Culture Quotes · Page 131

Civilization, to be worthy of the name, must afford other methods of settling human differences than those of blood letting.

— Ralph Chaplin

If Jesus were living in our culture, he would probably hang out in coffeehouses.

— Mark Batterson

My first goal as governor is to restore public trust in state government by changing the culture of state government.

— Sonny Perdue

China is a great country with a great culture, populated by fascinating, industrious and talented people.

— Vladimir Putin

There's a numbness in our culture to the continuing horrors of genocide.

— Anne Waldman

I like a walking culture; I need to be in a city where you can walk everywhere.

— Eddie Huang

There is no reason for amazement: surely one always knew that cultures decay, and life's end is death.

— Robinson Jeffers

The entire culture was organized for people who are happy. People who are miserable need reassurance that other people are miserable.

— Ira Glass

But don't think that it's a system or a culture or a state or a person that does the letting down. It's…

— Anthony Burgess

I was raised into the Romanian Orthodox culture by my parents, and most notably my mother, who is a profoundly religious and…

— Dominique Moceanu

The evangelical movement has become just a bit victimized by a success-oriented culture, wanting the church - like the corporation - to…

— Henri Nouwen

The Germanic invasions destroyed neither the Mediterranean unity of the ancient world, nor what may be regarded as the truly essential features…

— Henri Pirenne

English is big business and languages are dying as never before. Is there a connection? Is this another manifestation of McDonaldisation –…

— Patricia Ryan

We have to work extra hard, because we in America are very ethnocentric--we think our culture is superior. Why's that? It's because…

— Dick Couch

My parents kept the best aspects of the Asian culture, and they Americanized the family. My mother was a great example for…

— Andrea Jung

'Goodnight Moon' is a staple of any nursery bookshelf. So, too, are 'Harold and the Purple Crayon' and 'Madeline.' These books are…

— Rebecca Serle

The first step - especially for young people with energy and drive and talent, but not money - the first step to…

— Chuck Palahniuk

There are [in Hollywood] some endemic problems and some things that happen over and over again. There's the problem of representation of…

— Karina Longworth

The popes have spoken of human ecology, closely linked to environmental ecology. We are living in a time of crisis: we see…

— Pope Francis

This education has reduced us to a nation of morons; we were strangers to our own culture and camp followers of another…

— R.K. Narayan

While much of modern behavioral and social science treats individuals as autonomous agents, it is absolutely clear that the way we think…

— Richard R. Nelson

We're not in cultures which support learning; we're in cultures that give us the message consistently: "Don't mess up, don't make mistakes,…

— Walter Wriston

Overall do I believe exchange with other cultures is good, people going back and forth is good, trade is good. Yes, all…

— Rand Paul

America's gun culture demonstrates itself in the Wild West, Dirty Harry mentality of people who actually believe that if a number of…

— Bob Costas

Culture hides more than it reveals, and strangely enough what it hides, it hides most effectively from its own participants.

— Edward T. Hall

The overriding reason why we should take other people's cultures seriously is because God has taken ours seriously.

— John Stott

There is no privacy in our culture anymore, so I have to try and carve that out for myself, but I'm OK…

— Tim Howard

Teach your children gratefulness. Do all you can to deliver them from our culture's poisonous entitlement mentality.

— Randy Alcorn

To me, British fashion has a story. It has history, and I feel it's very much about our culture.

— Rita Ora

When you grow up as a minority in a majority culture, a lot of times, you're just trying to fit in.

— Hasan Minhaj

We live in a church culture that has a dangerous tendency to disconnect the grace of God from the glory of God.

— David Platt

People say I manipulate the media. Well, duh. We live in a media culture, so why on earth wouldn't I?

— Paul Watson

We want people to experience art and think about it. The art reflects our time, it is about our culture.

— David Elliott

“Culture has very much to do with the human spirit. What we find beautiful or entertaining or moving is rooted in our…

— Kenneth A. Myers

I believe I once considerably scandalized her by declaring that clear soup was a more important factor in life than a clear…

— Hector Hugh Munro

Teens today rule the world. The whole culture - movies, music - is pointed at young people. They have so 'much' power.

— James Franco

“The culture the leader creates impacts the feedback a leader receives.”

— Ron Edmondson

When a customer asks what no one else has ever asked, pay close attention.

— Ron Kaufman

“Whenever new knowledge of a transforming nature permeates the race, the standard of world culture rises.”

— Walter Russell

Ideas do not respect national frontiers, and this is especially so where language and other traditions are in common.

— John Kenneth Galbraith