Culture Quotes · Page 168

Forgive him, for he believes that the customs of his tribe are the laws of nature!

— George Bernard Shaw

Customs, traditions, laws should be flexible, within good reason, if that is what it takes to make our democracy work.

— John Lewis

“Excellence is a custom at the land of greatness, it drives our culture.”

— Anyaele Sam Chiyson

I learned music listening to Elvis' records. His measurable effect on culture and music was even greater in England than in the…

— Mick Fleetwood

The heart and soul of school culture is what people believe, the assumptions they make about how school works.

— Thomas J. Sergiovanni

Children are the same the world over. They may have a different culture, but an ache or a laugh is universal.

— Danny Kaye

Culture means the perfect and equal development of man on all sides.

— John Burroughs

“A conscience is a self-reproaching program that is installed in us, not by nature, but by our culture.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

It is one of the benchmarks of a culture I always think – the page at which it operates. A good way…

— Sara Sheridan

“In Kinvara, poor as we were, and unstable, we at least had family nearby, people who knew us. We shared traditions and…

— Christina Baker Kline

I think Ancelotti really likes London and he likes the way football is played over here. That doesn't surprise me because, after…

— Gianfranco Zola

...quality of life lies in knowledge, in culture. Values are what constitute true quality of life, the supreme quality of life, even…

— Fidel Castro

Men are thinking, writing, and creating, because women were pouring their energy into those men; women are not creating culture because they…

— Shulamith Firestone

I think culture and art tell you what the soul of a nation is, and if we continue to chip away at…

— Lesley Sharp

At Warby Parker, we use the survey platform Culture Amp to take employee engagement surveys that help us become ultra-responsive to the…

— Neil Blumenthal

We [Americans] are a football-baseball-basketball-golf culture with some ocassional forays into tennis and less often the winter sports.

— Michael Wilbon

“In many ways politics follows culture. As ancient Greek musician Damon of Athens said, ‘Show me the lyric of a nation and…

— David Kinnaman

How can we expect young people to be rooted in things such as character, morality and honesty? How is one supposed to…

— David Brooks

But one thing that seems pretty clear when we look at human religion is that it's highly tied in with human culture.…

— Hal Whitehead

Even when writing your own poems, you need to talk to people; you need to magpie around, getting words and things. I'm…

— Alice Oswald

You feel like telling him you're not single in the way that he thinks you're single. After all, you have yourself. I…

— Sloane Crosley

We are trying our best to spread the culture of Punjabi music all over the world. With the traditional rigid Punjabi music,…

— Guru Randhawa

It's great to see part of my culture doing so well in the sport that I'm involved in, a sport that I…

— Chris Algieri

In the '80s, we were living in the U.S.S.R., where anti-Semitism was a deeply ingrained part of the culture. Being a Jewish…

— Milana Vayntrub

You're safe because you're so trapped inside your culture. Anything you can conceive of is fine because you can conceive of it.

— Chuck Palahniuk

“What was civilization ever, really, but the attempt by man to talk himself into being good?”

— Stanisław Lem

“We live in a culture eager to make truth a boutique experience as malleable as our personal tastes require.”

— Charles J. Chaput

Maybe we don’t recognize satisfaction because it is disguised as radical generosity, a strange misnomer in a consumer culture.

— Jen Hatmaker

For the most part, Americans speak of culture and politics as if they were two separate realms.

— Ellen Willis

We know a culture doesn't just happen; it is the result of what you do every day.

— Ron Williams

In the Middle East, the conflict today is a matter of generations and not of cultures.

— Shimon Peres

I think the culture can absorb so many people writing poetry and trying to earn their living in poetry.

— Edward Hirsch

I have fans from different cultures coming up to me saying that they don't understand what I'm singing but that they like…

— Prince Royce

The attempted professionalization of serious and systematic thinking has had a disastrous effect upon our culture

— Alasdair MacIntyre

I make no claim that Jewish culture is superior to other cultures or that the Jewish song is better than the song…

— Theodore Bikel

When you start dictating culture, money gets involved and people take notice.

— Leigh Bardugo

“By acquiescing in an act that causes such suffering to a living creature, who among us is not diminished?”

— Rachel Carson

If I had to characterize one quality as the genius of feminist thought, culture, and action, it would be the connectivity.

— Robin Morgan

Testimonials describe what has been, and are a promise of what is to come.

— Ron Kaufman

I don't know a lot about my Jamaican heritage, so I relish any opportunity to learn about Caribbean culture.

— Karla Crome