Culture Quotes · Page 149

I think that cultural influence is very deep, it is not on the surface and this is true in every culture.

— Michael Craig-Martin

We must recognize what in our accepted tradition is damaging to our fate and dignity-and shape our lives accordingly.

— Albert Einstein

It is a sure sign that a culture has reached a dead end when it is no longer intrigued by its myths.

— Greil Marcus

Our culture has changed. It has become more violent. People are literally afraid to go to the movies or to school.

— Patty Judge

Culture is a collaborative exercise, and I think everybody will do their bit to help it grow.

— Grayson Perry

“The tradition of all dead generations weighs like a nightmare on the brains of the living.”

— Karl Marx

No civilization, no matter how mighty it may appear to itself, is indestructible.

— Niall Ferguson

The taming and domestication of religion is one of the unceasing chores of civilization.

— Christopher Hitchens

We read and hear a lot about the celebrity culture of football these days, but some people seem to believe that players…

— Robbie Savage

Experience supplies painful proof that traditions once called into being are first called useful, then they become necessary. At last they are…

— J. C. Ryle

Campaigning against religion can be socially counter-productive. If teachers take the uncompromising line that God and Darwinism are irreconcilable, many young people…

— Martin Rees

I have this whole theory that whether it's in your personal life or in your business life, you have to establish a…

— Mindy Grossman

“Modern American culture dictated the importance of touching the hand of someone you’ve just met, however counterintuitive it seemed. Why would he…

— Courtney Kirchoff

I don't think you can live without stress; I think the human life is stressful, and it probably always has been, although…

— Andrew Weil

Our culture's obsession with vintage objects has rendered us unable to separate history from nostalgia. People want heart. They want a chaser…

— Sloane Crosley

General jackdaw culture, very little more than a collection of charming miscomprehensions, untargeted enthusiasms, and a general habit of skimming.

— William Bolitho

Evolving our culture to operate and think differently is no small task. We are challenging our employees to be the best of…

— Denise Morrison

Student loans are destroying the imagination of youth. If there’s a way of a society committing mass suicide, what better way than…

— David Graeber

The new book is a result of my well-documented... absorption in Samurai movie culture. It's called 'The 47th Samurai: A Bob Lee…

— Stephen Hunter

I've found that no one complains about pop culture being a source of someone lecturing to them. If someone's telling you about…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

The process of schooling does not give birth to human beings - as education should but never will so long as it…

— Derrick Jensen

I'm not very nostalgic, you see. I just don't think anybody has that kind of thing anymore. By culture, by breeding, by…

— Manolo Blahnik

“Deception is the natural defence of the weak against the strong, and the South used it for many years against its conquerors;…

— W.E.B. Du Bois

We have this culture valued at Uber, which we call the champions' mind-set. And champions' mind-set isn't always about winning. It's about…

— Travis Kalanick

In a school where everyone is famous or rich or whatever, you have a culture, 'What does your dad do?' 'What does…

— Cynthia Nixon

It is confusing, because in this culture we really don't have anything that corresponds to geisha.

— Arthur Golden

Of course it is extremely difficult to like oneself in a culture which thinks you are a disease.

— Chrystos

The bottom line is a by-product of taking care of your main product - your customers.

— Ron Kaufman

Brand is really the connection between you and your customersif you have a very strong culture, then the brand will come through.

— Brian Chesky

I think my heritage makes me very open to try things, taking on different flavours, mixing it all up. I find that…

— Rachel Khoo

The Kennedy lifestyle is something that is looked upon favorably by the elites throughout our culture, both political and social.

— Rush Limbaugh

We have developed a culture in which we eat with our taste buds, not our brains.

— David H. Murdock

In the coming decades, questions of identity, meaning cultural heritage, language, and religion will play a central role in politics.

— Samuel P. Huntington

Eventually the revolutionaries become the established culture, and then what will they do

— Linus Torvalds

But foremost, I do not subscribe to the view that Islamic culture and democracy cannot be reconciled.

— Recep Tayyip Erdogan

“If there is no art, no culture, then what the fuck are we going to talk about? These are our stories and…

— Dave Hickey

There is a tendency around the world today to copy TV culture. And that is not always a virtue.

— Francis Arinze

When I started graduate school I was interested in the culture of the Civil Rights Movement.

— Bernice Johnson Reagon

People never talked about my music. They just counted how many knickers were on stage.

— Tom Jones

Preservation of one's own culture does not require contempt or disrespect for other cultures.

— Cesar Chavez