Culture Quotes · Page 179

Very simply, the culture of another people does not have to be accepted when it is subhuman!

— Armstrong Williams

With modelling, you go somewhere for 24 hours and you don't even see the city, you don't talk to people or see…

— Olga Kurylenko

With a brand like Gucci, you have to give something that belongs to beautiful Italian culture in terms of craftsmanship and materials.

— Alessandro Michele

“A great civilization is not conquered from without until it has destroyed itself within”

— Will Durant

I think gun culture is disgusting but people need to think about it before they start judging.

— Lisa Maffia

Our heavily meat-centered culture is at the very heart of our waste of the earth's productivity.

— Frances Moore Lappé

Well, I think that hip-hop is not just a music. It's really a culture and it's a way of life.

— Thomas Chatterton Williams

Iowa City is okay as Midwestern cities go, but theres no food, no culture, no ocean.

— Elin Hilderbrand

“Parks, plazas, gardens, and rooftops are culture-producing places, not merely place for retreat. Sidewalks and bridges become ends in themselves instead of…

— Sally A. Kitt Chappell

What civilization is, is 6 billion people trying to make themselves happy by standing on each other's shoulders and kicking each other's…

— Terence McKenna

“Everyone in your culture knows this. Man was born to turn the world into a paradise, but tragically he was born flawed.…

— Daniel Quinn

People of color grow up steeped in 'white' culture. The reverse is not true. And, no, listening to hip-hop on the way…

— John Ridley

I couldn't tell you why but now I know a story is in fact where you discover who you are, where a…

— Chinua Achebe

Every ethnic group has a mythology... Until 'Roots'... there was nothing in the popular culture to refute the paragraph in elementary school…

— A'Lelia Bundles

I started studying indigenous cultures and I was really inspired by their life styles and the way that they lived. Part of…

— Shailene Woodley

When I meet people from other cultures I know that they too want happiness and do not want suffering, this allows me…

— Dalai Lama

We have become so quick and effective in building things today. It would be easy to build another Pyramid of Giza or…

— Zhang Xin

Part of the fabric of America is that we have people from different countries who've come here and they are American, and…

— Lee Isaac Chung

It's been a struggling school for many, many years, and [that's] not surprising since it's serving some of the most disadvantaged kids…

— Pedro Noguera

For the most part we do not first see, and then define, we define first and then see. In the great blooming,…

— Walter Lippmann

For memetics to be a reasonable research programme, it should be the case that copying, and differential success in causing the multiplication…

— Dan Sperber

We are devastated to learn of the death of Alexander McQueen, one of the greatest talents of his generation. He brought a…

— Anna Wintour

Public taste changes and the aesthetic of a culture changes over time, so the idea isn't to appeal to the aesthetic of…

— Chuck Palahniuk

When I was 17, I worked in a mentoring program in Harlem designed to improve the community. That's when I first gained…

— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

I would love to act in Bengali movies, but the work culture here is pathetic.

— Sayani Gupta

With Malaysian and Indian heritage, food is a big part of our culture and I am always cooking and always entertaining.

— Guy Sebastian

Chief Keef scares me. Not him specifically, but just the culture that he represents.

— Lupe Fiasco

I believe that artists should be part of the culture. I think that my work clearly bears that out.

— Kehinde Wiley

If culture was a house, then language was the key to the front door, [and] to all rooms inside.

— Khaled Hosseini

I'm not trying to cut myself off from the rest of the culture by not licensing.

— Hutch Harris

“We are not the products of our culture, we are the creators of it.”

— David Hight

Lesbianism, politically organized, is the greatest threat that exists to male supremacy.

— Rita Mae Brown

“An organization's culture is the compass that guides its employees to success.”

— Dax Bamania

“Civilisation, after all, is defined by what we forbid, more than what we permit.”

— Gregory David Roberts

I'm definitely curious. I love pop culture. I'm glued to it. I can watch garbage TV, but then I can also watch…

— Michael Kors

The important thing is being capable of emotions, but to experience only one's own would be a sorry limitation.

— Andre Gide

My parents gave me a Mexican name. In our culture, we are named after the events of the day.

— Lupita Nyong'o

Supporting Celtic, waving a tricolour because your parents are Irish - that's a valid culture.

— Frankie Boyle

The principles stated in the proclamation on the family are a beautiful expression of this gospel culture.

— Dallin H. Oaks

A nation or civilization that continues to produce soft-minded men purchases its own spiritual death on the installment plan.

— Martin Luther King, Jr