Culture Quotes · Page 134

In shamanic cultures, sychronicities are recognized as signs that you are on the right path.

— Daniel Pinchbeck

Our relationship to the environment matters, our relationship to animals matters, and our relationship to culture matters.

— Jonathan Safran Foer

I think that winning the battle in Hollywood is a necessary condition to winning the culture war.

— Jason Jones

People are only mean when they're threatened, and that's what our culture does. That's what our economy does.

— Mitch Albom

If you want to change the culture, you will have to start by changing the organization.

— Mary Douglas

Everything I do is about Chinese culture. My dishes have to symbolize something because they taste better when people understand.

— Alvin Leung

What strip mining is to nature the art market has become to culture.

— Robert Hughes

A free culture is not a culture without property; it is not a culture in which artists don't get paid.

— Lawrence Lessig

Well, for one thing, the culture we have does not make people feel good about themselves. We're teaching the wrong things. And…

— Mitch Albom

You get a culture of entrepreneurship after you have successfully changed the accountability system so that people can use a better process.…

— Eric Ries

Gay culture is surviving and thriving. Some activists believe the recent rise in homophobic violence might be a gauge of the success…

— Lance Loud

We need to have a unified understanding of our national heritage without losing our personal distinctives. The closer that national heritage is…

— Tony Evans

The atheist realizes that there must not only be an acceptance of his right to hold his opinion, but that ultimately his…

— Madalyn Murray O'Hair

One of the things is challenging yourself to do a Rome show when everybody's done a Rome show. To find some aspect…

— Anthony Bourdain

Our culture places a very high premium on self-expression, but is relatively disinterested in producing "selves" that are worth expressing.

— Matthew Kelly

I was lucky enough to be exposed to film, art, literature, culture, and then told, 'Yes, you can do that, too.' It's…

— Todd Haynes

I am a Mexican. The United States lived seventy-five years with the one party system in Mexico - the PRI - without…

— Carlos Fuentes

Well, when you grow up in a family situation like in England, you're whole - we call it pub culture, and it…

— Jason Bonham

Cancel culture has always been an issue. I mean, if you look at the Book of Genesis, Cain canceled Abel. This has…

— Lauren Boebert

As I got older, my pops tried to keep me involved with the culture by telling me the stories of the conflict…

— Nipsey Hussle

I really want to make it more accessible to minorities because I think it's a whole other world out there that my…

— Brandin Cooks

Philosophers have very justly remarked that the only solid instruction is that which the pupil brings from his own depths; that the…

— Joseph Marie, baron de Gerando

Goodness has no opposite. Most of us consider goodness as the opposite of the bad or evil and so throughout history in…

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

“Where woman do not fit the Iron Maiden [societal expectations/assumptions about women's bodies], we are now being called monstrous, and the Iron…

— Naomi Wolf

DJ culture always made us aware that the best records were going to come from the small shops

— Chuck D

“Civilization is a thin veil over our savage selves, easily lifted by some for personal glorification.”

— Lilo Abernathy

Houses are built brick-by-brick. HOMEs are built word-by-word. Houses don't build themselves. So YOU must build your home.

— Anonymous

In Europe, there is so much tradition, and everyone has established ideas as to what art should be and what it has…

— Esa-Pekka Salonen

We're [New York] the world's second home, the place where every religion is practiced and every culture is celebrated.

— Michael Bloomberg

It was a culture shock at first, moving from Michigan to Mississippi. But it ended up being the best decision I ever…

— Devin Booker

Well, my husband is supportive of my work, like advocating for dialogue between cultures on YouTube.

— Queen Rania of Jordan

I'm with expanding in my culture, from the Dominican Republic all the way to Cape Verde. Please believe that.

— Ray J

The world does not need a war against 'terrorism', it needs a culture of peace based on human rights for all.

— Irene Khan

Our culture seems to believe that it's entertaining to teach women to be frightened.

— Kiki Smith

Does our culture have a need for violence? I don't know. I guess it's a personal thing.

— Lena Headey

In the dancehall world, we have crews and they battle. It's part of the entire culture surrounding dancehall.

— Kreesha Turner

Just immerse yourself in the culture of the music - it will open some doors for you.

— Joe Louis Walker

I look up to people like Michael Jackson because he set up pop culture.

— Ananya Birla

In black culture, you know, we used to go swing dancing. We used to go out to go dance and actually have…

— Goldlink

Each civilization has its own kind of pestilence and can control it only by reforming itself.

— Rene Dubos