Culture Quotes · Page 170

I'm trying to trick people into thinking about the unthinkable by using pop culture images.

— John Shirley

One thing we don't have in Italy is the culture of Chinese, Indian, French and Thai food.

— Gino D'Acampo

People can defame anyone they like, people can write anything they like. But non-accountability is a part of modern Indian culture.

— Salman Khurshid

Often we don't notice the stringent rules to which our culture subjects us.

— Sara Sheridan

The commencement speech is not, I think, a wholly satisfactory manifestation of our culture.

— John Kenneth Galbraith

Sales-driven cultures can really differentiate you from the majority of the competition.

— Josh James

Teachers are the ministers and priests of culture, its practitioners and its emissaries.

— Tom Paulin

Culture is our nature, and the ability to learn and change is our most important and fundamental instinct.

— Alison Gopnik

The favorite device of the devil, ancient and modern, is to force a human being into a more or less artificial class,…

— W. E. B. Du Bois

The Koran was revealed at a time of great change in the Arab world, the seventh-century shift from a matriarchal nomadic culture…

— Salman Rushdie

One of my key realizations about happiness, and a point oddly under-emphasized by positive psychologists, given its emphasis in popular culture, is…

— Gretchen Rubin

The tendency to aggression is an innate, independent, instinctual disposition in man... it constitutes the powerful obstacle to culture.

— Sigmund Freud

For the developed world, there is a choice to be made: to promote economic policies that despoil indigenous lands or to support…

— Paul Hawken

The whole world is run on bluff. No race, no nation, no man has any divine right to take advantage of others.…

— Marcus Garvey

Gawking at one-time celebrities who, for whatever reason, end up performing jobs our culture deems a mark of failure is gross, but…

— S.E. Cupp

“Two objects cannot occupy the same space at the same time. We've never quite made peace with that in the theater---set designer…

— Barbara Isenberg

I think the public library system is one of the most amazing American institutions. Free for everybody. If you ever get the…

— David McCullough

Our culture is obsessed with youth because we have lost the ancient knowledge that growth never stops. We are not transient, momentary…

— Eben Alexander

This might be a controversial thing to suggest, but in a quest to understand and relate to terrorism or school shootings, sometimes…

— Andrew Bird

World War II vets in general didn't talk about their experiences. They believed there was something better and that they were going…

— Michele Norris

So the conclusion that I reach, visa vie the individual and civilization, is this: Culture is not our friend. Culture is not…

— Terence McKenna

“There were hundreds of worlds like it, most of them littered with the usual Elder Culture ruins, the usual secrets waiting to…

— Paul McAuley

Especially for those of us living in the Western culture, death to a large extent is still a taboo subject. It's considered…

— Eckhart Tolle

“The people who carried the Catholic faith forward in history, who made the culture of beauty, music, art, and architecture rooted in…

— Paul Scalia

The tango is really a combination of many cultures, though it eventually became the national music of Argentina.

— Yo-Yo Ma

Probably all cultures, certainly Western culture, always have been violent.

— Leonard Cohen

I strongly believe cinema is popular culture. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. That's life.

— Michel Hazanavicius

The Negro revolt is not aimed at winning friends but at winning freedom, not interpersonal warmth but institutional justice.

— John Henry Cox

Invest in creating the right culture and you won't be disappointed in the results.

— Kay Koplovitz

Architecture is a special kind of career that showcases the accumulations of culture, time, and history.

— Ma Yansong

I did have a feeling then that the culture of factuality was so dominating that storytelling had lost all its authority.

— E. L. Doctorow

The difference between a martyr and a cannon fodder is not far from the difference between a scout and a spy.

— Ilkin Santak

There's not a lot of room for thinking in popular culture; there's not a lot of room for being conflicted.

— Hozier

Culture is like the current of the ocean. Where has it taken your marriage?

— Ted Lowe

The most striking feature of contemporary culture is the unslaked craving for transcendence.

— Andrew Delbanco

Heritage will remain, first and foremost, a research institute dedicated to impeccable research and data-driven policy analysis.

— Jim DeMint

Well sometimes, culture can stifle talent, so you have to be careful.

— Monty Williams

Let's freak out gentiles with our incredibly weird and ominous Passover customs.

— Anonymous

By becoming mindful of our cultural programming, we can step out of it.

— Christiane Northrup

The idyllic mayhem of two cultures colliding just doesn't seem as funny anymore.

— Kris Kidd