Best Cultural Quotes
1136 Cultural quotes by 897 unique authors
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The rapidly evolving global economy demands a dynamic and creative workforce. The arts and its related businesses are responsible for billions of dollars in cultural…
— Unknown Author
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Both biological and cultural diversity are now severely threatened and working for their preservation is a critical task.
— Murray Gell-Mann
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I am convinced that we will never build a democratic state based on rule of law if we do not at the same time build…
— Vaclav Havel
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Great cultural changes begin in affectation and end in routine.
— Jacques Barzun
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We need a name for the new replicator, a noun that conveys the idea of a unit of cultural transmission, or a unit of imitation.…
— Richard Dawkins
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People who alter or destroy works of art and our cultural heritage for profit or as an exercise of power are barbarians.
— George Lucas
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Commercial jazz, soap opera, pulp fiction, comic strips, the movies set the images, mannerisms, standards, and aims of the urban masses. In one way or…
— C. Wright Mills
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As the organized Left gained cultural power, it turned into a monster that found perpetual victimhood, combined with thought and speech control, the most efficient…
— Tammy Bruce
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Power, after all, is not just military strength. It is the social power that comes from democracy, the cultural power that comes from freedom of…
— Edward Said
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In the gospel message, the beginning of change occurs in the heart of each individual. This heart change makes a difference in the home, then…
— Ravi Zacharias
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Christianity is not a political theory. It is not even a cultural theory. It is, at its root, all about changing the heart of each…
— Ravi Zacharias
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Science can give us only the tools in the box, these mechanical miracles that it has already given us. But of what use to us…
— Frank Lloyd Wright
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A first grader should understand that her or his culture isn't a rational invention; that there are thousands of other cultures and they all work…
— Kurt Vonnegut
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Science is intimately integrated with the whole social structure and cultural tradition. They mutually support one other-only in certain types of society can science flourish,…
— Talcott Parsons
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The fateful question for the human species seems to me to be whether and to what extent their cultural development will succeed in mastering the…
— Sigmund Freud
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I don't think these women are stupid. I think they're selling a personality that's very marketable: Wouldn't it be fun if we were all gorgeous…
— Reese Witherspoon
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All of us in the academy and in the culture as a whole are called to renew our minds if we are to transform educational…
— Bell Hooks
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As I have stood in the crosshairs of those who target Second Amendment freedoms, I've realized that firearms are not the only issue. No, it's…
— Charlton Heston
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The proclamation of the Gospel remains the primary service that the Church owes to humanity, to offer the salvation of Christ to the man of…
— Pope Benedict XVI
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A criminal trial is like a cultural in-flight test in which society projects its own history, fears, impatience, insolence, clemency, insecurities, dreams and nightmares upon…
— Ron Franscell
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We should be in the business of protecting cherished institutions and our cultural heritage, otherwise what, I ask, is a Conservative party for? Indeed we…
— Edward Leigh
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I think of art as a glue, a cultural and social glue. It's one of the means that has served to show us the things…
— Eric Fischl
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The next 10 to 20 years will bring Native cultural expressions to the body of Christ that will be a tremendous blessing to many.
— Richard Twiss
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Intellectual and cultural freedom is the most important single precondition for the breakdown of the kinds of tyrannical and totalitarian systems that periodically threaten us.
— James H. Billington
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Art is to me the glorification of the human spirit, and as such it is the cultural documentation of the time in which it is…
— Hans Hofmann
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