Culture Quotes · Page 196

Putting our ecosystem in great peril is certainly not a part of Chinese culture that I know.

— Yao Ming

I think where traditional values are concerned, Chinese people see nature as very symbolic. It's a form of culture.

— Ma Yansong

Everything the Beats stood for was the opposite of the dominant culture today.

— Lawrence Ferlinghetti

If you haven't given them your trust, you haven't given them enough.

— Ron Kaufman

This clash of the culture, East and the West, us and them, Muslim and Christian, does not exist.

— Marjane Satrapi

Listen: our culture is saturated with irony whether we know it or not.

— Barbara Kruger

No revolution creates a wholly new universe. Rather, it reflects the history and culture that spawned it.

— Lillian B. Rubin

To me, it doesn't feel like it's just another rock record that somebody put out. It feels like we taped into the…

— Billie Joe Armstrong

I know what it feels like to be in that middle and lower-middle class, and feel like the culture is passing you…

— George Saunders

Music and art and culture is escapism, and escapism sometimes is healthy for people to get away from reality. The problem is…

— Chuck D

Regan has been amused, in the intervening years, to watch editors who rolled their eyes at Limbaugh scramble to try to duplicate…

— Judith Regan

A culture that denies death inevitably becomes shallow and superficial, concerned only with the external form of things. When death is denied,…

— Eckhart Tolle

If you want to appeal to people of different languages and cultures, you have to move toward tropes that are universally recognized.…

— Tim Parks

Although, okay, in Scotland, the boys wear the skirts. But as far as pop culture, women were on the forefront of the…

— will.i.am

Both my parents were migrant workers who came to the U.K. in the Fifties to better themselves. The culture I grew up…

— Sanjeev Bhaskar

I found it to be kind of ironic, because I’m white, therefore I’m appropriating culture, but then Eminem won it - who’s…

— Iggy Azalea

I know now that I began writing in a country where the word 'woman' and the word 'poet' were almost magnetically opposed.…

— Eavan Boland

The realizations of anarchist ideas and practices are like sociopolitical ecosystems. Local versions resemble each other, but they are endlessly adaptive and…

— Scott Crow

Ko Un's poems evoke the open creativity and fluidity of nature, and funny turns and twists of Mind. Mind is sometimes registered…

— Gary Snyder

Everybody has culture, even white people have culture, but its different with me. So in high school, I was hanging out with…

— Logic

The best people in a dying culture are the outcasts considered crazy by the leaders; the ones most disillusioned with their own…

— Brad Blanton

Old customs are easy to forget with the flashing of events in our lives. Easy to forget, like the heavy clothing we…

— Craig Childs

“The culture of the future will be one that will not involve the aristocracy, peasants, merchants or ownership of land, for these…

— VD

I never had any other desire so strong, and so like covetousness, as that ... I might be master at last of…

— Abraham Cowley

England, a happy land we know, Where follies naturally grow, Where without culture they arise, And tow'r above the common size.

— Charles Churchill

I think cross-cultural dialogue is something that has hugely impacted the richness of the culture of our world.

— Anoushka Shankar

I love learning about all the cultures around the world, and I also love sharing my own.

— Jackson Wang

In the West, we have been withdrawing from our tradition-, religion-, and even nation-centred cultures.

— Jordan Peterson

“Seattle is for people who love culture, but refuse to sacrifice their wild nature to attain it.”

— Kimberly Kinrade

Charity is one of those remarkable words that helps to identify the fault lines of a culture.

— Janet Poppendieck

I bet one legend that keeps recurring throughout history, in every culture, is the story of Popeye

— Jack Handey

The Jews are trying to destroy all other cultures...as a survival mechanism...the only Nazi country in the world is Israel.

— David Duke

I'm a pop victim. I love pop music; I love pop culture. I love Olivia Newton-John.

— RuPaul

The United States - and Vermont in particular - has a history of welcoming people of all cultures and backgrounds.

— Phil Scott

Culture is invited to the table usually only as raw material that needs no analysis.

— Elliott Colla

I'm content to stand on tradition. I'm even more content to wipe my feet on it.

— Aaron Allston

In this land of the Ganga (Varanasi), there was education of culture. But, more importantly, there was a culture of education.

— Narendra Modi

The customs and fashions of men change like leaves on the bough, some of which go and others come.

— Dante Alighieri

I'm interested in the history of ideas and how these ideas take on flesh and influence culture, and the church.

— Kevin Vanhoozer

Learn that you can stand up for who you are, stand up for your heritage and be proud.

— Patty Mills