Culture Quotes · Page 159

The dominant culture in most big companies demands punishment for a mistake, no matter how useful, small, invisible...

— Tom Peters

“The tradition of past generations weighs like the Alps on the brains of the living.”

— Karl Marx

There's a difference between being culturally insensitive - being insensitive towards a culture - and being insensitive.

— Logan Paul

Every great culture has cared a lot, one way or another, about the fate of its girls.

— Caitlin Flanagan

Where is the society which does not struggle along under a dead-weight of tradition and law inherited from its grandfather?

— Suzanne La Follette

Yes, I am a Mexican, and I have a past and a culture. But what matters is the film itself, not where…

— Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

There is no Baltic identity with a common culture, language group, religious tradition.

— Toomas Hendrik Ilves

I've never been massive on rap, but there's that whole kind of culture of U.K. rap.

— MNEK

This man (FreddieMercury) truly possessed the greatest voice in the history of rock. Journalists, culture experts and analysts have already made several…

— Brian May

Doping in English football is restricted to lager and baked beans with sausages. After which the players take to the field, belching…

— Paolo Di Canio

If we want to change this culture of hate and bigotry, every one of us must stand up and speak with one…

— Tulsi Gabbard

Art has knowledge and skills, and to come to know them is to be implicitly against a culture that is against knowledge…

— Matthew Collings

The introduction of LSD and psychedelics into the culture produced a transformation of the entire culture, the consciousness of the culture.

— Ralph Metzner

You know, I love traveling and I love being exposed to different cultures, but really it's the people that I've met along…

— Amy Adams

What we call soul has been around a long time. It comes out of a particular culture that is African in origin,…

— Roy Ayers

When you look at traditions closely, examine what they really are, you realize they're made up of layers and layers of deferrals,…

— A. A. Gill

You have two kinds of shows on Broadway - revivals and the same kind of musicals over and over again, all spectacles.…

— Stephen Sondheim

A good many of my poems over the years have alluded to or taken on the political. Stevens has a line in…

— Stephen Dunn

Here we must distinguish between society and culture. A society can be interested in a man or woman only as a political…

— Laurence Boldt

China has been a textbook case of how the government did just enough intervention to increase penetration, but the reality is that…

— Michael Clarke Duncan

Women are presented with a very narrow aspect of the female narrative. And now we live in a culture and a time…

— Laura Marling

“As a fantasist, I well understand the power of escapism, particularly as relates to romance. But when so many stories aimed at…

— Foz Meadows

I don't think that the big crunch should be seen as a menace, but rather as an opportunity. It's one of these…

— Maurizio Cattelan

A child who can love the oddities of a fantasy book cannot possibly be xenophobic as an adult. What is a different…

— Jane Yolen

There is always change, bad customs pass and give way to better ones.

— Alfred Lord Tennyson

Even in high school, I was keenly aware of this remarkable tradition that the U.K. had of designing and making.

— Jonathan Ive

I like narrative storytelling as being part of a tradition, a folk tradition.

— Bruce Springsteen

We are creating a culture where content creators are a new servant class, and paid as such.

— Rosanne Cash

A less 'brainy-culture' would learn to synchronise its body rhythms rather than its clocks.

— Alan Watts

Company cultures are like country cultures. Never try to change one. Try, instead, to work with what you've got.

— Peter Drucker

“The mother was conflicted between what she knows that what's possible.”

— Brooke Hauser

At heart I'm a hip-hop kid and an R&B kid, but I've always had an appreciation for club culture and dance music.

— Jax Jones

Consumer culture needs us to be impulsive, while our political culture fears that we will ever develop discipline.

— Frankie Boyle

When we think of memetic culture, it is the 'sausage factory' of the old days.

— Christopher Poole

The history of modern culture is a history of popular entertainments evolving into art.

— Andrew Hoberek

“We no longer say, ‘It’s in their blood.’ We say, ‘It’s in their culture.’ Thus”

— Yuval Noah Harari

Protectiveness has often muffled the sound of doors closing against women.

— Betty Friedan

I don't like the ironic tone that our pop culture, in the world, has taken. Everything is 'ironic.' Everything is 'cool.'

— Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

We almost need a revolution in the culture of our thinking about football.

— Gary Lineker

The notion that Jews are mythic creatures is well circulating in our culture.

— Steven T. Katz