Culture Quotes · Page 107

I'm interested in the history of ideas and how these ideas take on flesh and influence culture, and the church.

— Kevin Vanhoozer

The customs and fashions of men change like leaves on the bough, some of which go and others come.

— Dante Alighieri

Culture is invited to the table usually only as raw material that needs no analysis.

— Elliott Colla

I'm content to stand on tradition. I'm even more content to wipe my feet on it.

— Aaron Allston

In this land of the Ganga (Varanasi), there was education of culture. But, more importantly, there was a culture of education.

— Narendra Modi

I'm a pop victim. I love pop music; I love pop culture. I love Olivia Newton-John.

— RuPaul

The Jews are trying to destroy all other cultures...as a survival mechanism...the only Nazi country in the world is Israel.

— David Duke

The United States - and Vermont in particular - has a history of welcoming people of all cultures and backgrounds.

— Phil Scott

“Cookbooks are almost a substitution for a lost sense of culture. People want some other life than the one they're living, so…

— Anonymous

“When I joined the military it was illegal to be homosexual, then it became optional, and now it's legal. I'm getting out…

— USMC Sgt. Harry Berres

The trick of making movies in this culture is how to not give up everything that makes them worthwhile in order to…

— Alex Winter

A visionary is someone who sees the future with both insight and foresight: Insight into the deeper causes and meaning of events…

— Corinne McLaughlin

I think there are only three things that America will be known for 2,000 years from now when they study this civilization:…

— Gerald Early

Sporting culture is needed where marks are given to students for sports in schools, jobs are assured for sportsperson, and sponsors are…

— Gagan Narang

They would say well there's always been wars, men have always beaten women. But it isn't true in all cultures. It doesn't…

— Gloria Steinem

In the first speech I delivered as health secretary, I made one thing perfectly clear: we need a cultural shift in the…

— Andrew Lansley

It's kind of interesting and sick that the intellectual culture called the 1960s, "time of troubles," a dangerous period in which a…

— Noam Chomsky

The major adventure is to claim your authentic, true being, which is not culturally given to you. The culture will not explain…

— Terence McKenna

There's quite obviously the desire to open the rule sets that allow for inclusion or disclusion. I think that my hope would…

— Kehinde Wiley

Even though you'll see gnocchi or linguine everywhere in some of the regions of Italy, each of those chefs has their own…

— Mario Batali

“...All of these writings could be reduced to mere “thought-provoking content,” for the system devours everything in its path like a never-satisfied…

— Sov8840

The Maori culture is different than our culture where we're most likely to introduce ourselves by email or fax and we conduct…

— Niki Caro

The church has lost her testimony. She has no longer anything to say to the world. Her once robust shout of assurance…

— Aiden Wilson Tozer

Where it is the majority religion, Islam does not recognize religious freedom, at least not as we understand it. Islam is a…

— Walter Kasper

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

— Kimberly Kinrade

Charity is one of those remarkable words that helps to identify the fault lines of a culture.

— Janet Poppendieck

I bet one legend that keeps recurring throughout history, in every culture, is the story of Popeye

— Jack Handey

I think cross-cultural dialogue is something that has hugely impacted the richness of the culture of our world.

— Anoushka Shankar

I love learning about all the cultures around the world, and I also love sharing my own.

— Jackson Wang

In the West, we have been withdrawing from our tradition-, religion-, and even nation-centred cultures.

— Jordan Peterson

Pop culture is a huge strategy for WWE: our storylines are reflective of what's happening in the world and what's popular.

— Stephanie McMahon

Reject the basic assumptions of civilization, especially the importance of material possessions.

— Chuck Palahniuk

We learn simply by the exposure of living, and what we learn most natively is the tradition in which we live.

— David P. Gardner

The culture industry not so much adapts to the reactions of its customers as it counterfeits them.

— Theodor Adorno

Civilization is the order and freedom is promoting cultural activity.

— Will Durant

It's an old ploy of the bourgeoisie. They keep a standing 'art' to defend their collapsing culture.

— George Grosz

I don't think that art, if it's isolated and specialized, can really create culture. It needs a cult.

— Ernst Fuchs

Im Jewish and Italian, and I lucked out and got the nose of both cultures.

— Chelsea Peretti

“It doesn't matter what they take away from you, they can never take the culture you have in your head. [Alfons Lasker,…

— Kate Kennedy

Ours is a youth culture, and like a golf tournament, we honor only low scores.

— Bill Cosby