Culture Quotes · Page 196

The greatest advances in human civilization have come when we recovered what we had lost: when we learned the lessons of history.

— Winston Churchill

The loss of the culture is one of the main reasons Ciro Guerra wanted to tell their story.

— Tom Cole

Translation is not a matter of words only: it is a matter of making intelligible a whole culture.

— Anthony Burgess

We want our men and women to be closely attuned to the cultures in which they operate and to speak the local…

— Gina Haspel

“You know how thick I am. I don't even eat yoghurt because it's got culture in it.”

— Elly Griffiths

“We have been trained by a culture of violence and we are all agents of passive violence.”

— Bryant McGill

We are producing urban places which are disjointed and disconnected and not worthy of our civilisation

— Moshe Safdie

We're lucky to be in the middle of a TV renaissance. It's the healthiest storytelling medium in our culture.

— Nick Antosca

I can't help but feel that trying to locate a universal femininity in either consumer culture or particular bodily functions serves as…

— Ash Sarkar

The masses are still ungrateful or ignorant. They prefer murder, poisonings, and crimes generally to a literature possessed of style and feeling.

— George Sand

We live in a culture where the one who shouts the loudest gets the most attention. It's not in the vulgar, it's…

— Duane Michals

I always used to say hybrids would rule the world - people who have an understanding of many cultures and can relate…

— Danai Gurira

I believe women not just in the United States but throughout the world deserve equality and freedom but know I am in…

— Roxane Gay

I thought to be feminine was to give in to straight culture, or the beauty standard, but in my heart I had…

— Beth Ditto

Everybody does music from his culture and his experiences with his culture. There are not so many people who are interested by…

— Rokia Traore

I think laughter is crucial. Some of the original cultures, like the Dalit and the Native American, don't separate laughter and seriousness.

— Gloria Steinem

“IT is proverbially easier to destroy than to construct ; and as a corollary of this proverb, it is easier for readers…

— T.S. Eliot

You cannot build a cultural identity without the images and sounds of your culture. Most countries in the third world - poor…

— Rithy Panh

You grow the fastest by getting... adopting ideas and technologies from other cultures. And that has been proven in history, time and…

— Ottmar Liebert

Please just look at those Indonesian cities: Jakarta, Surabaya, Medan... are there any other cities on earth, of that size, with such…

— Andre Vltchek

We live in a culture that wants to put a redemptive face on everything, so anger doesn't sit well with any of…

— Claire Messud

“Rape culture is a concept of unknown origin and of uncertain definition; yet it has made its way into everyday vocabulary and…

— Joyce E Williams

I've thought for years, sometimes against my will, about what kind of son I'm supposed to be, what's expected. Being Korean, that's…

— John Cho

I grew up in Flagstaff, Arizona, without a television or any connection with pop culture. My father was a director of a…

— Ted Danson

That is what [Andy] Warhol portraits do: They elevate the subject into an icon of the pop culture he was documenting.

— Giorgio Armani

Your skin starts itching once you buy that gimmick about something called love.

— Iggy Pop

I'm a woman of color, but I have so many different cultures inside of me.

— Kylie Bunbury

I think the theatre is as essential to civilization as safe, pure water.

— Vanessa Redgrave

What's great is my parents aren't stuck in the '60s. My dad is so into the culture of today.

— Winona Ryder

Without the instinct for adventure, any civilization, however enlightened; any state, however well-ordered, will wilt and wither.

— Kurt Hahn

That's what culture is based on, the passing down of a certain narrative by imitation.

— Bradford Cox

This website is the dream of people who want to change the culture of state government.

— Steve Rauschenberger

Whenever there's a change with Jazz & its aesthetics, it's almost always reflected with a change in the culture.

— Tom Harrell

We want to build a winning culture and there's a great chance to do that in pre-season.

— Martin Odegaard

The design process, at its best, integrates the aspirations of art, science, and culture.

— Jeff Smith

Traditions insist upon themselves. Look around, and you will see them trying to exist everywhere, in everyone's life.

— Elizabeth Berg

Keeping the peace with the particular man in one's life becomes more essential than battling the mass male culture.

— Susan Faludi

Russia is a part of European culture. Therefore, it is with difficulty that I imagine NATO as an enemy.

— Vladimir Putin

Mad Men - it seems like they try to capture this glamorized version of the '50s and '60s advertising culture.

— Geoffrey Gray

One thing that is not to be underestimated is American cultures influence on the rest of the world.

— Yael Stone