Culture Quotes · Page 174

Many-sidedness of culture makes our vision clearer and keener in particulars.

— James Russell Lowell

I think once you understand a language, you understand the culture surrounding it as well.

— Petr Cech

We need to call sin what the Bible calls it and not soften it with modern expressions borrowed from our culture.

— Jerry Bridges

We spend so much time condemning, critiquing, and copying culture we miss on actually changing it. Be a creator not a hater.

— LeCrae

We are not taught to be thinkers, but reflectors of our culture. Let's teach our children to be thinkers.

— Jacque Fresco

Indians think it is important to remember, while Americans believe it is important to forget.

— Paula Gunn Allen

Sports culture has long been patriotic, tolerant of diverse backgrounds and perspective and celebratory of meritocracy.

— Jason Whitlock

We're supposed to be the people who make culture, not decorate culture.

— James Victore

What we call education and culture is for the most part nothing but the substitution of reading for experience, of literature for…

— George Bernard Shaw

Making of poetry, music, dance and art as culture-making in the service of nation-making. You can find writings that make that purpose…

— Mark McMorris

I'm glad I was faced with different cultures when I was growing up because I wasn't fazed by it. It has been…

— Jessie J

“What is even more astonishing is that the entire science of wayfinding is based on dead reckoning. You only know where you…

— Wade Davis

My whole shtick is that I want to contribute to New York's culture via restaurants, nightlife, whatever... but to be more conscious,…

— Hannah Bronfman

We have screwed with our environment. We have a culture that's going crazy, and it's all being propelled by the trillion-dollar advertising…

— Steve Miller

Even before Europe was united in an economic level or was conceived at the level of economic interests and trade, it was…

— Dario Fo

If we refuse to accept as inevitable the irresponsibility and educational unconcern of the adolescent culture, then this poses a serious challenge.

— James S. Coleman

Only in the Roman Empire and in Spain under Arab domination has culture been a potent factor. Under the Arab, the standard…

— Adolf Hitler

The confusion of spirit and body is quite understandable in a culture where spirit is concretized in magnificent skyscrapers, where cathedrals have…

— Marion Woodman

For an academic to launch a public conversation about journalistic integrity, the role of religion in society, scholarship and faith is a…

— Reza Aslan

“deluded or not, supporters of superstition and pseudoscience are human beings with real feelings, who, like the skeptics, are trying to figure…

— Carl Sagan

Escuela Caribe preyed upon parents' fears of secular culture to recruit students. Parents could send their kids to a place where they'd…

— Julia Scheeres

Civilization is social order promoting cultural creation. Four elements constitute it: economic provision, political organization, moral tradition, and the pursuit of knowledge…

— Will Durant

Man is more than his environment. It is from the innate quality of the Spirit in him, his inner storehouse, that he…

— Nilakanta Sri Ram

When members of a society wish to secure that society's rich heritage they cherish their arts and respect their artists. The esteem…

— Maya Angelou

To grow up in intimate association with nature - animal and vegetable - is an irreplaceable form of wealth and culture.

— Miles Franklin

At the basic consumer level, the profusion of fonts appeals to a culture that celebrates expressive individualism.

— Virginia Postrel

American culture is often so self-consumed that we often think that our problems are just our problems.

— Saul Williams

It would be good for us Africans to accept ourselves as we are and recapture some of the positive aspects of our…

— Wangari Maathai

“a single generation enamoured of foreign ways is almost enough in history to risk the whole continuity of civilization and learning.”

— Sister Nivedita

“There are many madnesses in every culture! All cultures need reason!”

— Mehmet Murat ildan

“Every culture has its typical beliefs, norms and values, but these are in constant flux.”

— Yuval Noah Harari

Mind severed from body, culture from planet- to lose our ground is to lose our home.

— Anodea Judith

The Russian people and Russian culture are the linchpin, the glue that binds together this unique civilization.

— Vladimir Putin

History is the heritage and patrimony of mankind in its lessons of the past that give priceless inspiration for the future.

— Henry Clausen

I don't separate architecture, design, or culture. What's more important is a language of creativity that carries meaning.

— Neri Oxman

What are other women really thinking, feeling, experiencing, when they slip away from the gaze and culture of men?

— Naomi Wolf

We want to understand what works here rather than what worked at any other organization.

— Laszlo Bock

Philosopher is a dictator who modifies accepted standards with his thoughts.

— Ilkin Santak

The mind that doggedly insists on prejudice often has not intelligence enough to change.

— Pearl S. Buck

The guys in New York don’t know the new media. San Francisco takes more risks as a culture.

— Larry Kramer