Culture Quotes · Page 117

I would say that I put down a lot of the white American culture, and ways, and beliefs.

— Muhammad Ali

Literature is a state of culture, poetry is a state of grace, before and after culture.

— Juan Ramon Jimenez

In a culture where profit has become the true God, self-sacrifice can seem incomprehensible rather than noble.

— Starhawk

If we don't change our culture, the politics is going to migrate more and more to statism.

— Foster Friess

“learn to experience and learn to respect ,i love my culture and i respect it i m proud to be Xhosa”

— Saziso Lucas

It is a bitter-sweet thing, knowing two cultures. Once you leave your birthplace nothing is ever the same.

— Sarah Turnbull

[Gulliver was soon being read] "from the cabinet council to the nursery".

— John Gay

Tradition does not mean that the living are dead, it means that the dead are living.

— Harold MacMillan

We decided that if we get the culture right, most of the stuff, like building a brand around delivering the very best…

— Tony Hsieh

You know, when it was done originally, they always had to fight to keep it going at the end of each season.…

— Brett Somers

I think graffiti is part of Berlin culture. You think about what the Berlin wall meant and how visible that was in…

— Ian Bremmer

Of all the meals that represented British culture, perhaps none captured the imagination more than the Christmas pudding. It was the Victorians…

— Kwasi Kwarteng

For the first time in human evolution, the individual life is long enough, and the cultural transformation swift enough, that the individual…

— William Irwin Thompson

In a country of such recent civilization as ours, whose almost limitless treasures of material wealth invite the risks of capital and…

— Felix Adler

For me as an artist, pop culture has so much power and influences society on a regular basis - I see it…

— Lauren Jauregui

The whole culture is under terrible pressure and fraught with worry. It's hard to get out of that box. That's the dominant…

— James Hillman

A lot of the pieces I've done over the years have involved alterations of scale and the idea of the viewer's relationship…

— Michael C. McMillen

Culture is a matrix of infinite possibilities and choices. From within the same culture matrix we can extract arguments and strategies for…

— Wole Soyinka

“How shortsighted and how uncultured, then, are the efforts of believers in Christ when they seek for snatches of worldly culture for…

— Cornelius Van Til

The first step in liquidating a people is to erase its memory. Destroy its books, its culture, its history. Then have somebody…

— Milan Kundera

I live in New York now, and miss France quite a bit. Of course, the reality of living in a small village…

— Danielle Trussoni

My dear young women, with all my heart I urge you not to look to contemporary culture for your role models and…

— M. Russell Ballard

I want to be a positive role model, especially for kids and Aboriginal people... When people see me, often all they see…

— Cathy Freeman

The improved American highway system isolated the American-in-transit. On his speedway he had no contact with the towns which he by-passed. If…

— Daniel J. Boorstin

In the modern technoindustrial culture, it is possible to proceed from infancy into senility without ever knowing manhood.

— Edward Abbey

What most people in our culture mean by being lovable is essentially a mixture between being popular and having sex appeal.

— Erich Fromm

This history of culture will explain to us the motives, the conditions of life, and the thought of the writer or reformer.

— Leo Tolstoy

Ideas and not battles mark the forward progress of mankind. Individuals, and not masses, form the culture of the race.

— L Ron Hubbard

“In my opinion, our health care system has failed when a doctor fails to treat an illness that is treatable.”

— Kevin Alan Lee

I want to contribute to the culture and keep great writers alive by telling the stories of their lives.

— Fred Kaplan

A civilization, a culture, cannot survive without passion, cannot be saved without passion.

— Oriana Fallaci

It's hard for it to make a mark in this city because London has so much culture to offer.

— Toby Jones

I don't really know much about pirates, or pirate culture. I'd be a contrarian pirate.

— Todd Barry

If your customers have to ask you for it, you haven't been thinking far enough ahead.

— Ron Kaufman

I said I would be part of the solution in Jefferson City, not part of the problem. And I said I'd take…

— Josh Hawley

I ask you to write this deeply into your souls . . . the materialistic culture . . . is now on the way to its close.

— Rudolf Steiner

Do not, under any circumstances, put this book down and turn on the teevee. The teevee debilitates our culture.

— Inga Muscio

Beliefs. Once entrenched in a culture, they persist, evolve and diverge, in a manner reminiscent of biological evolution.

— Richard Dawkins

No one gave me a recipe for how to create company culture. I wish I had had one.

— Andy Dunn

Gay culture is far from 'marginal,' being rather 'intersectional,' the conduits between unlike beings.

— Judy Grahn