Culture Quotes · Page 177

For the first time, the weird and the stupid and the coarse are becoming our cultural norms, even our cultural ideal.

— Carl Bernstein

If you don't like a place, maybe you don't know enough about it... Give a culture the benefit of your open mind.

— Rick Steves

If the main contribution that Christians make to culture is complaining about it, we're doing something wrong.

— Eric Metaxas

[A] high minded gallantry in defense of the foundations of Christian culture.

— Pope Pius XII

I assure you that interest in Japanese culture in Russia is just as strong as interest in Russian culture in Japan.

— Vladimir Putin

Comedy is a very big part of the English culture, the sense of humor; it's a very dominant trait.

— Kate Bush

The culture of Greece is not the same as the culture of Germany, and to fuse them into a single unit is…

— Alan Greenspan

We've arranged a civilization in which most crucial elements profoundly depend on science and technology.

— Carl Sagan

What strikes me most of all in Christian culture, which is supposed to be concerned with the rights of the weakest, is…

— Dacia Maraini

Our secular culture is adrift in a sea of relativism, escapism, and self-indulgent inanities, with our media and entertainment elites leading the…

— Tom Tancredo

I think Hollywood has always, you know, there's always been glamour associated to it. And especially in the last ten years there…

— Debra Messing

Whether you're from Egypt or Argentina or Singapore or Canada, you have a need to feel important, a need to feel secure,…

— Mark Manson

“It is said culture requires slaves. I say that no cultured society can be built with slaves. This terrible Twentieth Century has…

— Wilhelm Reich

Every tradition grows continually more venerable, and the more remote its origins, the more this is lost sight of. The veneration paid…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Like almost everyone else in America, I grew up believing the myth of the objective scientist. Fortunately I was raised on the…

— Vine Deloria Jr

America is no longer the melting pot it used to be. It has now become a tossed salad of foreigners that arrive…

— Jay Severin

Investors do not like losing money. They do not like companies that fail. They do not like entrepreneurs that fail. There is…

— Julie Wainwright

American poetry has been part of a culture in conflict…We are a people tending toward democracy at the level of hope; at…

— Muriel Rukeyser

Citizens across the United States are now uniting in a great cause to establish a Department of Peace, seeking nothing less than…

— Dennis Kucinich

Aesthetic culture is not the high-road to all the virtues, and, indeed, certain of the vices have been known to infest it.…

— Lewis Foreman Day

I think the really significant part of it for us, for the western world, is we have a lot to gain from…

— Adam Yauch

I grew up on Bond, and it is part of my culture, especially in Britain. Just to be known as a Bond…

— Gemma Arterton

Destroying the nation state are mainly three things: the global economy, global communication technology and global culture. And this is where we…

— Tariq Ramadan

To create such people, such People's Representatives in Indonesia, would take decades, and they can only grow up in a fundamentally different…

— Andre Vltchek

“Our struggle to navigate the space of possible pains and pleasures produces most of human culture.”

— Sam Harris

They who study mankind with a whip in their hands will always go wrong.

— Frederick Douglass

Command-and-control isn't the kind of corporate culture people want to be in anymore.

— Mindy Grossman

Empowering people turns Wal-Mart's culture into a competitive advantage.

— Michael Bergdahl

Pop culture is not about depth. It's about marketing, supply and demand, consumerism.

— Trevor Dunn

In organizations (or even in a society) where culture is weak, you need an abundance of heavy, precise rules and processes.

— Brian Chesky

Duty of a citizen to the defective state is betraying it. Because the defective state has already betrayed its citizens.

— Ilkin Santak

For too long our culture has said, "If it feels good, do it." Now America is embracing a new ethic and a…

— George W. Bush

There weren't too many books featuring other cultures and countries when I was growing up as an immigrant kid here in the…

— Mitali Perkins

Dishonoring what we feel is an epidemic that has us self-medicating as a culture and trying to numb ourselves.

— Abiola Abrams

If you make a movie of the present day culture, in the future it'll be a horror film.

— Jacque Fresco

Teachers still command great respect in the families and societies of many Asian cultures.

— Andy Hargreaves

I think that New York is not the cultural centre of America, but the business and administrative centre of American culture.

— Saul Bellow

In terms of fast food and deep understanding of the culture of fast food, I'm your man.

— Bill Gates

Polish culture has always had a strong anti-Semitic undercurrent. There has been awful persecution.

— Olga Tokarczuk

American Christianity is based more on a godless culture than it is the word of God.

— Paul Washer