Culture Quotes · Page 138

I always wanted my photographs to challenge the status quo, to contest the kinds of images that existed in popular culture.

— Dawoud Bey

I believe in pride of race and lineage and self: in pride of self so deep as to scorn injustice to other…

— W. E. B. Du Bois

We are able to choose what we want - you don't have to accept one thing from one tradition. It's a melting…

— Elizabeth Lesser

Just like the rest of the world, I became a product of my environment, and this environment was gang culture.

— Richard Cabral

The second fundamental feature of culture is that all culture has an element of striving.

— Johan Huizinga

“Tradition makes people want to cling to their identity. Change is the enemy.”

— Deepak Chopra

Music is a natural platform where different cultures express their different way of living..

— KIKI

We're Americans. It's a culture. We should defend that culture, and we should reinforce that culture.

— Roger Ailes

Study men following the law of their higher nature, the law of love, so that when you grow to manhood, you will…

— Mahatma Gandhi

Occasionally problems will occur. When it happens to your customers, fix the problem fast. Make it your speed and generosity that gets…

— Ron Kaufman

“In other words, a culture of the casual is a culture of people who already have achieved something and who already can…

— Tyler Cowen

By suppressing differences and peculiarities, by eliminating different civilizations and cultures, progress weakens life and favors death

— Octavio Paz

At the time I made 'Safe,' I was really intrigued by the whole culture around AIDS, which was turning to people like…

— Todd Haynes

There is so much that is positive, wonderful even, about state schools. At a state school your kids will learn to live…

— Arabella Weir

I'll tell you an explanation that I find commonly overrated and speculative in the extreme: the idea that things that succeed in…

— Cass Sunstein

“Nothing mitigates the throes of depression like a steaming plate of spaghetti and meatballs with marinara sauce and grated parmasan cheese, with…

— Paul Clayton

As we move toward the pluralist commonwealth, economic interventions that stabilize communities - for instance by localizing the flows of goods and…

— Gar Alperovitz

“Foreign behavior? What the fuck are you talking about? Foreign behavior? Have you read Things Fall Apart? Ifemulu asked, wishing she had…

— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Few places in American culture have made as effective a case for entrepreneurship than hip-hop. Hip-hop tells young people that our society…

— Bakari Kitwana

I went from living in the Dominican Republic - every day, my mom and I would cook, or we'd go hang out…

— Maika Monroe

“Brothers in one great family, children lose their common features only when they lose their innocence, which is the same everywhere. Then…

— François-René de Chateaubriand

Many men absorbed in business show such a rare quality of culture that we are surprised at it. The reason invariably is…

— Ernest Dimnet

In the Afghan people, I found the most resilient, welcoming people who, for the first time in my career, never judged me…

— Pietra Brettkelly

“...he refused to consider the Moroccans' present culture, however decadent, an established fact, an existing thing. Instead, he seemed to believe that…

— Paul Bowles

Civilization is a conspiracy. Modern life is the silent compact of comfortable folk to keep up pretences.

— John Buchan

The culture of celebrity has become insane. It's all based on fantasy, and I find it creepy and disturbing.

— Sophia Myles

It's kind of cool to see the different aspects of American culture on different college communities.

— Samantha Ponder

I grew up in a culture in which it was a sin for a woman to speak out.

— Terry Tempest Williams

“Culture has little to do with how refined a man's intellect is; it rather depends on the refinement of his emotions.”

— Raheel Farooq

I just love what art can do and what it means for us; that it can cross barriers. It can speak to…

— Travis Knight

The best definition of the word culture (workplaces included) that I've heard is that it's how people behave when nobody is watching.

— Gwyn Morgan

The teams in the Bay Area have created a culture of winning, but the Cubs and Metsneed to learn how to win.

— Eric Byrnes

We hired a CSR person at Twitter, years before we hired our first sales person, to make sure we had a culture…

— Biz Stone

Slaves and the descendants of slaves created world pop culture. Let's keep it real and be very respectful about that.

— Fantastic Negrito

Since custom is the principal magistrate of man's life, let men by all means endeavor to obtain good customs.

— Francis Bacon

I find pop art really offensive because it's taking a piece of popular culture and putting it somewhere where people can't see…

— Rebecca Sugar

Language is power, life and the instrument of culture, the instrument of domination and liberation.

— Angela Carter

In collaborative cultures, failure and uncertainty are not protected but shared and discussed to gain support.

— Andy Hargreaves

You take the best of our tradition as a start, and I'll take the best of Christianity ... From there we can build.

— Feisal Abdul Rauf

My father was a diplomat for part of his life and I jumped from country to country and culture to culture.

— Walter Salles