Culture Quotes · Page 117

I'd set out to Oman in search of luxury with culture and family-friendly adventure thrown in. And I found it.

— Fiona Bruce

I think there's a tremendous amount of unacknowledged hostility in American culture.

— Chris Jordan

Religious faith is an important aspect of American culture and a fact of American political life.

— John Rawls

Culture requires in the first place a certain balance of material and spiritual values.

— Johan Huizinga

“Alaska’s like two thousand miles away from anywhere cultured. No offense, Canada.”

— Meagan Macvie

It's important to get to know people, to get an idea of the culture of a club, and to understand how it…

— Hugo Lloris

The whole idea of civilization as an understandable narrative is a bit nuts. It's the most problematic of delusions.

— Carey Mercer

Having a hit is nice, having some success, but when you move popular culture, that's a high.

— Jimmy Iovine

I can't wait for the next fad though, and I predict it's going to be Pennsylvania dutch culture, very Amish. It's going…

— Janeane Garofalo

Our culture is just a series of checks and balances. The whole idea that we're in a battle between tyranny and freedom…

— Jon Stewart

“It's absurd to have a hard and fast rule about what one should read and what one shouldn't. More than half of…

— Oscar Wilde

I don't have space to enter into the examples or the history of this, so I'm left with having to make the…

— Vivienne Westwood

But the culture has failed, almost entirely, in inculcating internal controls on actions that have their origin in authority. For this reason,…

— Stanley Milgram

Why do we cling to bigotry? Because bigotry, plainly, is convenient. It is a near-effortless way to both elevate one's stature and…

— John Ridley

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

— Neil Postman

In using the English language to create an entirely new art form, the pioneers of Hip Hop created a vessel that grew…

— Jamaal Bowman

We will continue to address things, but in as much as I want to talk about politics as they are related to…

— Chris Hardwick

A civilization is only a way of life. A culture is the way of making that way of life beautiful. So culture…

— Frank Lloyd Wright

Our culture, therefore, must not omit the arming of the man. Let him hear in season, that he is born into the…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Through our own creative experience we came to know that the real tradition in art is not housed only in museums and…

— Lawren Harris

The 1970s was the decade of liberation, of anger at injustice and demands for recognition and rights. But over time, the demand…

— Michael Foley

Each culture has some knowledge. That's why I studied with Saj Dev, an Indian flute player. That's why I studied Stockhausen's music.…

— Yusef Lateef

“While much psychology emphasizes the familial causes of angst in humans, the cultural component carries as much weight, for culture is the…

— Clarissa Pinkola Estés

The definition of happiness being very emotion-oriented - the problem is that there's too many quick and dirty ways to chase that…

— Steven C. Hayes

As a child of West Texas, I identify with Hispanic culture every bit as much as I do North American culture.

— Tommy Lee Jones

When men die, they enter history. When statues die, they enter art. This botany of death is what we call culture.

— Chris Marker

We wanted to do a woman on a reality show because that's what's happening right now-it's part of our culture.

— Lisa Kudrow

We must see with our own eyes and not accept any laid-down tradition as if it had some magical power in it.

— Chogyam Trungpa

Adventurous reading allows one to escape a little from the provincialities of one's home culture and the blinders of one's narrow self.

— Michael Dirda

I remember seeing a stage version of Plato's 'Symposium' and being really moved because it was written by a man rather than…

— John Cameron Mitchell

I come from a farming culture, where we valued raw materials above all.

— Brunello Cucinelli

Of what value is a civilization that can't toast a piece of bread as ordered?

— Haruki Murakami

Under popular culture's obsession with a naive inclusion, everything is O.K.

— Stanley Crouch

Art is the response of the living to life. It is therefore the record left behind by civilization.

— John French Sloan

I'm a pop culture junkie. I'm a People magazine reader, an US Weekly subscriber; all of those celebrity magazines get my dollar.

— Laurie Foos

I do think film can change culture, in a way that reading a story in the New York Times does not.

— Julie Smolyansky

The multiculturalism movement must be unmasked for the fraud that it is. There are superior cultures, and ours is one of them.

— Mitt Romney

“The nature of your work does not have to be the culture of your team.”

— Janna Cachola

“The deal with multiculturalism is that the only culture you're allowed to disapprove of is your own.”

— Martin Amis

I really respect Hov's drive, as well as his whole career and what he's done for the culture.

— Fabolous