Culture Quotes

I believe that the faith heritage of this country is actually a very important part of America's culture.

As far as our culture of humiliation goes, what we need is a revolution. Public shaming as a blood sport has to stop.

I feel like being into the beat of your own drum has become too prominent in the culture.

A culture that holds people back should and can be changed.

Those who speak of our culture as dead or dying have a quarrel with life, and I think they cannot understand its terms, but must endlessly repeat the projection of their own desires.

All societies establish laws that become norms. Those norms create the environment that incubates society. So, when you implement the laws of God in society, they produce a culture of heaven.

Part of Christian belief is to find out what's true about Jesus and let that challenge our culture.

What culture worth the name would deny women the right to safe motherhood? What value system would send young people ignorant into the world, when a little knowledge might save their lives?

I don't think we spend enough time in reflection and introspection. We don't know who we are as individuals in this culture any more.

Women are mere "beauties" in men's culture so that culture can be kept male. When women in culture show character, they are not desirable, as opposed to the desirable, artless ingenue.

What are other women really thinking, feeling, experiencing, when they slip away from the gaze and culture of men?

It is well worth remembering that the customer is the most important factor in any business. If you don't think so, try getting along without him for a while.

Latin men love Latin women, it is part of the culture, we celebrate women in a very special way and I think that is present in my work. I do it by making them beautiful, sensual.

Our culture is our strength be it music, dance, poetry or anything, and these are very precious.

I don't look at sports as something which merely tones up the body. I look at it as a tool of education that stimulates the mind and brings in a culture of discipline.

I never examined my role in male culture, in hyper masculinity. I never examined it, nobody ever called me on it.

I have engaged in hyper-male culture, and I'm learning about it, and I'm learning how I can change and help young boys and young men change.

When even those who should be happy by any reasonable measure are also not happy, there's got to be a serious systemic problem in humanity's culture.

No one wants to die, and no one wants to die poor. These are the two fundamental truths that transcend culture, they transcend politics, they transcend economic cycles.

It's part of our pop culture to give animals human personalities and talents.

I don't want to die ... I don't want to die poor. Two great motivators in the history of human cultures.

No one is saying you're possessed by the devil anymore except the most ignorant of people in modern culture.

There's not much high and low culture any more: there's just mingling streams of art and what matters is whether it's good art or bad art.

The idea of taking what people call the 'entertainment culture' as a focus of study, including historical perspective, is not a bad idea.

The Arabic states have to be integrated into the Iraqi reconstruction. We need the help of the Arabic community, which understands its culture. Americans arrive, invade, occupy.

The civilised cultures are the most cruel. It's the same with education - often it breeds sadistic forms of cruelty.

Hip-hop is more than music, it's a culture. It's bigger than hit songs.

We're lucky to be in the middle of a TV renaissance. It's the healthiest storytelling medium in our culture.

One thing we forget about Hispanics is that they're family-unit-oriented as a culture. So it's not all wild Mexican gangs out there, as is rumored.

We realized that the world of popular culture had been creating the perfect candidate for many years: the female champion of the universe.

The frenzy of the little-girl culture is something very unique, and I can only say that because I was one. The obsession - I can't really explain it. Everything is heightened to the maximum.

Moving to London was a culture shock, but in a really good way. I'm more aware now, and I'm less trusting of people in the music industry.

What's called "liberal" in the intelectual culture means highly conformist to power, but mildly critical.

That's a large part of the source of the gun culture. You have to have a gun when you go into Starbucks, because who knows what's going to happen. It just doesn't happen in other countries.

Even in Japan, I don't think that the game culture is established. For example, my father will watch movies but games don't appear in his life at all, I think that that's sad.

Games are considered to be in the sub-culture category, coming under movies, coming under manga or comics or animation, especially in Japan.

Let's start doing new and different things that enable us all to grow as a film culture and a community in total.

I had an awful lot of my soul invested in Atari culture.

As Israel becomes like South Africa, it's increasingly becoming a pariah state, being excluded from culture at large.

Culture is worth a little risk.

Faced with the election of a Catholic, our culture is at stake.

When we were engaged in the problems of survival we had no time to have anything to do with culture.

We are not getting rid of carriers any time soon. This is both because of their utility and also because of their role in Navy culture and in the defense-industrial complex. It is an academic debate.

The more you read about and immerse in a culture, the more it comes alive, and the more textured and nuanced and detailed and unstereotypable it becomes.

It's overshadowed, the art. We're in a really argumentative, black-and-white-thinking culture right now. There's not a lot of time to take things in.

Women serve as guardians of culture, upholders of society.

New York is rich in culture, cuisine, and commerce.

I was raised in rural south Jersey, and there was no culture there. There was a small library, and that was it. There was nothing else.

Culture has always been more important than politics. Sometimes culture is a mirror that reflects what is; sometimes it's a search-light pointing the way to what will be.

There is only one curriculum, no matter what the method of education: what is basic and universal in human experience and practice, the underlying structure of culture.