Culture Quotes

Being unique is never easy, and often, by the time culture catches up with you, there are only a few people who notice.

There are religions and social and moral awareness in any society that gets passed immediately. Those human truths. All cultures address them.

My whole access into culture was violent. Violence is something I understand. Don't like it, don't condone it, but I sure understand where it comes from.

I'm not trying to say I'm a big tough guy... I'm a typical American-waist deep in this violent culture.

This society turns everything it touches into a potential source of progress and exploitation, of drudgery and satisfaction, of freedom and of oppression.

I hope to use dialogue and culture as a means of bringing people of various cultures together, and using that as a way to resolve conflict.

I'm not allowing my perspective to be dictated by the dominant culture.

Sweet treats are as much a part of our culture as they are our taste palettes, and it can sometimes seem as though sugary snacks are everywhere.

Is virtue raised by culture, or self-sown?

One thing we didn't know in 1996 is that it's very, very difficult, if not impossible, to sustain a culture with online advertising.

We will never-and I mean never-turn our backs on our employees.

The atheist worldview of life is a materialistic culture that frees humanity from superstition.

Although we love the idea of choice - our culture almost worships it - we seek refuge in the familiar and the comfortable.

Quacks are a part of our culture, and we all fall prey to them. Who among us can say, for sure, that even our own personal physicians are honest and competent?

Crack is ruining the drug culture.

Exclusively oral cultures are unencumbered by dead knowledge, dead facts. Libraries, on the other hand, are full of them.

I'm not trying to cut myself off from the rest of the culture by not licensing.

A lot of what the 'Culture' is about is a reaction to all the science fiction I was reading in my very early teens.

Look, I've always said from the word go many years ago that I felt the whole bonus culture, they need to think very carefully about being detached from the rest of the British public.

We must start understanding other cultures, such as the Aboriginal culture. They have a harmony with the Earth and from that harmony has grown a certain spirituality.

In my culture we just say f**k off.

You had bands like D.O.A., or Black Flag, and a whole network opened up to trailblazer a counter culture movement. I'm more interested in the less sensational type of stories.

Sigmund Freud was a half baked Viennese quack. Our literature, culture, and the films of Woody Allen would be better today if Freud had never written a word.

Abolitionism did not find positive response in Africa as it did in Western societies and cultures.

I think rap music is the sole reason for a lot of black acceptance in pop culture; because the music is very popular, it gets our image out in other ways than in movies.

If you really think back to the culture or just black America before rap music took off, New York could have been Paris.

Well, I am very happy that I was able to play a part in bringing music from the streets onto the radio and into modern culture, I worked very hard and always believed in the sounds I was creating.

Everyone who raps isn't hip-hop. To be hip-hop, you've got to know the culture. You got to know the history.

Hip-hop is a competition culture. It's based around, "My DJ is better than you. My graffiti artist is better than you."

We musicians play in Time and with Time, but sometimes it is Time that plays with us. One day, unpredictably, the evolution of culture makes real an oeuvre which has lain in obscurity.

A depraved culture supports a depraved politics and vice versa.

Mistaking Palestinian military weakness for moral innocence seems to further amplify the inattention of journalists to the culture of lies.

I think [Ecstasy] was a really good stab. It wasn't my strongest book or my strongest material, but they wanted to make a kinda "rave culture" movie.

I think that a lot of people on the left are gonna get tired of fighting gun laws, so they're gonna embrace gun culture. I think when that happens, you've got serious, serious trouble.

Writing is about culture and should be about everything. That's what makes it what it is.

thanks to my friends for their care in my breeding, Who taught me betimes to love working and reading.

Food is a big part of my culture, so everyone knows how to cook. When I came to America and asked a babysitter to softboil an egg for my son and she didn't know how, I was shocked.

Universal deities ... never seem to smile. Not in any culture. What's the point of having omnipotence if you don't enjoy it?

Culture drives great results.

Every one's abilities may be increased or strengthened by a kind of culture.

The great poem and the deep theorem are new to every reader, and yet are his own experiences, because he himself recreates them.

I have kind of an existential crisis. I'm in my late 20s, I get excited by contemporary young culture, but at the same time, I don't want to be the 40-year-old DJ in the club.

It's always hard to talk about the culture that you are from, especially with Islam, it is a very sensitive subject and I don't want to be seen to be adding to the problems of Islam and the west.

Blues, rock and hip hop are more about a lifestyle and culture than notes on a page.

It's very funny, American society: White culture can do all sorts of things and get away with it, but the minute a black person does it, it's interpreted in some way.

When once I got to America I fell in love with hippie culture, and I've always wanted to live in the country and grow organic vegetables.

To all our means of culture is added the powerful incentive to personal ambition, no post of honor is so high but the poorest may hope to reach it.

I hope we can all overcome any differences of culture, race, and language.

Even where there is talent, culture, knowledge, if there is not earnestness, it does not go to the root of things.

The whole culture is under terrible pressure and fraught with worry. It's hard to get out of that box. That's the dominant situation all over the world.