Culture Quotes · Page 153

Your culture is your limit; if you can't go beyond it, you will remain as a frog of your little lake!

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

For me, what makes life enjoyable is having a shared culture and shared references.

— Michael Sheen

Our culture says that ruthless competition is the key to success. Jesus says that ruthless compassion is the purpose of our journey.

— Brennan Manning

Culture is on the horns of this dilemma: if profound and noble it must remain rare, if common it must become mean.

— George Santayana

When the dominant images of a culture are anticipatory, they "lead" social development and provide direction for social change.

— Fred Polak

Progress stems from education, culture, freedom and equality. Without these fundamentals, mankind will flounder.

— Matt Chandler

Technical problems can be remediated. A dishonest corporate culture is much harder to fix.

— Bruce Schneier

Having a tradition is a great thing to work within, and maybe today [it] is the only way to really land musically…

— Alan Menken

The visual power of the phonetic alphabet is the translate other languages into itself is part of its power to invade right…

— Marshall McLuhan

It's difficult sometimes when you have somebody who is of a different culture trying to make light of something that is maybe…

— Michael Chang

How can we expect our students to become bold and fearless in thought and action if we encase them in sentimental shrines…

— Walter Gropius

Growing up in Southern California, it's all car culture. When I was a kid, I knew every single model of every single…

— Cheech Marin

... a phallocentric culture is more likely to begin its censorship purges with books on pelvic self-examination for women or bookscontaining lyrical…

— Robin Morgan

The Internet gives us everything and forces us to filter it not by the workings of culture, but with our own brains.…

— Umberto Eco

There's just no - nothing like this country, which is the only, really, multiracial country that's tried to share in a common…

— Victor Davis Hanson

What I discerned in the U.S. was a convergence of poetic voices coming from many different rents in the social fabric, many…

— Adrienne Rich

“Foreign behavior? What the fuck are you talking about? Foreign behavior? Have you read Things Fall Apart? Ifemulu asked, wishing she had…

— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

As we move toward the pluralist commonwealth, economic interventions that stabilize communities - for instance by localizing the flows of goods and…

— Gar Alperovitz

As a teenager, I was always this strange mixture of kind of vice-captain of the rugby team and sensitive artist type the…

— Mark Haddon

I'm such a bookworm, and I'm such a people-watcher. It took the Internet a while to catch on in Ireland, because the…

— Patton Oswalt

I never experimented with the hoddu like I wanted to do. Like on the song "Allah Addu," the hoddu and the voice…

— Baaba Maal

When you talk about "white privilege", you're talking about something systemic. When you're talking about "black privilege" it's something spiritual because we…

— Charlamagne Tha God

The 'civil rights' revolutionary groups are a case in point. Their goal is not equality but power. The background of Negro culture…

— R.J. Rushdoony

Once Indians become more visible in pop culture and thus more humanized, then it actually chips away at discrimination. Especially after 9/11,…

— Himanshu Suri

The gospel always comes to people in cultural robes. There is no such thing as a ‘pure’ gospel, isolated from culture

— David J

I would say there's always a movement of music and fashion in youth culture - every decade inspires the new one.

— Maripol

Here's the thing about earnestness. Our culture discounts it; but people are yearning for it.

— Jeffrey Zaslow

They're lacking culture in Hollywood. That gives me a big up, right? I know something about pop culture.

— Russell Simmons

We still have a lot of work to do in American culture. More open-mindedness is happening - in some cases rapidly, in…

— Mara Brock Akil

It's a matter of time; you adapt to the different culture and different way of life. Human beings are adaptable.

— Olivier Martinez

There's too much democracy in the culture, not enough in the society.

— Fran Lebowitz

There are brands out there in the world that have an incredible influence on the culture. Numerous ones are badly done.

— Stefan Sagmeister

NPR allowed me to treat sports seriously, as another branch on the tree of culture.

— Frank Deford

“Pakistan is merely another manifestation of a cultural unit demanding freedom for the growth of its own distinctive culture.”

— B.R. Ambedkar

Culture is one of the two or three most complicated words in the English language.

— Raymond Williams

Hip Hop will always have a lane of its own, for those that appreciate the culture.

— Iceberg Slim

I think that's what made rap such a stable footprint in culture, that it's so honest.

— Russell Simmons

Haiti is not a world aside, a world apart. Culture and imaginations have always been part of our rebirth.

— Raoul Peck

Film is our literature, so we should tell stories that are apropos of our culture, in that we can learn something about…

— David Strathairn

Happy nations have no history. History is the study of mankind's misfortune.

— Raymond Queneau