Culture Quotes

Also she went in for culture, which gave her a certain moral authority. It wouldn't now; but people believed, then, that culture could make you better - a better person. They believed it could uplift you, or the women believed it. They hadn't yet seen Hitler at the opera house.

~ Margaret Atwood

Humankind, which discovers its capacity to transform and in a certain sense create the world through its own work, forgets that this is always based on God's prior and original gift of things that are. People think that they can make arbitrary use of the earth, subjecting it without restraint to their wills, as though the earth did not have its own requisites and a prior God-given purpose, which human beings can indeed develop but must not betray.

~ John Paul Ii

Photographing a culture in the here and now often means photographing the intersection of the present with the past.

~ David Duchemin

Starting at life's cryptogram, we either see His name unmistakably resplendent or we see the confusion of religions with no single message, just garbled beliefs that plague our existence, each justified by the voice of culture.

~ Ravi Zacharias

Great philosophers become immortal - they make undeniable impacts on culture.

~ Criss Jami

Criminologists have documented that the amount of coverage a crime victim receives affects how much attention police devote to the case and the willingness of prosecutors to accept plea bargains.

~ Barry Glassner

Curiously, only in sports do we agree to eschew technological advances, making rules, for example, to limit the power potential of baseball bats. We understand that technology will ruin our games, but we do not understand that it can also ruin cultures.

~ Gene Logsdon

Cultures aren’t so much planned as they evolve from that early set of people.

~ Jeff Bezos

Another lesson to file away about Scotland: insulting other people in a childish manner was the national pastime.

~ Molly Ringle

By “the Permanent Things” [T. S. Eliot] meant those elements in the human condition that give us our nature, without which we are as the beasts that perish. They work upon us all in the sense that both they and we are bound up in that continuity of belief and institution called the great mysterious incorporation of the human race.

~ Russell Kirk

We have been trained by a culture of violence and we are all agents of passive violence.

~ Bryant Mcgill

We all know there is something wrong with our culture, the state of our world, and with ourselves.

~ Bryant Mcgill

The inherent prejudice in unnaturally-produced nationalism causes a form of cultural blindness, which prevents us from seeing the obvious ways we could co-exist in the world as a co-operative human family.

~ Bryant Mcgill

Modern American culture dictated the importance of touching the hand of someone you’ve just met, however counterintuitive it seemed. Why would he want to touch someone he didn’t know?

~ Courtney Kirchoff

Do I have any recommendations for a Sadiri boys' night out? I shrugged, smiled, and allowed myself a laugh. I can come up with somet

~ Karen Lord

The time you save is just what makes the difference between trivia and culture.

~ James Herron

It's the only way anything will change. Because we are both mother and child, cause and effect, villain and victim

~ Jason Najum

So this needs to be said, and so I will try to say it

~ Jason Najum

Our culture tries to convince us on just about every front that more is better. More is a sign of wealth, luxury, power. Gone are the days when meals were moments of connection and conversation; now it’s all about consumption and calories.

~ Mary Deturris Poust

Self-governing cultures both inspire alignment and eject elements that don't fit in.

~ Dov Seidman

Sick cultures show a complex of symptoms such as you have named...but a dying culture invariably exhibits personal rudeness. Bad manners. Lack of consideration for others in minor matters. A loss of politeness, of gentle manners, is more significant than is a riot.

~ Robert A. Heinlein

To know your way round a library is to master the whole of culture, i.e. the whole world.

~ Sophie Divry

I lean back and tilt my head so all I see are the clouds in the sky. I'm looking back inside my head with my eyes wide open. I still don't know where I'm going; I decided I'm not crazy or alien. It's just that I'm more like one of those kids they find in remote jungles or forests []. A wolf child. And they've dragged me into this fucking schizo-culture, snarling and spitting and walking around on curled knuckles.

~ David Wojnarowicz

The overriding reason why we should take other people's cultures seriously is because God has taken ours seriously.

~ John R.w. Stott

You get what you expect and you deserve what you tolerate.

~ Mark Graban

In WASP families, if you don't get along with someone, you have as little to do with them as possible. In Jewish families, you move next door, to make them as miserable as possible.

~ Doreen Orion

Art is the bridge across the gap between peoples and cultures. Writing is one of the arts that can help link people.

~ Charles Ray

...Food serves two parallel purposes: it nourishes and it helps you remember. Eating and storytelling are inseparable—the saltwater is also tears; the honey not only tastes sweet, but makes us think of sweetness; the matzo is the bread of our affliction.

~ Jonathan Safran Foer

When we finally achieve the full right of participation in American life, what we make of it will depend upon our sense of cultural values, and our creative use of freedom, not upon our racial identification. I see no reason why the heritage of world culture—which represents a continuum—should be confused with the notion of race. Japan erected a highly efficient modern technology upon a religious culture which viewed the Emperor as a god. The Germany which produced Beethoven and Hegel and Mann turned its science and technology to the monstrous task of genocide; one hopes that when what are known as the “Negro” societies are in full possession of the world’s knowledge and in control of their destinies, they will bring to an end all those savageries which for centuries have been committed in the name of race. From what we are now witnessing in certain parts of the world today, however, there is no guarantee that simply being non-white offers any guarantee of this. The demands of state policy are apt to be more influential than morality. I would like to see a qualified Negro as President of the United States. But I suspect that even if this were today possible, the necessities of the office would shape his actions far more than his racial identity.

~ Ralph Ellison

Seattle is for people who love culture, but refuse to sacrifice their wild nature to attain it.

~ Kimberly Kinrade

Conformity is a problem for many small groups. Members put a higher priority on cohesion than on coming up with a well-reasoned choice. They pressure dissenters, shield themselves from negative feedback, keep silent when they disagree ...

~ Craig E. Johnson

Strategy and culture should have breakfast together.

~ Max Mckeown

I have come to the conclusion that just as the Japanese live to work, Asians live to eat.

~ Anastacia Oaikhena

Japan is the first nation in the world to accord 'comic books'--originally a 'humorous' form of entertainment mainly for young people--nearly the same social status as novels and films.

~ Frederik L. Schodt

Everyone over 50 in America feels like a refugee. In the Old America there were a lot of bad parents. There always are, because parenting is hard. Inadequate parents could say, 'Go outside and play in the culture,' and the culture -- relatively innocent, and boring -- could be more or less trusted to bring the kids up. Grown ups now know that you can't send the kids out to play in the culture, because the culture will leave them distorted and disturbed.

~ Peggy Noonan

Every artifact of human culture is a positive response to God's general revelation and simultaneously a rebellious assertion against His sovereign rule over us.

~ Timothy J. Keller

Our own attitude is that we are charged with discovering the best way of doing everything.

~ Mark Graban

Rebellion is all we'll be talking about. Love is revolution, a kind of coup d'état and cultural reprogramming in its own little way.

~ The Harvard Lampoon

The epitome of culture is the search for truth, or at least a reasonable approximation of reality, most notably the need to know ourselves and the world around us.

~ Eric Chaisson

The truths embodied in historical stories are thus not absolute or universal, but relative to the cultural context in which they are made.

~ Richard Handler