Culture Quotes · Page 158

If the world does improve on the whole, yet youth must always begin anew, and go through the stages of culture from…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Purification in Shinto lifts the burden from the shoulders of the individual and washes it away.”

— Stuart D. B. Picken

It's core to Amazon's culture that we want to innovate and think big, and it's great to be at a place like…

— Roy Price

Almost always tradition is nothing but a record and a machine-made imitation of the habits that our ancestors created.

— Walter Lippmann

The most conventional customs cling to the table. Farmers who wouldn't drive a horse too hard expect pie three times a day.

— Ellen Swallow Richards

Even though I'm very Westernized as an individual and very Canadian, I guess I've lost some of my Chinese culture.

— Patrick Chan

I believe that the faith heritage of this country is actually a very important part of America's culture.

— Mitt Romney

My whole soul rebels against the idea that Hinduism and Islam represent two antagonistic cultures and doctrines.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Ballet was exactly what I was searching for, but my environment definitely made me the dancer and the person that I am…

— Misty Copeland

Popular culture is one of the sites where this struggle for and against a culture of the powerful is engaged: it is…

— Stuart Hall

There are not unfrequently substantial reasons underneath for customs that appear to us absurd; and if I were ever again to find…

— Charlotte Bronte

Holland was one of the first countries to adopt dance music into their culture, and we were the first ones to have…

— Armin van Buuren

In common with all Protestant or Jewish cultures, America was developed on the idea that your word is your bond. Otherwise, the…

— Orson Welles

I was immediately smitten with an attraction to this culture, not in the sense of high culture but of the basic way…

— Harry Mathews

In both business and personal life, I've always found that travel inspires me more than anything else I do. Evidence of the…

— Ivanka Trump

Randomness has an incredibly powerful place in our culture. If you think about it, you can see it driving the algorithms that…

— DJ Spooky

I was born into a Christian household, in a parsonage in fact, so I grew up in sort of a missionary atmosphere…

— Wole Soyinka

Such techniques, including meta-discursive stuff, self-reference, irony, black humor, cynicism, grotesquerie and shock, it would be safe to say that television or…

— David Foster Wallace

You have to have a fundamental change in the culture of policing, and who is the police person. How do they change?…

— Marian Wright Edelman

We grew up creating this whole world view for ourselves because it's not there in the culture. What am I? And I…

— Kate Bornstein

Anyone should be able to express themselves in any context. Obviously, there are arguments against appropriation, but it's one thing when someone…

— Christian Scott

Ebooks represent a shift from a culture of scarcity to a culture of abundance. In the past, publishing required a great deal…

— David Gerrold

Many teachers of the Sixties generation said "We will steal your children", and they did. A significant part of America has converted…

— Pat Buchanan

In creativity the way will be found for subject to pass into object, the identity of subject with object will be restored.…

— Nikolai Berdyaev

“Cultural intelligence is the “capability to function effectively across national, ethnic, and organizational cultures.”1”

— David Livermore

We live in a time of crisis in the secular culture and in the church with regard to the beautiful.

— R. C. Sproul

I would argue that the culture is not the frosting on the cake: the culture is the plate the cake sits on.

— Morgan Neville

Style is about the choices you make to create the aspects of civilization that you wish to uphold.

— David Bowie

We're in the age of the idea. The organization that can develop a culture of creativity and idea generation will be the…

— Kevin Roberts

Having come from a working-class family in the rural South, the fashion industry opened my eyes to culture, arts, and the world.

— Trish Goff

Proper history teaching is being crushed under the weight of play-based pedagogy which infantilises children, teachers and our culture.

— Michael Gove

I'm not trying to say I'm a big tough guy... I'm a typical American-waist deep in this violent culture.

— Henry Rollins

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

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

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

— Robinson Jeffers

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

— Eddie Huang

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

— Edward T. Hall