Culture Quotes · Page 174

The foundation of culture, as of character, is at last the moral sentiment.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

My working hypothesis is that stupidity in popular culture is a constant. Popular culture cannot get more stupid.

— P. J. O'Rourke

I'm not allowing my perspective to be dictated by the dominant culture.

— Holly Near

Creativity is putting your imagination to work, and it's produced the most extraordinary results in human culture.

— Ken Robinson

True wisdom is free of the dramas of culture or religion and should bring us only a sense of peace and happiness.

— Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche

In my parents' generation, rebellion was pop culture. It's not anymore.

— Shia LaBeouf

Our culture is obsessed with being busy, and I think it's crazy. I don't fill all my time.

— Frazey Ford

Thailand was a revelation to me; the landscapes, the culture, the food and the people.

— Fiona Bruce

I try to leave a light footprint. I'm involved with Global Green, which aims to educate people about sustainable building and the…

— Walton Goggins

“Throughout the history of our civilisation, two traditions, two opposed tendencies, have been in conflict: the Roman tradition and the popular tradition,…

— Pyotr Alexeyevich Kropotkin

When you tell a story you automatically talk about traditions, but they're never separate from the people, the human implications. You're talking…

— Gayl Jones

“Many of the gaps in my knowledge and understanding were simply limits of class and cultural background, not lack of aptitude or…

— Sonia Sotomayor

The culture now in television is that the presenter calls the financial and, increasingly, the creative shots. It is comparable to what…

— Terry Wogan

I think one of the reasons 'The Karate Kid' film has stood the test of time, aside from 'Get him a body…

— Ralph Macchio

Food is interesting to me because it's a way of understanding culture and societies and history. I would never write about food…

— Mark Kurlansky

We have forgotten that we have not come to an empty land to inherit it, but we have come to conquer a…

— Moshe Sharett

The Shambhala teachings are founded on the premise that there is basic human wisdom that can help to solve the world's problems.…

— Chogyam Trungpa

We usually forget that apart from making a living on this earth, human beings live in societies and these societies have cultures.…

— Tunku Abdul Rahman

Human beings are themselves considered consumer goods to be used and then discarded. We have created a "disposable" culture which is now…

— Pope Francis

Since the primary motive of the evil is disguise, one of the places evil people are most likely to be found is…

— Martin Buber

The destination of the soul: this is what I, led on by Nils Holgersson, came to seek in the literature of Western…

— Kenzaburo Oe

We are reviewing our experience to enable us to respond to the cultural challenge: to help countries, communities and individuals interpret universal…

— Thoraya Obaid

You want everything for your kids that you didn't have, but that that very desire can pollute and corrupt the good, basic…

— Todd Haynes

November is Native American Heritage month, and a good time to honor the legacy of our ancestors, but every day we should…

— Deb Haaland

United we stand and divided we fall, but if sub-divided we remove any hope of ever uniting.

— Nader H

This is a coca leaf. This is not cocaine. This represents the culture of indigenous people of the Andean region.

— Evo Morales

We need to be vocal in our support of female colleagues who are pressing for a dramatic shift in the culture of…

— Nick Boles

In stopping Gamergate, the men who dominate it - not just women - must address the culture that created Gamergate.

— Brianna Wu

I believe that art can make relevant and progressive contributions to culture and society.

— Trevor Paglen

“The clearest way to see through a culture is to attend to its tools for conversation.”

— Neil Postman

We can't change the culture of racism unless we change the celebration of racism.

— Ja Morant

There's not a lot of people expressing anger in the culture. They're expressing a lot of hyper-exaggerated sexuality.

— Courtney Love

Hip hop culture has done more for race relations in American than anything since Martin Luther King. And I really believe that.

— Steve Stoute

But it is a law of life and development in history where two national civilizations meet they fight for ascendancy.

— Bernhard von Bulow

Values are so individual that everyone has distinctive form of theirs.

— Ilkin Santak

“A strong, positive culture holds us accountable for taking responsibility and finding solutions.”

— Mitch Gray

The military tends to be a traditional place. Traditional culture, traditional men are often attracted to serving in the military.

— Tanya Biank

Our society's obsession with tolerance leads to intolerance. Simply being a Christian today is an offense to our culture.

— Charles Colson

“The last time everyone loved or at least liked everyone was when the world had a population of about 4.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

I've enjoyed living in New York for the last 10 years, where there's a real film culture, with the Film Forum and…

— Elvis Mitchell