Culture Quotes · Page 102

You can't allow tradition to get in the way of innovation. There's a need to respect the past, but it's a mistake…

— Bob Iger

Civilization is a youth with a molotov cocktail in his hand. Culture is the Soviet tank or L.A. cop that guns him…

— Edward Abbey

We want a culture where it is unacceptable not to share what you know.

— John T. Chambers

It's nice to know there are some things in early 21st-century post-industrial culture that don't change very fast. I am one of…

— Utah Phillips

During the 1990s, luxury became something exclusive and elitist. I think fashion got lost. It forgot about craft and culture.

— Jonathan Anderson

“Customs are made for customary circumstances, and customary characters: and his circumstances or his character may be uncustomary.”

— John Stuart Mill

I think music is a great way of helping people to get to know a country's culture.

— Anitta

Growing up around people with the same culture as me made me a lot tougher.

— Cher Lloyd

In every single culture I encountered, there were always women who defied cultural norms to do what they believed was right for…

— Zainab Salbi

A national culture, if it is to flourish, should be a constellation of cultures, the constitutes of which, benefiting each other, benefit…

— T. S. Eliot

“As Anne Keala Kelly's portrait of two houseless Hawaiian women warriors that opens this collection reminds us, in no uncertain terms: an…

— Noelani Goodyear-Ka'opua

Coach Izzo has established a culture and an attitude of winning and I want to be part of that. He does a…

— Jaren Jackson, Jr

Instead of boiling up individuals into the species, I would draw a chalk circle round every individuality, and preach to it to…

— Jane Welsh Carlyle

We're honored - honored that we've been part of something that certainly, in terms of '80s pop culture in America, people have…

— Jim Kerr

You are told before coming to Europe that big teams here quite often rotate players. I respect this culture but it is…

— Paulinho

“The richness of every European language is a richness in ability to describe its own culture, represent its own world. When it…

— KAPUSCINSKI RYSZARD

Those who remember Washington's cold war culture in the 1980s will recall the shocked reactions to Reagan's intervention. People interested in foreign…

— Russell Baker

The opportunity here in the U.S. is so unique because we are so diverse, with so many different cultures living together. Christians,…

— Marcus Samuelsson

Hispanic gives us all one ultimate paternal cultural progenitor: Spain. The diverse cultures already on the American shores when the Europeans arrived,…

— Ana Castillo

I think bridges have a special meaning in our life. I think a book is a bridge. Any type of art is…

— Paulo Coelho

Besides language and music, it [mathematics] is one of the primary manifestations of the free creative power of the human mind, and…

— Hermann Weyl

In their infancy, startups need geniuses who fit their current tight-knit culture and will iterate quickly as they push towards an ambitious…

— Joe Lonsdale

I plan to see St. Louis as a global competitor. As an international trade hub, as an incubator of new companies, as…

— Francis G. Slay

If men can be made to understand that society, with its rigid codes and stratifications, is in its confused infancy rather than…

— Joost Meerloo

Whoever lives in whichever state should learn the culture of thestate and its language.

— Raj Thackeray

I ask all people of goodwill to help build a culture of encounter, solidarity and peace

— Pope Francis

A civilization in which there is not a continuous controversy about important issues is on the way to totalitarianism and death

— Anonymous

And we had our own laws. I mean, I wrote them. And we had our own customs, and traditions, and proprieties.

— James Stockdale

There is a fetishization of victimization in our culture. And I just am not interested in victimhood.

— Alan Ball

Ultimately, what any company does when it is successful is merely a lagging indicator of its existing culture.

— Satya Nadella

You can tell a lot about a civilization by the quality of the people found in its jails.

— David Gerrold

“In other words, nourishing internal culture must precede expanding outside influence. Real change is inside-out.”

— Will Mancini

I don't want to be subsumed into popular culture and played on the radio next to some garbage music.

— James Murphy

Seriously, American pop culture must be the most predominant force on the planet, next to pollution and poverty.

— Johnny Colt

Italian culture is so deeply soaked in an appreciation of the good things in life.

— Mariska Hargitay

India and Vietnam are old civilizations. We have ancient cultural and spiritual connections.

— Ram Nath Kovind

With homogenized culture, even if you feel frustrated, you'd have to write a Taylor Swift song to get heard.

— M.I.A

There’s a very comfortable techno-libertarian culture where you think you’re doing the right thing,

— Stewart Baker

Tradition and heritage are all dead people's baggage, stop carrying it. Move forward.

— Doug Stanhope

The culture is eating nature; it's overpowering storytelling. Movies are turning into games - it's abut the image, not nuance.

— Parker Posey