Culture Quotes

I wouldn't be surprised if some day, they put the Simpsons in the Smithsonian. It's become part of our culture, those characters.

There's a lot of funding of the media and film in particular, literary publishing gets recognized as culture. I think fashion should too.

There are lots of stories about my culture that I think bring a whole other perspective to who we are and where we have been and how we got here that I think need to be done.

The hallmark of the Renaissance was its holistic quality as all fields of art, engineering, science and culture shared the same exciting spirit and many of the same intellectual principles.

It's a foolish culture that entrusts its food supply to simpletons.

If New Vegas foretells something about America's future, then the culture wars are all but over, and culture lost.

Culture means control over nature.

If the world does improve on the whole, yet youth must always begin anew, and go through the stages of culture from the beginning.

Even though the world as a whole progresses, youth must always start again from the beginning, and as individuals go through the epochs of the world's culture.

We live in a dominant culture of ceaseless Departure and Progress that has so far lasted two or three centuries.

Don’t tell them what you’re going to do - that’s vision. Do what you are going to do – that’s culture.

The belief in a Divine education, open to each man and to all men, takes up into itself all that is true in the end proposed by culture, supplements, and perfects it.

Democracy means the belief that humanistic culture should prevail.

The struggle for democracy has to be maintained on as many fronts as culture has aspects: political, economic, international, educational, scientific and artistic, religious.

My father combined many of the elements that were feared in the culture, but also he was a warm figure, a figure we needed. We depended on him to give us a little bit of strength and courage.

I have real fears for Cuba based on the South American experience. Where you have had such a stern regime, as Fidel's [Castro], there is no culture of politics.

I'm interested in Internet cultures. I'm interested in what the teenagers who drive the Internet culture are passionate about. I follow their lead - they go to tumblr, I go to tumblr.

I think in American culture, we put value on economic success but tell people you don't have to be economically successful to be happy.

Everybody who was involved in that culture [Wells Fargo] should be held accountable.

I don't know the extent to which they do business [ in Wells Fargo]. I just want to see how this thing continues to unfold and if they have a legitimately major change in their culture.

That one never need to look beyond the love of money for explanation of human behavior is one of the most jealously guarded simplification of our culture.

I detest literature. I abominate the theatre. I have a horror of culture. I am only interested in magic!

Culture makes the whole world our dwelling place; our palace in which we take our ease and find ourselves at one with all things.

The mathematics of rhythm are universal. They don't belong to any particular culture.

With Lean Six Sigma, the tools are the easy part, changing organizational culture is the hard part.

If the culture you have is radically different from an 'experiment and take-risk' culture, then you have a big change you going to have to make - and no little gimmicks are going to do it for you.

I'm trying to trick people into thinking about the unthinkable by using pop culture images.

Dinner theater is anti-culture.

And finally comes culture, which is entertainment, relaxation, transport out of the pain of living.

A stationary condition of capital and population implies no stationary state of human improvement. There could be as much scope as ever for all kinds of mental culture, and moral and social progress.

I explored rock culture and what the guitar can do though people like Jimmy Page and John McLaughlin, and the music moves away from pop.

When I got near teen age, I was so happy with my friends and the African American culture that I couldn't imagine not being part of it.

I'm not suggesting our music is the only music, but I am suggesting that there are certain elements in America's culture that are so precious that it would be a shame for them to go down the drain.

I want to create things while I have time on Earth, and the art of costume and culture has always inspired me.

Negative people often tend to create negative cultures whereas positive corporate cultures are created by positive people.

Americans have an extraordinary love-hate relationship with the rich culture they've created. They buy, watch and read it even as they ban, block and condemn it.

The challenge is the culture. You have to have a vision for the BBC-it can't merely be that it's big and has a place in the market.

I believe prayer for our nation has never been more important as we witness an accelerating anti-Christian fervor in the so-called mainstream of our culture.

I'm not too concerned what happens to my books after I'm dead. But I am very concerned by what's going on with the culture of reading and writing nowadays.

I'm living in the heart of gun culture, but I'm not a gun guy. I didn't grow up with them; I was never a hunter; my dad was never a hunter.

A culture in which guilt is automatically assumed to be neurotic and unhealthy has devised a remarkably clever way of protecting its self-interest.

Food is not just what we put in our mouths to fill up; it is culture and identity. Reason plays some role in our decisions about food, but it's rarely driving the car.

Food is not rational. Food is culture, habit, and identity.

Our relationship to the environment matters, our relationship to animals matters, and our relationship to culture matters.

What I think is really interesting is to look at the culture of disruption and of world-changing in terms of what [Buckminster] Fuller was doing and to draw the contrast more than the similarity.

The state is the nursing mother of human culture.

Music belongs to everybody. Having a little clique of the industry tell us what our culture is... I don't think that's healthy. And the Internet is helping us get away from that.

Sales-driven cultures can really differentiate you from the majority of the competition.

I know about hip-hop culture, whether it's graffiti writing or DJ-ing or being an MC.

I really like to travel when I write. Something about seeing new things and being in new cultures and environments provokes new thoughts in your head.