.

I worry about a culture that devalues life and believe as your president I have an important obligation to foster and encourage respect for life in America and throughout the world.

For too long our culture has said, "If it feels good, do it." Now America is embracing a new ethic and a new creed: "Let's roll".

So it is the policy of the United States to seek and support the growth of democratic movements and institutions in every nation and culture, with the ultimate goal of ending tyranny in our world.

Culture of life is really important for a country to have if it's going to be a hospitable society.

The pope [Francis] knows that the marriage culture is in crisis throughout the world, and so is the family.

The world's culture is changing, adapting. People are keeping what's good in a culture, and sweeping out the rest.

Oppressed cultures often envy those which are not, or oppressed individuals do, and sometimes those which - and who - are not envy those which - who - are.

English culture is basically homosexual in the sense that the men only really care about other men.

With all that we hear of American hustle and hurry, it is rather strange that Americans seem to like to linger on longer words.

It is true that I am of an older fashion; much that I love has been destroyed or sent into exile.

Muslim citizens should never be classified according to their creed, origin, ancestry or culture. After all, I don't define my political or social position by reference to the Christian faith.

By moving to London I removed myself from the madness of the entertainment industry. I love the city and the culture, and it was an opportunity to bring my children up in a more sane environment.

It's an honor to represent a Latin culture.

Sports will always be important in global culture, and so fashion, as a reflection of cultural trends, will always incorporate influences from sports.

What other culture could have produced someone like Hemmingway and not seen the joke?

Raising awareness about the Deaf culture is a huge cause that I advocate. Because both of my parents are deaf, I am passionate about it in an entirely different way.

I always expect there to be a new counter-culture coming up, something that would make punk look as ridiculous as punk made the hippies look.

There aren't any looks or customs I wish would come back. Today almost anything goes. Culture constantly devours the past so there's not much that's missing.

After the collapse of Wall Street in the 1920s, the culture stopped being all about money, and the country survived and ultimately flourished.

I celebrate every culture. I love the mix of cultures and I'm never going to change that because that's inspiring to me.

Every culture to me - be it Asian, African, be it whatever - is a source of reference. I don't think I'm 'stealing' it or anything.

There's a sense of humor within the Australian culture that prevails when one is in a rather difficult situation.

Culture itself is neither education nor law-making: it is an atmosphere and a heritage.

Culture changes with economic development.

Capitalism is a warrior culture, a hierarchical mode, and Las Vegas is its epitome.

Culture is not usually one of the criterion for personhood, but it has been argued that culture is sort of a medium for a lot of these criteria, such as empathy, and so on.

A bunch of individuals do the same thing because they learned from watching each other or somebody else. That's what we would call culture.

Blog culture has a hard time digesting narratives, but it has an easy time digesting 'big ideas' pieces.

We have not yet realized that the Indian and his culture were fundamental to the growth of Canadian institutions.

Whatever offices of life are performed by women of culture and refinement are thenceforth elevated; they cease to be mere servile toils, and become expressions of the ideas of superior beings.

Republicans cannot be trusted to end the culture of corruption.

I know how hard it can be to communicate in a different country, find your way around, and deal with the mentality of other people and different cultures.

Photography is the only "language" understood in all parts of the world, and, bridging all nations and cultures, it links the family of man.

If you are building a culture where honest expectations are communicated and peer accountability is the norm, then the group will address poor performance and attitudes.

If we live in the Nineteenth Century, why should we not enjoy the advantages which the Nineteenth Century offers? Why should our life be in any respect provincial?

The culture of the hop ... so analagous to the culture and uses of the grape, may afford a theme for future poets.

Alas! the culture of an Irishman is an enterprise to be undertaken with a sort of moral bog hoe.

Schools resemble the culture of prisons.

There is a need for subjects who find intense pleasure in commodification of violence and a culture of cruelty.

The market-driven spectacle of war demands a culture of conformity, quiet intellectuals and a largely passive republic of consumers.

As the welfare state is hollowed out, a culture of compassion is replaced by a culture of violence, cruelty and disposability.

Young black men are considered dangerous, expendable, threatening and part of a culture of criminality.

Women never dine alone. When they dine alone they don't dine.

People who own property feel a sense of ownership in their future and their society. They study, save, work, strive and vote. And people trapped in a culture of tenancy do not.

Shakespeare is one of the best means of culture the world possesses. Whoever is at home in his pages is at home everywhere.

Dream study impacts culture. We are put in touch with the inner poet who dreams. We hear our inner, subjective response to the outer world. That helps spiritualize our lives.