Culture Quotes · Page 40

“Dayton had no civilized culture.”

— Annie Jacobsen

Oh, it is all folly, madness, a crime against civilization.

— William Tecumseh Sherman

Popular culture is filled with girls.

— Juliana Hatfield

Wherever an altar is found, there civilization exists.

— Joseph de Maistre

It's our heritage: we Democrats, we dream a lot.

— James Carville

Human war has been the most successful of our cultural traditions.

— Robert Ardrey

Normality is the Great Neurosis of civilization.

— Tom Robbins

We compound our suffering by victimizing each other.

— Athol Fugard

You have these megabrands who make most of their money off hip-hop culture. Where were they in the time of need?

— Kerby Jean-Raymond

I don't like to play the macho card, but I grew up in a working-class family and a working-class culture.

— Tom Brokaw

Global coherence demands a permanent strategic cooperation culture at all levels.

— Antonio Guterres

All culture, all important culture, is always linked to how people express and experience being alive.

— Genesis P-Orridge

Parajanov's love for the folk culture is quite infectious. The way that he loves everything on screen, I relate.

— Robert Eggers

I believe that everyone deserves love, and sometimes looking outside your own culture is a good way to find it.

— Amy Dickinson

You don't stumble upon your heritage. It's there, just waiting to be explored and shared.

— Robbie Robertson

When a leader encourages the culture of impunity, the society is lost and it makes the work harder for the rest of…

— Wole Soyinka

Football fans share a universal language that cuts across many cultures and many personality types. A serious football fan is never alone.…

— Hunter S. Thompson

What we need in this country is a general improvement in eating. We have the best raw materials in the world, both…

— H. L. Mencken

“Maintain a belief system that admits that all things are possible for those responsible to have them done. It's nothing to deny;…

— Israelmore Ayivor

I don't know why people feel the need to do this to me, but my friend asked my dad, 'Aren't your proud…

— Jimmy O. Yang

Clearly, in every civilized culture since recorded history, marriage is always between a man and a woman. And the fact that we're…

— Jerry Falwell

We are, at almost every point of our day, immersed in cultural diversity: faces, clothes, smells, attitudes, values, traditions, behaviours, beliefs, rituals.

— Randa Abdel-Fattah

You have to put money in its proper perspective. The way it is positioned in the culture is like it is the…

— Jim Brown

Black women must challenge black men to live up to their best in every arena of the culture - at job, at…

— Michael Eric Dyson

A lot of native culture has been destroyed. So you already feel lost inside your culture. And then you add up feeling…

— Sherman Alexie

Belief in Some One's right to punish you is the fate of all children in Judaic-Christian culture. But nowhere else, perhaps, have…

— Lillian Smith

The solution of present-day problems lie in the re-establishment of a harmonious relationship between man and nature. To keep this relationship permanent…

— Sunderlal Bahuguna

All knives and forks were working away at a rate that was quite alarming; very few words were spoken; and everybody seemed…

— Charles Dickens

“What a peculiar civilisation this was: inordinately rich, yet inclined to accrue its wealth through the sale of some astonishingly small and…

— Alain de Botton

We thought [with Alix MacKenzie], if those are the kinds of pots from every culture that interest us, why would we think…

— Warren MacKenzie

The really interesting moment will be when you have a critical mass of people engaging through the networks, more than through the…

— Geoff Mulgan

Science starts with preconception, with the common culture, and with common sense. It moves on to observation, is marked by the discovery…

— J. Robert Oppenheimer

Science is too important not to be a part of popular culture.

— Brian Cox

Culture is not a surface phenomenon, it is our very care

— Edgar Schein

The family is the nucleus of civilization.

— Will Durant

I think culture is a big word for corporate character.

— Jensen Huang

We used to build civilizations. Now we build shopping malls.

— Bill Bryson

If you wait until you have to change, you may have waited too long.

— Ron Kaufman

He who does anything because it is the custom, makes no choice.

— John Stuart Mill

“Civilization lies in the mind, not in attire or books.”

— Abhijit Naskar