Culture Quotes · Page 197

The easiest way to subjugate a people is to erase a culture. I've seen it in war zones.

— Morgan Neville

I can't understand why culture cops try and impose their brand of morality on others.

— Shefali Zariwala

I can't pretend that I don't subscribe to Internet music culture in that I discover new music and old music simultaneously.

— Alan Palomo

Apl has a lot of songs that are paying homage to his native tongue. He's from the Philippines. He has songs inspired…

— Taboo

“The tradition of all dead generations weighs like a nightmare on the brains of the living.”

— Karl Marx

Culture is a collaborative exercise, and I think everybody will do their bit to help it grow.

— Grayson Perry

We must recognize what in our accepted tradition is damaging to our fate and dignity-and shape our lives accordingly.

— Albert Einstein

Our culture has changed. It has become more violent. People are literally afraid to go to the movies or to school.

— Patty Judge

We are still a pioneer culture in some ways. A pioneer culture has to put all of its muscle into surviving on…

— Jean Houston

The Bible, undoubtedly, is a mixed bag. I don't see myself coming back to the Church. I do like the tradition. If…

— Steve Coogan

I feel that I already have the life I love and I don't see how it could be improved radically by any…

— Pankaj Mishra

The centuries-old history and culture of India, majestic architectural monuments and museums of Delhi, Agra and Mumbai have a unique attractive force.

— Vladimir Putin

Publicity is the life of this culture - in so far as without publicity capitalism could not survive - and at the…

— John Berger

In earlier cultures with pagan belief systems, light and dark were celebrated equally, people were around death a lot. In contemporary Western…

— Robert Eggers

People don't realize how black people, minorities, women as well, all their lives, they have had to make the effort to understand…

— Raoul Peck

Bieber is the first mega YouTube star, born inexplicably out of a novel and disruptive medium. It has, of course, always been…

— Michael Wolff

“I wasn't sure about that, but one never knows. Sometimes a neighborhood, like a culture or civilization, is strong enough to absorb…

— Nelson DeMille

In '77 there was no Internet, there was no Twitter or Facebook, and I think that, without being some old git who…

— Steve Jones

In the seventies, a group of American artists seized the means not of production but of reproduction. They tore apart visual culture…

— Jerry Saltz

“A culture and its people are symbiotic—the culture attracts certain kinds of people and the people in turn either reinforce or evolve…

— Ray Dalio

In the Germany of the l920s, the Weimar Republic, both orga­nismic biology and Gestalt psychology were part of a larger intellectual trend…

— Fritjof Capra

What makes 'Pootie Tang' the motion picture enjoyable is its no-brow ambitions; it's a joke action film. It slides through enough African-American…

— Elvis Mitchell

“Often I felt that these men were play-acting: the unreality of their role was their security, even their own destinies were to…

— Halldór Laxness

At the root of the Noble Savage myth is this basic truth: the savage is good, but he's also violent. This is…

— Bruno Dumont

It is a sure sign that a culture has reached a dead end when it is no longer intrigued by its myths.

— Greil Marcus

I think that cultural influence is very deep, it is not on the surface and this is true in every culture.

— Michael Craig-Martin

Money is like a mirror to our culture. What we see tells us who we are.

— Jacob Needleman

I celebrate every culture. I love the mix of cultures and I'm never going to change that because that's inspiring to me.

— Guido Palau

In their heyday, comics were a dominant force in popular culture, but that's over.

— Garry Trudeau

By the time you rise through the ranks, the culture of homogenization has bred the spirit and imagination out of you.

— Ralph Nader

“Culture stems from founders, but it is best reflected in the trusted team the founders form to launch their venture.”

— Eric Schmidt

I am not belittling the brave pioneer men but the sunbonnet as well as the sombrero has helped to settle this glorious…

— Edna Ferber

In the coming decades, questions of identity, meaning cultural heritage, language, and religion will play a central role in politics.

— Samuel P. Huntington

We have developed a culture in which we eat with our taste buds, not our brains.

— David H. Murdock

The Kennedy lifestyle is something that is looked upon favorably by the elites throughout our culture, both political and social.

— Rush Limbaugh

I think my heritage makes me very open to try things, taking on different flavours, mixing it all up. I find that…

— Rachel Khoo

Brand is really the connection between you and your customersif you have a very strong culture, then the brand will come through.

— Brian Chesky

The bottom line is a by-product of taking care of your main product - your customers.

— Ron Kaufman

Of course it is extremely difficult to like oneself in a culture which thinks you are a disease.

— Chrystos

It is confusing, because in this culture we really don't have anything that corresponds to geisha.

— Arthur Golden