Culture Quotes · Page 121

The splendors of earth do not simply lie in their roles as human resources, supports of culture, or stimulators of experience.

— Holmes Rolston III

The moment you give up your principles, and your values, you are dead, your culture is dead, your civilization is dead. Period.

— Oriana Fallaci

When the state cannot raise people as scientists, it raises people as martyrs.

— Ilkin Santak

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

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

— Will Mancini

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

— David Gerrold

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

— James Murphy

I have never denied my background or my culture. I have taught my child to embrace her Mexican heritage, to love my…

— Salma Hayek

Integrated coastal zone management procedures involving concurrent attention to both the landward and seaward site of the ocean and to coastal forestry…

— M. S. Swaminathan

It seems to me that many writers, by virtue of environments of culture, art and education, slip into writing because of their…

— Robert E. Howard

The Vikings certainly didn't write anything about themselves; it was not a literate, but rather a pagan, culture. So what we get…

— Michael Hirst

There's little question that short stories, like poetry, don't get the respect they deserve in the culture - but what can you…

— Junot Diaz

We live in a world where there's a culture of fear, where some leaders have a strong pull on people, which is…

— Andy Muschietti

If people are eating mostly pickles after many generations, where did that come from? It's reflective of history, often a painful history.…

— Anthony Bourdain

My sister is dying for us to do 'Amazing Race' together. I would do it because we're very compatible. We've traveled the…

— Julie Chen

The character structure of modern man, who reproduces a six-thousand-year-old patriarchal authoritarian culture is typified by characterological armoring against his inner nature…

— Wilhelm Reich

The Internet, too, has strong attributes of a public good, and has undermined the “private good” attributes of old media. Internet service…

— Robert Waterman McChesney

I felt that a lot of Viking culture had been caricatured and misconstrued. After all, they were far more democratic than the…

— Michael Hirst

Winston was a bit of a challenge, all right, from a lot of different perspectives. It wasn't just the culture or the…

— Brendan Gleeson

I think the culture of the feminine needs to be reinvigorated and women need to build a culture that is connected all…

— Sheila Kelley

I wanted to visit the Capitol of our country, the center of our great civilization that stands like the sun in the…

— Marietta Holley

Now social media is a centerpiece of our lives. It can be a useful tool for connection and communication. It can ease…

— Melania Trump

The message that 'love' will solve all of our problems is repeated incessantly in contemporary culture - like a philosophical tom tom.…

— Quentin Crisp

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

— Mariska Hargitay

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

— Johnny Colt

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

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

— Cher Lloyd

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

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

Places like India can give you a real culture shock because of the poverty you see, and it brings you up sharply.

— Terry Wogan