Culture Quotes

I appear to be drawn to iconic characters and what they reflect back to our cultures.

People never talked about my music. They just counted how many knickers were on stage.

When I was writing 'The Abstinence Teacher,' I really tried to immerse myself in contemporary American evangelical culture.

The dominant culture in most big companies demands punishment for a mistake, no matter how useful, small, invisible.

Without exception, the dominance and coherence of culture proved to be an essential quality of the excellent companies.

When a culture is being dumbed down as effectively as ours is, its narrative arts (literature, film, theatre) seem to vacillate between the brutal and the bland, sometimes in the same work.

I think this whole division between the genres has more to do with marketing than anything else. It's terrible for the culture of music.

It's terrible for the culture of music. Like anything that is purely economic, it ignores the most important component.

I used to joke for years that I was a black man. I adopted the black culture, the black race. I married a black woman, and I had black kids. I always considered myself a 'brother.'

The bible is not a religious experience for me. This book bundles together the entire culture of Judaism: our language, our history, our geography. God is merely a byproduct of the bible.

The first time I went to Mexico, it was really difficult. Number one is the language, I didn't know any Spanish language. Of course, the culture itself. Very different from where I grew up.

On kissing Marilyn Monroe: It's like kissing Hitler.

The fundamental keys to the culture of any organization can only be achieved when everyone is on the same page.

Other men look to him as someone to emulate. His church calls on him for strength and leadership. He is a preserver of culture and a champion of society to keep out evil and usher in good.

The demise of our community and culture is the fault of sissified men who have been overly influenced by women.

Being Indian is not blood as much as it is culture.

What’s the best way to build a brand for the long term? In a word: culture.

We decided that if we get the culture right, most of the stuff, like building a brand around delivering the very best customer service, will just take care of itself.

Your brand is your culture.

The brand is just a lagging indicator of a company's culture.

This was a time frame when dance music and clubs were having a real impact on culture, and it had an impact on me.

Education and prevention are not enough when there is a culture of fraud.

When it comes to engaging and influencing culture, too many Christians think too highly of political activism.

I have always felt one of the things dance should do - its business being so clearly physical - is challenge the culture's gender stereotypes.

The disasteris not the money, although the money will be missed. The disaster is the disrespect--this belief that the arts are dispensable, that they're not critical to a culture's existence.

If western culture is shown to be rich it is because, even before the Enlightenment, it has tried to "dissolve" harmful simplifications through inquiry and the critical mind.

All cultures have been mingled forever.

Our culture in India is not a culture where we grudge each other.

There are cultures that produce different kinds of attitudes, whether it's religion, fatalism, sense of fear, repression, the culture of God and the police minimizes confidence in people.

I think American audiences like gangster movies. It's part of the culture.

Feminism gave me a way to see myself in culture, in society, in history, and that was very important.

I don't have space to enter into the examples or the history of this, so I'm left with having to make the bold statement that culture is extinct.

I believe it is no secret that I like Japan very much - Japanese culture, sport, including judo, but it will not offend anyone if I say that I like Russia even more.

Russia itself is a European country, and not just because our major political and economic centres are in Europe, but because Russian culture is primarily European culture.

Culture is not just an ornament; it is the expression of a nation's character, and at the same time it is a powerful instrument to mould character. The end of culture is right living.

The value of culture is its effect on character. It avails nothing unless it ennobles and strengthens that. Its use is for life. Its aim is not beauty but goodness.

On paper I would be a rather bold individual in our culture.

Culture defines who we are and how we see ourselves. A new attitude toward nature provides space for a new attitude toward culture and the role it plays in sustainable development

We have an education and business culture that tends to reward quick factual answers over imaginative inquiry. Questioning isn’t encouraged - it is barely tolerated.

The one thing I always loved about Michael Jackson: he had fun records, but he's also going to make some important statement with the music as well. He's not going to forsake the culture.

One hundred percent of the time, no plea bargain, no bail, you're going to the penitentiary - that will change the atmosphere in this culture of violence the president talks about.

The good of the whole of Creation, the world and all its creatures together, is never a consideration because it is never thought of; our culture now simply lacks the means for thinking of it.

The role of culture is that it's the form through which we as a society reflect on who we are, where we've been, where we hope to be.

I'm not into the culture of complaint. I roll up my sleeves and somehow I get it together.

Removing religion from the womb of culture has become the practiced virtue of the ACLU over the past several decades.

The writer in America isn't part of the culture of this country. He's like a fine dog. People like him around, but he's of no use.

There's violence in my culture [from America's South].

What we need is a critique of visual culture that is alert to the power of images for good and evil and that is capable of discriminating the variety and historical specificity of their uses.

Real culture lives by sympathies and admirations, not by dislikes and disdains; under all misleading wrappings it pounces unerringly upon the human core.

Our culture is teleological-it presumes purposive development and a conclusion.