Culture Quotes · Page 118

The distinctions separating the social classes are false; in the last analysis they rest on force.

— Albert Einstein

Latin American culture is conservative, and the rural areas are tremendously conservative. I don't believe that's just a Chilean thing.

— Sebastian Lelio

Think how much better it is to criticize conventional customs if you yourself live up to them, scrupulously.

— Sinclair Lewis

Professional intellectuals are the voice of a culture and are, therefore, its leaders, its integrators and its bodyguards.

— Ayn Rand

Staying at Airbnb listings gives me the opportunity to truly understand and experience the local culture of the countries I visit.

— Joe Gebbia

To me India is a land of beauty and generosity, of traditional hospitality and the acceptance of many cultures.

— Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit

You like to think that you're bigger than your traditions and customs, but they form who you are.

— Morena Baccarin

My shows will always be inspired by hip hop culture and my upbringing within it.

— Doc Brown

The accumulation of small, optimistic acts produces quality in our culture and in your life. Our culture resonates in tense times to…

— Jennifer James

If I had not been coached well about how to deal with a culture and a set of values that were foreign…

— Kenneth Frazier

Divisions between culture is not this precious thing, it's just this dirty beehive with things moving around, creating accidents, and violence, and…

— Doug Aitken

I'm always uneasy with messages. I think if there is a message, it's about taking control of your life. Not becoming a…

— Neil Tennant

In the emerging world of ethnic conflict and civilizational clash, Western belief in the universality of Western culture suffers three problems: it…

— Samuel P. Huntington

It’s trite to say that the world has gotten smaller in the age of globalization, but my travels have told me that…

— Norman Spinrad

I'm very optimistic because I think that the real strength of a nation like the United States comes from blending cultures. There's…

— Isabel Allende

English tradition debars from dinner-table conversation almost all topics that might interest the conversers and insists upon strict adherence to banalities.

— Elspeth Huxley

There is a cultural norm on the left of being afraid to declare victory, which is related to the binary of reform/revolution.…

— Cynthia Kauffman

I have degenerative bone disease and I walk with a cane. And when I wrote Six of Crows,' I went out on…

— Leigh Bardugo

Experience serves to prove that the worth and strength of a state depend far less upon the form of its institutions than…

— Samuel Smiles

Women have been driven mad, “gaslighted”, for centuries by the refutation of our experience and our instincts in a culture which validates…

— Adrienne Rich

We really wanted someone from the culture to sort of do that. And we heard about Taika [Waititi]. We saw his movie…

— Ron Clements

The disappearance of theology from the life of the Church, and the orchestration of that disappearance by some of its leaders, is…

— David F. Wells

One is hard pressed to think of universal customs that man has successfully established on earth. There is one, however, of which…

— Howard Whitley Eves

Although we've used the concept brand communities a couple of times, it's important to reiterate that communities aren't created, they are courted.…

— Henry Jenkins

“Violence is not just an emotion, it is a culture. Some suffer in it, some are born into it and others cannot…

— Isabella Poretsis

Hollywood, America's greatest modern contribution to world culture, is a business, a religion, an art form, and a state of mind.

— Camille Paglia

I don't have much knowledge about Indian culture, but I try to keep a tab of what's happening down here.

— Isa Guha

The only thing constant is change, we keep going through it not only in Las Vegas but in every part of our…

— Steve Lawrence

While her lips talked culture, her heart was planning to invite him to tea

— Anonymous

I sometimes wonder what those of us who are writers would become in a nonliterary culture - storytellers? Hermits?

— Rebecca Solnit

Some of the substance of English words, I just don't understand at all because the culture's so strange to me

— Chow Yun-Fat

World music is music from everywhere: music that creates bridges, music that unites hearts and cultures, music that brings peace.

— Jai Uttal

Chess is a part of culture and if a culture is declining then Chess too will decline

— Mikhail Botvinnik

I will go further, and assert that nature without culture can often do more to deserve praise than culture without nature.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

The love of Elizabeth Bennet and Mr Darcy is reliant on the restrictions of Regency culture, their passion is created by repression.

— Sara Pascoe

The rewards system is a powerful driver of behavior and therefore culture.

— Lou Gerstner

Nationality is the creative power of human culture, culture is the creative power of nationality.

— A. C. Cuza

Is there a sharper commentary on American culture and the world than The Simpsons?

— Anthony Bourdain

Popular culture is most powerful when it offers us a vision of how our society should look - or at least reproduces…

— Janet Mock

Unfortunately, most news writing is the product of a first draft culture.

— Michael Gartner