Culture Quotes · Page 96

People constantly express surprise that Americans are so hot for Shakespeare. But Britain's culture is American culture, too.

— Sam Wanamaker

I think it's very important for us to start to build a culture of resistance, because what we're doing isn't working, clearly.

— Derrick Jensen

I am particularly distressed when people in the public eye who influence our culture perpetuate sexism.

— Gretchen Carlson

I'm not a trained dancer, but I grew up in a culture that revolves around dance.

— Shakira

Where there is Peace, there is Culture; Where there is Culture, there is Peace.

— Nicholas Roerich

We are free to say that in respect to political rights, we hold women to be justly entitled to all we claim…

— Frederick Douglass

“He who wars against the arts, wars not against nations, but against all mankind.”

— Arthur Urbane Dilley

“Traditions stifle imagination. They are the invisible destroyer of dreams.”

— Jen Fraser

To further the appreciation of culture among all the people, to increase respect for the creative individual, to widen participation by all…

— John Fitzgerald Kennedy

Many countries had a hand in raising me. I am the product of many contradicting philosophies and cultures... My entire universe is…

— Masiela Lusha

One meaningful distinction between high and popular culture, is that there's way more good popular culture - because its standards of quality…

— Robert Christgau

[Americans] think that choice, as seen through the American lens, best fulfills an innate and universal desire for choice in all humans.…

— Sheena Iyengar

Thanks to the success of Henning Mankell and Peter Hoeg, there wasn't the same stigma attached to writing genre thrillers in Scandinavia…

— Jo Nesbo

All the same, they [books] do serve some purpose. Culture doesn't save anything or anyone, it doesn't justify. But it's a product…

— Jean-Paul Sartre

Men are no more immune from emotions than women; we think women are more emotional because the culture lets them give free…

— Una Stannard

Right now, I've never been more impressed by the new bands that we meet. I may be 10, 20 years older, but…

— Chris Robinson

The question of surrender is political, it is not a question of love. And relationship is not love at all; it means…

— Rajneesh

Some people think that culture is overhyped and peripheral. A season of opera is less important than the refurbishment of a school,…

— Munira Mirza

“No algorithm exists for the metaphor, nor can a metaphor be produced by means of a computer’s precise instructions, no matter what…

— Umberto Eco

Horror hostess, bondage goddess, Charles Addams cartoon comes to life, Vampire was every first-generation fanboy's wet dream. Scott Poole takes us on…

— Sheri Holman

The objective I propose is quite simple to state: to foster the infrastructure of democracy - the system of a free press,…

— Ronald Reagan

Culture is already there and the church will continue to be even more irrelevant when it quotes letters from two thousand years…

— Rob Bell

Evolving our culture to operate and think differently is no small task. We are challenging our employees to be the best of…

— Denise Morrison

Student loans are destroying the imagination of youth. If there’s a way of a society committing mass suicide, what better way than…

— David Graeber

I respect traditions, you can't walk all over them, but at the same time our world is changing. Life is about moving…

— Motsi Mabuse

No organization ever created an innovation. People innovate, not companies.

— Seth Godin

Here in New Mexico, we have a proud tradition of service and respect for the military.

— Ben Ray Lujan

It's becoming increasingly difficult to find kids to hang out with that don't consume a lot of commercial culture.

— Caterina Fake

The truth is that this culture of political correctness has tied the hands of law enforcement around the USA.

— Mike Pence

But, when I toil in the field of Jewish culture which I frequently do, I am indeed a Jewish artist.

— Theodore Bikel

Although we love the idea of choice - our culture almost worships it - we seek refuge in the familiar and the…

— Hugh Mackay

Absolutely nothing is so important for a nation's culture as its language.

— Wilhelm von Humboldt

Indian weddings are elaborate. As a culture, we like to celebrate everything Our weddings go on for sometimes a week, 10 days.

— Abhishek Bachchan

You create a fearful culture where you spend a lot of time looking at where you screwed up,

— Alex Bogusky

Atlanta's the hub of black culture, and it's OK to be you there - it's the city that really shaped me to…

— Brian Tyree Henry

Every civilization is, among other things, an arrangement for domesticating the passions and setting them to do useful work.

— Aldous Huxley

We may have different religions, different languages, different colored skin, but we all belong to one human race.

— Anonymous

Fight to preserve these traits of civilization, that made us go forward.

— Janusz Korwin-Mikke

If you attempt to implement reforms but fail to engage the culture of a school, nothing will change.

— Seymour Sarason

When you care about the culture, you can stop, pause, and say, "Okay, where do I stand in the midst of this…

— LeCrae