Culture Quotes · Page 141

Living in different cultures helped me work out who I was going to be, separate from where I came from.

— Jacinda Barrett

Peace we want because there is another war to fight against poverty, disease and ignorance.

— Indira Gandhi

“Be true to yourself and to the culture you were born into. Tell your story as only you can.”

— William Zinsser

The danger of our culture.- We belong to a period of which the culture is in danger of being destroyed by the…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Unless you're dying, it's ingrained in our culture to play. Pain doesn't hurt; it's just pain.

— Chris Pronger

The crucial differences which distinguish human societies and human beings are not biological. They are cultural.

— Ruth Benedict

If we desire peace, we must prepare for peace. The most important thing is to build a culture of peace.

— Anwarul Karim Chowdhury

I certainly hope the strengths and values of this country hold up to comparison to other cultures.

— Bill Vaughan

Growing up with my brothers, I was like an accompanying mascot to them. The whole heritage and culture of soundsystems is all…

— Jazzie B

Perhaps it is time to debate culture. The common story is that in 'real' African culture, before it was tainted by the…

— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

To be able to translate the customs, ideas and appearance of my times as I see them - in a word, to…

— Gustave Courbet

Yeah, it constantly feels like you're constantly checking if you're funny enough, because I think this country's naturally funny. I think the…

— Lucy Beaumont

I do think everything that happens in American pop culture sort of prescribes for England and does end up happening there six…

— Emma Forrest

Basically the school system sets you up with what it wants to set you up with. They're really good at it. I…

— Jack Bowman

Our culture has become increasingly intolerant of that acute sorrow, that intense mental anguish and deep remorse which may be defined as…

— Edward Hirsch

Globalization means we have to re-examine some of our ideas, and look at ideas from other countries, from other cultures, and open…

— Herbie Hancock

If it were felt that the free development of individuality is one of the leading essentials of well-being; that it is not…

— John Stuart Mill

The music is just so rich and part of the culture there. I suddenly felt like I needed to go on this…

— Harold Perrineau

All I've done is put into words what all of us are about. We're now at the archetypal stage of being ready…

— James Redfield

Products, profits, and paychecks are not enough anymore. These days, society cares how you treat your own workers. Customers want to know…

— Linda Rottenberg

Ethics cannot be based upon our obligations toward people, but they are complete and natural only when we feel this Reverence for…

— Albert Schweitzer

I don't think it is the most important thing. I think it is the fact that the director of national intelligence gave…

— Edward Snowden

I love the culture of animation. What stop-motion has in common with live-action is that it has many of the same departments.…

— Henry Selick

We are all creative, but by the time we are three of four years old, someone has knocked the creativity out of…

— Maya Angelou

I believe a constitution can permit the co-existence of several cultures and ethnic groups with a single state.

— Pierre Trudeau

Music crosses cultures and language barriers and it makes people feel good.

— John Seagall

I think there was, and there is, a real Commonwealth culture. It's different. America doesn't really feel to be a part of…

— Peter Carey

The surplus of society overrides all our traditions and shapes all our philosophies.

— Walter Weyl

The method of doubt must be applied to civilization; we must doubt its necessity, its excellence, and its permanence.

— Charles Fourier

“we can best understand the nature of this culture if we say that it found its truest mirror in a corpse”

— Salman Rushdie

Culturally Jewish, I was - and am - proud of my heritage, but don't practice religion.

— Gabe Kapler

“The magic to recruiting is going to where the people are, and the people are living on social media.”

— Mitch Gray

When you go to another country, you can work with different players in different situations, in a different culture.

— Roberto Mancini

“Tradition comes from something being so brilliant and such a good memory, that you try to recreate it every time that you…

— Lily Morton

Hendrix is one of the most revolutionary figures in today's pop culture, musically and sociologically.

— Frank Zappa

“The history of otaku culture is one of adaptation, of how to domesticate American culture.”

— Hiroki Azuma

Just because we live in an insane culture doesn't mean we have to be insane too.

— Geneen Roth

Good customers want good quality service. Great customers want it even more.

— Ron Kaufman

“Tradition, my boy, and superstition. They are one and the same, anyway.”

— Patrick Rothfuss

We cannot live by power, and a culture that seeks to live by it becomes brutal and sterile. But we can die…

— Max Lerner