Culture Quotes · Page 131

This civilization is such that one has only to be patient and it will be self-destroyed.

— Mahatma Gandhi

I grew up in East Flatbush in Brooklyn which was an intense neighbourhood filled with different West Indian cultures.

— Michael K. Williams

Our culture's zeal for longevity reveals our incredible collective fear of death.

— Ram Dass

Habits and customs are a convenience devised for the support of timid natures who dare not allow their souls free play.

— Virginia Woolf

The land is the appointed remedy for whatever is false and fantastic in our culture...food for our mind, as well as our…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Tradition is a kind of mental illness with a clear symptom of repetitiveness.

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

“In Japanese swordsmanship, it is not uncommon to speak of a unity of mind, body, and sword.”

— H.E. Davey

The Bulls are first class in every way: great people, organization, culture, and a great place to play basketball.

— Kyle Korver

A part of 'Happy New Year' is inspired by western pop culture, the pop music videos of Michael Jackson, Madonna and Duran…

— Farah Khan

I think it's a scary sign of the times that pop culture and social media is so involved [in presidential election ],…

— Lily Collins

How can we prevent this telescoping of cultures and styles from ending up in kitsch eclecticism, a cool hellenism excluding all critical…

— Nicolas Bourriaud

Soft addictions are an alluring, seductive aspect of our culture - they are easy to attain and socially acceptable, they are even…

— Judith Wright

If most American cities are about the consumption of culture, Los Angeles and New York are about the production of culture -…

— Barbara Kruger

The garden is as good a symbol as you can find of a dialectic between spheres of experience - of culture and…

— David E. Cooper

“Cannabis is renowned as a powerful hallucinogen in large doses, and certainly capable of inducing profound ecstatic ecstatic states. Anyone who who…

— John Rush

Neo-Marxists have managed to co-opt the common sense of the Western world, and this they have achieved by appropriating the media, culture,…

— Javier Milei

“The culture of the future will be one that will not involve the aristocracy, peasants, merchants or ownership of land, for these…

— VD

There are degrees of loneliness, ways in which the experience of loneliness deepens, becomes something like what we might call a way…

— Thomas L. Dumm

From person's movement patterns I can tell a lot of things: if pain is in the body, whether someone is depressed, what…

— Dana Tai Soon Burgess

“No one today is purely one thing. Labels like Indian, or woman, or Muslim, or American are not more than starting-points, which…

— Edward W. Said

Play is a universal language. It gives a sense of joy in being alive. It is one of the healthiest things we…

— Louise Hart

British culture is very cynical sometimes of overt displays of sentimentality, and I think that becomes almost a suspicion of emotion, or…

— Matt Haig

I like this idea of the re-foundation of the European Union, maybe it can be done, because Europe - I do not…

— Pope Francis

We came to recognize that our initial thinking about the keys to educational reform was wrong. The key variables weren't pedagogical. They…

— Anonymous

If history tells us anything, it is that human culture and knowledge are constantly evolving.

— James Redfield

I'm very empathic to the construction of masculinity within our culture and how we build these identities up.

— Catherine Opie

“...I have come to be convinced that it is only the unbending observance of custom that sustains life in an urban circumstance.”

— Gordon Lish

I took over a job in Golden State with a bad culture, guys that said they wanted to win, but didn't want…

— Mark Jackson

Sometimes I feel like a one man crusade against the devaluation of music in America and culture in the arts.

— Terry Bozzio

“the highest monuments of human civilization accept its ironies and lend their eternity to its mischievous pranks.”

— Victor Hugo

Now that we're poisoned with the culture of superheroes, I think it's important to laugh about it.

— Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

We still have so many cultures in which people are imprisoned and whipped and killed for writing what they think.

— Alice Mattison

Hiring people is an art, not a science, and resumes can't tell you whether someone will fit into a company's culture.

— Howard Schultz

One great function of the arts is to keep ideals alive in a culture that does not yet realize them.

— Susan Neiman

You can love the Mexican culture, you can love your Mexican-American wife and also believe that we need to control the border.

— Jeb Bush

The food and the people in Thailand never let you down and Bangkok is an astonishing place - the culture's lovely and…

— Dave Myers

The whole culture is telling you to hurry, while the art tells you to take your time. Always listen to the art.

— Junot Diaz

Independence is useful, but caring attitudes and behaviors shrivel up in a culture where each person is responsible only for himself.

— Alfie Kohn

“Most of your heritage comes from your culture, stupidity is one of them.”

— M.F. Moonzajer

The culture of New Orleans, the culture of the Saints, it's just special all around.

— Mark Ingram II