Culture Quotes · Page 140

I read a lot of Icelandic sagas when I was young. I've always been interested in the Viking culture.

— Kristofer Hivju

In America we eat, collectively, with a glum urge for food to fill us. We are ignorant of flavour. We are as…

— M. F. K. Fisher

I love the fans. I love the culture. I love the vibe. And I'm all about winning, and I'm all about winning…

— Fernando Tatis Jr

“Such men will never know the added love of their culture which comes from a knowledge of other ways of life.”

— Ruth Benedict

Learning is a critical part of our mission and organizational culture.

— Charles Best

“We do not actually know other cultures; we only know our judgements.”

— Bryant McGill

One of the things about the whole Harley motorcycle culture is that it's a little bit renegade.

— John Travolta

“There is enormous pressure on you to take a place in the story your culture is enacting in the world— any place…

— Daniel Quinn

I think sex is completely absurdly demonized in our culture. But in the end, however much sex you want to have, with…

— Andrew Sullivan

I think I fish, in part, because it's an anti-social, bohemian business that, when gone about properly, puts you forever outside the…

— John Gierach

Culture is sustained in our synapses...It's more than what can be reduced to binary code and uploaded onto the Net. To remain…

— Nicholas G. Carr

As a feminist of Egyptian and Muslim descent, my life's work has been informed by the belief that religion and culture must…

— Mona Eltahawy

I've been to the Bahamas before, and it's so crass. You land in Nassau, and the whole island is replete with beauty…

— Matt Skiba

What drives the separation of groups of people into subgroups is the desire to control resources. We begin with a single culture,…

— Mark Pagel

The idea of the peace movement and of people who spent their entire lives trying to have a more egalitarian, just society,…

— David Amram

To keep up even a worthwhile tradition means vitiating the idea behind it which must necessarily be in a constant state of…

— Alfred Jarry

“[C]ulture, for all its importance, is not some miasma that seeps into people through their skin. Culture relies on neural circuitry that…

— Stephen Pinker

“Science is part of culture. Culture isn't only art and music and literature, it's also understanding what the world is made of…

— Max Perutz

Most of the creative industries have been deskilled by these really powerful ideologies of punk in music and Warhol in the visual…

— David Longstreth

Foreigners cannot enjoy our food, I suppose, any more than we can enjoy theirs. It is not strange; for tastes are made,…

— Mark Twain

To the eyes of a god, mankind must appear as a species of bacteria which multiply and become progressively virulent whenever they…

— Aleister Crowley

“Government observers, keen on getting the Penan out of the valuable hardwood forests, have claimed that Penan health is poor and that…

— Eric Hansen

I used to be Amish. I had to stay a lot with my grandparents or aunts and uncles who are Amish, so…

— Verne Troyer

We know longer live in a homogenous society, it is not black, white, Asian or Latin, it is a melting pot. Until…

— Octavia Spencer

We need now to build a culture of geniune nonviolence and real democracy.

— Mairead Corrigan

High performing organizations have cultures of creativity and risk. They encourage workers to innovate and play.

— Andy Hargreaves

Our minorities alone are in a position to know what the fathers of our democracy were talking about.

— Sarah-Patton Boyle

My photography is often a sociological look at American culture and it's been very well published in the UK.

— Lauren Greenfield

(Male) culture was (and is) parasitical, feeding on the emotional strength of women without reciprocity.

— Shulamith Firestone

That's just the culture that television breeds. No one wants to be difficult. You want to bring solutions, not problems.

— Helen Skelton

Reform must come from within, not from without. You cannot legislate for virtue.

— James Gibbons

I'm raising kids, and so much of American culture sustains me and gives me things to think about and work on.

— Colson Whitehead

Western culture has more need because they're so much more degenerated. They're so much more hurt, and misbalanced completely.

— Marina Abramovic

Years of misguided teaching have resulted in the destruction of the best in our society, in our cultures and in the environment.

— Cesar Chavez

Principles are the basis for developing a vision and value system for all.

— Stephen Covey

“Being in the dominant group, where the culture matches our culture, tends to lead to not only advantage, but also conscious laziness.”

— Sara Taylor

The soul of a civilization is its religion, and it dies with its faith.

— Will Durant

I think the more we embrace the culture of life and respect life, the better that we do.

— Bob McDonnell

Tradition becomes our security, and when the mind is secure it is in decay.

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

Arabic is the language of the Qur'an, but Arab culture is not the culture of Islam.

— Tariq Ramadan