Culture Quotes · Page 179

The two main attributes of MindTree culture are high achievement orientation and high caring.

— Ashok Soota

We Europeans have a long tradition of cultural and economic relationship with Iran.

— Federica Mogherini

People who are aware of, and ashamed of, their prejudices are well on the road to eliminating them.

— Gordon Allport

“Civilization flows; culture thickens and coagulates, like tired, sick, stifled blood.”

— Edward Abbey

It's impossible not to be taken in by the spectacle of oneself, which is the biggest sin of the culture right now.

— Michael Tolkin

Cultural creatives take a stand for a more spiritualized, personalized, and integrated culture.

— Barbara Marx Hubbard

Different members of different cultures will think that some things are beautiful.

— Jock Sturges

“That boy is talented. You don’t develop those gifts in houses or in schools.”

— Sara Sheridan

The Church is missionary by nature and her principal task is evangelization, which aims to proclaim and to witness to Christ and…

— Pope Benedict XVI

Nature is busy creating absolutely unique individuals, whereas culture has invented a single mold to which all must conform. It is grotesque.

— Anonymous

I'm very sad to be compared with Warhol and The Factory, because I have no drugs, you know. We have no drug…

— Takashi Murakami

I think that anybody, once we leave Jamaica, automatically, any citizen becomes an ambassador for the flag, for Jamiaca. It's a country…

— Shaggy

“The study of the cultures of antiquity in general, and of ancient Egypt in particular, can serve to guide us out of…

— Jeremy Nadler

I do see myself as the heir to a vast, great, rich culture of painting - of art in general - which…

— Gerhard Richter

Relevance is a big, big question. It's more about what's your definition of being relevant. In the music world, agism is a…

— Larry Mullen, Jr

Stories--from the literature of our culture to descriptions of our days to the lunatic's ravings--appear to be hardwired into us. Even in…

— Michael Ruhlman

Dante Alighieri has the most glorious imagination of modern poetry. So it's talking about us, it's concerning us. Everything in it conveys…

— Roberto Benigni

Since I've been in this industry, it's been a constant fight; "Oh, he's white, he's Cuban." "He's tryin' to do hip-hop and…

— Pitbull

My position on the issue of homosexuality is no different from the position of the Anglican Church and all the major denominations…

— Nicky Gumbel

One of the things that helped me a lot as I was starting out in my career was that I got myself…

— Rick Tramonto

The whole Ireland was taken over by greed and materialism. It was extraordinary. The price of every house had skyrocketed. If you…

— Neil Jordan

I guess none of the sides of my hyphen are particularly subtle cultures. But perhaps there is also a sense that these…

— Porochista Khakpour

Powder snow skiing is not fun. It is life, fully lived, life lived in a blaze of reality. What we experience in…

— Dolores LaChapelle

For it is not light that is needed, but fire; it is not the gentle shower, but thunder. We need the storm,…

— Frederick Douglass

“Civilization, as it is often practiced today, is really manufactured, inauthentic civilization”

— Stjepan Mestrovic

Sexuality is the primary focus of our culture, and almost no one has come to resolve it.

— Frederick Lenz

The whole intent of Perl 5's module system was to encourage the growth of Perl culture rather than the Perl core.

— Larry Wall

The human animal varies from class to class, culture to culture. In one way we are consistent: We are irrational.

— Rita Mae Brown

The culture-heroes of our liberal bourgeois civilisation are ant-liberal and ant-bourgeois . . .

— Susan Sontag

“Coldest the remembrance of the wider ocean--wealth, caste, custom intervened between me and what I naturally and inevitably loved.”

— Charlotte Brontë

To liberate women and end violence is to break down the culture of power imbalance.

— Jess Phillips

It's not part of our culture to even think about outright purchasing a third-party developer.

— Satoru Iwata

Supporting Rangers, being in an Orange Lodge, that whole life - that's a valid culture.

— Frankie Boyle

Women and love are underpinnings. Examine them and you threaten the very structure of culture.

— Shulamith Firestone

Without meaning, without substance, without aim: a mere 'public opinion'.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“Traditions are seldom lies; traditions reflect people’s deepest beliefs and customs. They have their own truth,”

— Anne Rice

We regard witchcraft, as part of the mystery of our cultural heritage

— Steve Biko

The role of the federal government should be neutral toward culture just as it is toward religion.

— Preston Manning

I don't think the idea of homosexuality is really taboo any more. Our culture is evolving. This is an exciting time to…

— Andrew Lang

Culture is simultaneously the fruit of a people's history and a determinant of history.

— Amilcar Cabral