Culture Quotes · Page 78

There is a tendency around the world today to copy TV culture. And that is not always a virtue.

— Francis Arinze

Preservation of one's own culture does not require contempt or disrespect for other cultures.

— Cesar Chavez

People never talked about my music. They just counted how many knickers were on stage.

— Tom Jones

We belong to an age whose culture is in danger of perishing through the means to culture.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“Stupid patriarchal culture with stupid ideas of beauty—stupid me for going along with it.”

— Marni Bates

The taming and domestication of religion is one of the unceasing chores of civilization.

— Christopher Hitchens

No civilization, no matter how mighty it may appear to itself, is indestructible.

— Niall Ferguson

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

— Ron Kaufman

In this post-modern culture in which we live - where people question absolute truth - stories are resistant to platitudes; they're resistant…

— Max Lucado

I say to my industrialist friends, when you have guests from out of town, I don't care how important they are, you…

— Brunello Cucinelli

I have a pretty good knowledge of the Indian world by virtue of living on several different reservations and being exposed to…

— N. Scott Momaday

Japan is the most intoxicating place for me. In Kyoto, there's an inn called the Tawaraya which is quite extraordinary. The Japanese…

— Roman Coppola

Snoop [Dog] said [Peaky Blinders] reminded him of how he got involved with gang culture. It's always fantastically flattering when I see…

— Steven Knight

Civilization never stands still; if in one country it is falling back, in another it is changing, evolving, becoming more complicated, bringing…

— Arthur Keith

What was once called the objective world is a sort of Rorschach ink blot, into which each culture, each system of science…

— Anonymous

So many people just have that innate thing that allows them to express themselves in a way the majority can follow. That's…

— Pharrell Williams

Far too many businesses have been all too eager to lobby for maintaining and increasing subsidies and mandates paid by taxpayers and…

— Charles Koch

We're going to be surprised when we discover that things in Heaven are normal and natural, much like this life. Of course,…

— David Berg

It's not my place to say how Zoe Saldana perceives herself, and I can't say how anybody else perceives her, either. I…

— India Arie

Science is intimately integrated with the whole social structure and cultural tradition. They mutually support one other-only in certain types of society…

— Talcott Parsons

I am a passionate traveler, and from the time I was a child, travel formed me as much as my formal education.…

— David Rockefeller

Of course all such conclusions about appropriate actions against the rich and powerful are based on a fundamental flaw: This is us,…

— Noam Chomsky

Christianity is integral to not only the culture and black culture at large, but also the survival of black people at large.…

— RaMell Ross

I'm sure that growing up in the Midwest played a role in my chronic escapism. In fact, before I lived in France,…

— Danielle Trussoni

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

In a school where everyone is famous or rich or whatever, you have a culture, 'What does your dad do?' 'What does…

— Cynthia Nixon

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

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 that the culture at Stanford really shapes how you view the world, and you get a lot more out of…

— Joe Lonsdale

Our great civilization, here in America and across the civilized world has come upon a moment of reckoning.

— Donald Trump

The mission of the press is to spread culture while destroying the attention span.

— Karl Kraus

It is a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more money writing or talking about his art…

— W. H. Auden

Creativity is rich with unexpected possibility. Know-how is mere fragmented mechanics which lacks tradition.

— John O'Donohue

I was lucky to move around different cultures at an early age and have experience of different lifestyles.

— Paolo Nutini

It's obvious that the rest of the world loves high African culture - African culture, period.

— Hugh Masekela

It is a Chinese tradition that everyone has to be in everyone else's life.

— Yiyun Li