Culture Quotes · Page 197

The question is not whether we are able to change but whether we are changing fast enough.

— Theodore Isaac Rubin

In Japan, Australia, and England there is such a strong youth culture.

— Marc Newson

Tradition is no longer a continuity but a series of sharp breaks. The modern tradition is the tradition of revolt.

— Octavio Paz

A nation's culture resides in the hearts and in the soul of its people.

— Mahatma Gandhi

The youth of America is their oldest tradition. It has been going on now for three hundred years.

— Oscar Wilde

In the advance of civilization, it is new knowledge which paves the way, and the pavement is eternal.

— Willis R. Whitney

There's an ingrained mentality in our culture that women aren't as good. Other places, it doesn't exist.

— Rachel Riley

Life is a constant back-and-forth. We take a breath in and then we breathe out. The same is true for the culture…

— Marianne Williamson

When I go to Bali, when I come to India and travel and see different cultures. I make sure I'm involved in…

— Donna Karan

I don't like MTV, and I don't like the culture that goes with it. It's OK in very small doses, maybe. Nevertheless,…

— Seymour Papert

I've always just adored clothes and material things and the vanity of American pop culture and fashion. I just think it's so…

— Doechii

We live in a culture where people are self-centered and careerist and everybody seems to think they have too much on their…

— Marc Maron

Letting a hundred flowers blossom and a hundred schools of thought contend is the policy for promoting the progress of the arts…

— Mao Zedong

You have social media and the Internet and immigration and so, suddenly, cultures are clashing and people feel as if they're less…

— Barack Obama

I am really surprised bitcoin isn't more popular in India, given the strong gold culture here. I call it Gold 2.0. It…

— Brock Pierce

Throughout history, it took centuries for the habits of one culture to materially affect another. Now, that which becomes popular in one…

— Dee Hock

When I was at the CIA I asked my civilian advisory board to tackle some tough questions. Among the toughest: In a…

— Michael Hayden

“The more we claim to discriminate between cultures and customs as good and bad, the more completely do we identify ourselves with…

— Claude Lévi-Strauss

To know only one thing well is to have a barbaric mind: civilization implies the graceful relation of all varieties of experience…

— Robert Graves

There is one way to understand another culture. Living it. Move into it, ask to be tolerated as a guest, learn the…

— Peter Høeg

There's a rich family culture in South Central. The block that I grew up on, all the kids were best friends. They…

— Spencer Paysinger

'Environment' is not an abstract concern, or simply a matter of aesthetics, or of personal taste - although it can and should…

— Richard M. Nixon

In Europe there's kind of a reaction to the European Union, kind of a move towards some kind of regionalization. It's more…

— Noam Chomsky

As our kids are drawn into, you know, Facebook and twittering and having their own cell phone and iPod and all those…

— Alex Kendrick

The culture that's going to survive in the future is the culture that you can carry around in your head.

— Nam June Paik

Custom, though never so ancient, without truth, is but an old error.

— Cyprian

Toronto may be the only city where novels are integral to high art, the alternative scene and mainstream culture all at the…

— Stephen Marche

“Contentment can only be found in not envying others or comparing yourself to them but in being satisfied with what you have.”

— Larry Herzberg

I'm here to inspire young people to be part of the most magnificent culture on earth: hip-hop.

— KRS-One

Universities are the custodians not only of the many cultures of man, but of the rational process itself.

— Anonymous

A lot of what the 'Culture' is about is a reaction to all the science fiction I was reading in my very…

— Iain Banks

Around the world today people are spontaneously spawning a culture dedicated to creating conditions conducive to life.

— Kenny Ausubel

thanks to my friends for their care in my breeding, Who taught me betimes to love working and reading.

— Isaac Watts

Awards nights are a part of our modern culture; they're part of what we do.

— Asher Keddie

Politics is chiefly a function of culture, at the heart of culture is morality, and at the heart of morality is religion.

— Richard John Neuhaus

You have to stay true to your heritage; that's what your brand is about.

— Alice Temperley

“The cleanest civilization I’ve ever seen…and the number one thing you pack for a wedding is a jar of dirt?”

— M.A. George

I feel comfortable in places like London. You get many cultures in L.A. but it's strangely segregated.

— Sandra Oh

“for what is to be done is not for police or of the customs. It must be done by us alone and…

— Bram Stoker

I love having different cultures around, but when the parent culture kind of dissipates, you're left thinking, 'Well, what's going on?'

— John Cleese