Culture Quotes · Page 180

In British culture, redheads get teased at school. But I've grown up enough to realize I love my hair.

— Lily Cole

Those who want to impose one language, one religion and one culture are trying to destroy the unity of India.

— M. K. Stalin

What's called "liberal" in the intelectual culture means highly conformist to power, but mildly critical.

— Noam Chomsky

Being brought up in a culture is a matter of learning appropriate forms of feeling as much as particular ways of thinking.

— Terry Eagleton

Culture and education are the lethal weapons against all kinds of fundamentalism.

— Marjane Satrapi

It is of the essence of imaginative culture that it transcends the limits both of the naturally possible and of the morally…

— Northrop Frye

Our incapacity to comprehend other cultures stems from our insistence on measuring things in our own terms.

— Arthur Erickson

In a kind of a way there's a bit of that happening now so we have to be careful to preserve our…

— Yahoo Serious

I view myself as being the average woman. While I am first lady, I wasn't first lady my whole life. I'm a…

— Michelle Obama

There was not an awareness of pop culture in the household. There was a lot of respect for working hard, and for…

— Sheila Heti

Mans most disagreeable habits and idiosyncrasies, his deceit, his cowardice, his lack of reverence, are engendered by his incomplete adjustment to a…

— Sigmund Freud

Just because certain cultures have had long-standing traditions does not mean that in today's world they are acceptable any longer. The world…

— Hayden Panettiere

[Jack] Kerouac looking at the fellaheen worlds. Looking at other cultures. Welcoming it, curious. Really stepping outside his own limited, whatever that…

— Anne Waldman

This is our culture, and I don't care who the musician is, if he avoids black people, then he is scared of…

— Betty Carter

In Europe they call geeks 'smart people,' and frankly I think we live in a culture that doesn't value intelligence enough; so…

— James Marsters

Art is the supreme communicator of diverse cultures and ideas in a common frame of understanding, a virtual bridge across time. It…

— Edward J. Fraughton

The act of migration puts into crisis everything about the migrating individual or group, everything about identity and selfhood and culture and…

— Salman Rushdie

I don't think I have rebelled against Latina culture. I have rebelled against those who try to make me warm tortillas for…

— Alice Bag

Language both reflects and shapes society. Culture shapes language and then language shapes culture. Little wonder that the words we use to…

— Rosalie Maggio

I think the number of books published by Mr. Disney has nothing to do with whether or not he is bringing literature…

— Frances Clarke Sayers

Margaret Thatcher in Britain and soon after Ronald Reagan in the United States - both hard-line advocates of market fundamentalism - announced…

— Henry Giroux

Unchecked, the dominating influences of money and of barren intellectualism would reduce the life of emotions to freezing point. And, unable to…

— Abraham Kuyper

Where has this book been? The Culture Engine demystifies the what and how of driving your company's culture to produce transformational business…

— Joseph Michelli

There was a big thing in the Behan family of achieving and wanting to be something special. There was a big drive…

— Adrian Dunbar

I hope the entire Korean culture like films can be enjoyed by many others.

— Choi Si-won

It is not for us . . . to send out missionaries to foreign peoples; it is our task to build up…

— Carl Jung

I wasn't accepted because I didn't accept the drug culture that most of my peers were involved in. Now it's like a…

— Nancy Sinatra

Really, when it comes to gay rights, there's two wars going on. The first war is political. But the culture war is…

— Dan Savage

As a teenager, I worked on Indian reservations, and it was such an incredible culture: the elders are so respected.

— Winona Ryder

In Maori culture there's a lot of humor and just as quickly we are able to express grief.

— Rachel House

I celebrate my blackness. I love the artistic vibrancy of the culture I was born to.

— Jesmyn Ward

Exploring an ever-expanding world of diverse cultures and beliefs is at the very heart of the 'Dragonships' series.

— Tracy Hickman

Through my observations, it became clear that most of society's rules and customs are rooted in fear and superstition!

— RuPaul

Tradition and heritage are all dead peoples baggage. Stop carrying it. Move forward.

— Doug Stanhope

As Israel becomes like South Africa, it's increasingly becoming a pariah state, being excluded from culture at large.

— Norman Finkelstein

What created Silicon Valley was a culture of openness, and there is no future to Silicon Valley without it.

— Sarah Lacy

I have always been a huge fan of Japanese culture, having grown up on Manga comics, their movies and food.

— Kunal Kapoor

Always trust people and they may let you down. Always distrust people and you have let them down.

— Ron Kaufman

What’s the best way to build a brand for the long term? In a word: culture.

— Tony Hsieh

in all cultures, human beings - in order to be human - must understand the nonhuman.

— Margaret Mead