Culture Quotes · Page 188

Contemporary art is an epoch of false money allied with false culture.

— Alexander Stoddart

I've got tremendous respect for different cultures, for the food and everything.

— Ian Rush

“One problem with today's culture is that we defend too many rights and ignore too many wrongs.”

— Ron Brackin

I am pleased the Ministry of Culture is protecting the morals of expatriate bankers and their girlfriends.

— Mick Jagger

Throughout the world Dark Ages have scrawled finis to successions of cultures receding far into the past.

— Jane Jacobs

Traditions tell us where we have come from. Scripture itself is a better guide as to where we should now be going.

— Anonymous

Part of maintaining a thriving creative culture is giving people time and permission to play.

— Tim Brown

One of the things that I'm fascinated about generally is the rise and fall of everything, from civilizations to families to companies.

— Satya Nadella

“We live in a uniform civilization, within well-defined cultural models: furnishings, decorative elements, blankets, record player have all been chosen among a…

— Italo Calvino

Science is an integral part of culture. It's not this foreign thing, done by an arcane priesthood. It's one of the glories…

— Stephen Jay Gould

Tossed into the Secaucus graveyard are about 25 centuries of classical culture and the standards of style, elegance and grandeur that it…

— Ada Louise Huxtable

I believe that pop culture is just, like, so ready for 'Watchmen.' We tried so hard to ride that wave between satire…

— Zack Snyder

Belief demands that you dispense with illusion after illusion, while contemporary common sense requires continual, fluffy pretending - pretending that might as…

— Francis Spufford

We become aware, however, that all customs, even the hardest, grow pleasanter and milder with time, and that the severest way of…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Iran's experience shows that when religious scholars and UNFPA work together to solve reproductive health issues, there can be excellent results.

— Hossein Malek-Afzali

Some people think literature is high culture and that it should only have a small readership. I don't think so... I have…

— Haruki Murakami

The romantics were reacting against a modern culture that divided individuals from themselves (through specialisation in the division of labor), from others…

— Frederick C. Beiser

As a kid growing up in the 1950s I became acutely aware of the changes taking place in American culture and I…

— Robert Crumb

One of my favorite places is the Maldives, an all-Muslim nation in the Indian Ocean with a culture that stretches back 5,000…

— Bill McKibben

The history of science and culture is filled with stories of how many of the greatest scientific and artistic discoveries occurred while…

— Daniel Levitin

We can't keep begging or expecting people to give us an opportunity to make a movie or to represent our culture in…

— David Banner

My particular lifetime, my individual profile, represents something very basic to African-American history and culture because I was a second generation immigrant,…

— John Edgar Wideman

American Sign Language is a language. It's fun to learn, and it's different from other languages because you use your hands, you…

— Millicent Simmonds

I think that the development of any culture has something to do with the way people deal with the concept of illusion.…

— Vik Muniz

It's not difficult to sing in German; it's difficult to feel in German. This takes time. It's a culture.

— Cecilia Bartoli

We now have a whole culture based on the assumption that people know nothing and so anything can be said to them.

— Stephen Vizinczey

I like slightly obscure places, where the waves may not be world class, but you can tie some culture in with your…

— Ben Howard

There's too much of a culture that exists out there, what I call an expectancy culture, of things being provided.

— Alan Sugar

Only the powerless live in a money culture and know nothing about money.

— Phyllis Chesler

There's a difference between being culturally insensitive - being insensitive towards a culture - and being insensitive.

— Logan Paul

The dominant culture in most big companies demands punishment for a mistake, no matter how useful, small, invisible...

— Tom Peters

“The tradition of past generations weighs like the Alps on the brains of the living.”

— Karl Marx

If you consider yourself a part of the culture, then finances can't allow you to be bigger than the actual art form.

— Curtis Jackson

Don't waste time trying to put in what was left out. Try to draw out what was left in.

— Marcus Buckingham

Even in high school, I was keenly aware of this remarkable tradition that the U.K. had of designing and making.

— Jonathan Ive

There is always change, bad customs pass and give way to better ones.

— Alfred Lord Tennyson

I've never been massive on rap, but there's that whole kind of culture of U.K. rap.

— MNEK

There is no Baltic identity with a common culture, language group, religious tradition.

— Toomas Hendrik Ilves

Yes, I am a Mexican, and I have a past and a culture. But what matters is the film itself, not where…

— Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

Where is the society which does not struggle along under a dead-weight of tradition and law inherited from its grandfather?

— Suzanne La Follette