Culture Quotes · Page 176

This is a good thing, mixing culture to make something new, something no one has ever seen. This is kind of a…

— Hiroyuki Sanada

“The moment you give up your principles, and your values, you are dead, your culture is dead, your civilisation is dead. Period.”

— Oriana Fallaci

I feel like being into the beat of your own drum has become too prominent in the culture.

— Mos Def

We have not yet realized that the Indian and his culture were fundamental to the growth of Canadian institutions.

— Harold Innis

For immigrant families, television is what connects you to American culture, but it's also what makes you feel like an outsider.

— Nahnatchka Khan

Education means to bring out wisdom. Indoctrination means to push in knowledge.

— Dick Gregory

Race wasn't an issue. My family was French, but Yorkville was a melting pot of races and cultures.

— Bob Cousy

“When civilization is strong and widespread enough, "culture" will appear and take care of itself.”

— John Lukacs

Contribute to charitable projects like the printing of spiritual books so that they can be sold at a lower price. Poor people…

— Mata Amritanandamayi

I grew up in a dictatorship, where you couldn't talk about difficult situations - there was this culture of silence. We would…

— Julia Alvarez

People without imagination are beginning to tire of the importance attached to comfort, to culture, to leisure, to all that destroys imagination.…

— Raoul Vaneigem

I wanted to try to create characters that happen to be Asian but who are pretty different from those we generally see…

— Adrian Tomine

For any country that has multiple cultures, food is an awesome way for people to acknowledge and respect each other and have…

— Jock Zonfrillo

Our forefathers had civilization inside themselves, the wild outside. We live in the civilization they created, but within us the wilderness still…

— Tom C. Clark

Film, you get to go to other locations and live the culture for a little while. You also form a strong bond…

— Matt Lanter

In the hearing world, I'm constantly having to lip-read and trying to understand what's going on. Sign language is so beautiful. It…

— Rose Ayling-Ellis

There are 60 million generators in Nigeria. The generator owners and distributors have a strong incentive to not encourage the distribution of…

— Jacqueline Novogratz

When the uncultured man sees a stone in the road it tells him no story other than the fact that he sees…

— Elisha Gray

Feminism is nothing but equality, and actually, feminism benefits men because it liberates us and it releases us from many stigmas imposed…

— Edgar Ramirez

Big Pharma needs sick people to prosper. Patients, not healthy people, are their customers. If everybody was cured of a particular illness…

— James Morcan

“I had only some dim and unformed sense, a sense which struck me now and then, and which I could not explain…

— Joan Didion

Rich people, they stay out of jail not just because they have more money but because they grew up in a culture…

— Immortal Technique

Everything is deeply affected by the dominant culture. Consumerism is huge in the US. This is by far the wealthiest [nation], but…

— Wangechi Mutu

“…though he hated to admit it, they were all Anglophiles. They were a family of Anglophiles. Pointed in the wrong direction, trapped…

— Arundhati Roy

Fat people are so rarely included in visual culture that fat is perceived as a blot on the landscape of sleek and…

— Susie Orbach

To me, I learned along the way, you know, culture is behavior. That's all it is; culture is people's behaviors.

— Ginni Rometty

People need to understand, we can come together as a nation; we can create a culture of life.

— Mike Pence

There's never been a culture without poetry in the history of the world.

— Edward Hirsch

In our 21st-century celebrity culture, we seem to demand an all-or-nothing verdict on any departing figure of public stature.

— Tom Tancredo

Custom, that unwritten law, By which the people keep even kings in awe.

— Charles Davenport

The Mind that lies fallow but a single Day, sprouts up in Follies that are only to be killed by a constant…

— Joseph Addison

I think American audiences like gangster movies. It's part of the culture.

— Vincent Cassel

When I was a child, our whole family cooked. All my cousins cooked. All my aunts and uncles cooked. It was part…

— Mario Batali

Without exception, the dominance and coherence of culture proved to be an essential quality of the excellent companies.

— Tom Peters

I don't think about the money side. I just think about how I can create a culture of winning.

— Penny Hardaway

I think I was obsessed with the culture of riding. I got sick of having to date guys who rode motorcycles for…

— Katee Sackhoff

“A culture of vultures steeped and born of violence shall choke on the blood of its offspring.”

— T.F. Hodge

The global view of cultures is part of my nature. I want to break down the walls between genres, categories, or cultures.

— Ryuichi Sakamoto

“What history gives us leaves upon us, on the contrary, the impression of decadence rather than of an advancing civilization.”

— Herman Bavinck

But the idea that women can't take care of themselves still permeates our culture.

— Katherine Dunn