Culture Quotes · Page 153

Tradition does not mean that the living are dead, it means that the dead are living.

— Harold MacMillan

What most people in our culture mean by being lovable is essentially a mixture between being popular and having sex appeal.

— Erich Fromm

“In my opinion, our health care system has failed when a doctor fails to treat an illness that is treatable.”

— Kevin Alan Lee

Ideas and not battles mark the forward progress of mankind. Individuals, and not masses, form the culture of the race.

— L Ron Hubbard

This history of culture will explain to us the motives, the conditions of life, and the thought of the writer or reformer.

— Leo Tolstoy

I want to contribute to the culture and keep great writers alive by telling the stories of their lives.

— Fred Kaplan

America has many cultures which makes it great, but it's difficult to create one strong identity.

— Lidia Bastianich

Legacy leaders are the only ones wiling to pay the price to fix a broken culture.

— Bill Hybels

The music industry is such a huge machine. There are still a lot of good people in it, but the character of…

— Robyn

The influence of modern physics goes beyond technology. It extends to the realm of thought and culture where it has led to…

— Fritjof Capra

“If all the world were Christian, it might not matter if all the world were educated. But a cultural life will exist…

— C.S. Lewis

An intelligent person feels guilty for downloading music without paying the musician, but they use this free-open-culture ideology to cover it.

— Jaron Lanier

I was born in Japan and moved to L.A. when I was six, and I grew up with Japanese culture. I was…

— Masi Oka

“The general air of insecurity and affection made it too easy for him to imagine these once-a-year fabulous creatures as the cubicle…

— charlie huston

You can't escape culture. You can learn about it. You can criticize it. You can try to move it slowly. But at…

— Adam Conover

“I believe that great cultures, like great people, recognize that making mistakes is part of the process of learning, and that continuous…

— Ray Dalio

There's a lot of creativity in the industry, but I don't necessarily think that the most creative DJs or producers are always…

— Flume

The United States has degenerated into a social order that is awash in public stupidity and views critical thought as both a…

— Henry Giroux

Well, when you're an immigrant writer, or an immigrant, you're not always welcome to this country unless you're the right immigrant. If…

— Sandra Cisneros

“The practice which obtains amongst the Americans of fixing the standard of their judgment in themselves alone, leads them to other habits…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

Florida is a place of unparalleled diversity of backgrounds, experiences and vision. It makes our culture unique, but it can also make…

— Jeb Bush

If these laws [in the Bible] belonged to any other ancient culture we would approach them very differently. We need not bother…

— Marilynne Robinson

The challenge for UNFPA is to help countries as we always have with no agenda of our own; with sensitivity towards unique…

— Thoraya Obaid

I grew up outside of Seattle, and have lived here my whole life, and I think that there is a culture of…

— Carrie Brownstein

“It was supposed to be people who died and cultures that lasted. Now it was the other way around. Something”

— Hugh Howey

Being from Australia, I've never even touched a gun. It's so not a part of our culture.

— Emily Browning

In a culture where profit has become the true God, self-sacrifice can seem incomprehensible rather than noble.

— Starhawk

Literature is a state of culture, poetry is a state of grace, before and after culture.

— Juan Ramon Jimenez

I would say that I put down a lot of the white American culture, and ways, and beliefs.

— Muhammad Ali

If we don't change our culture, the politics is going to migrate more and more to statism.

— Foster Friess

“learn to experience and learn to respect ,i love my culture and i respect it i m proud to be Xhosa”

— Saziso Lucas

If you have a culture of respect, creativity flows. You create this energy, and then people have more desire to take risks.

— Marco Bizzarri

It the proof of high culture to say the greatest matters in the simplest way.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

As women, and as people, we're often forced to choose between pop culture and tearing down celebrities or a show about politics.

— Iliza Shlesinger

Growing up in the church in West Virginia, faith is always there. It's part of the fabric of the culture.

— DeVon Franklin

Isis want to destroy the knowledge that Islam is a beautiful, scientific and intelligent culture, and we are way ahead of them.

— Frankie Boyle

Contemporary culture is like the weather - we have to be open to it. I don't like the way it is dismissed…

— Amanda Harlech

What the public wants is called 'politically unrealistic.' Translated into English, that means power and privilege are opposed to it.

— Noam Chomsky

I hope that we have a culture that values every human life from the moment of conception to the moment of natural…

— Ted Cruz

Civilization is the distance man has placed between himself and his excreta.

— Brian Aldiss