Culture Quote by Christopher Ryan

“Or society places a supreme value on control -- hiding what you feel. Our culture mocks "primitive cultures" and prides itself on supression of…

— Jim Morrison

“Our culture mocks "primitive cultures" and prides itself on suppression of natural instincts and impulses.”

— Jim Morrison

“Culture is powerful because it redirects and shapes our behavior; its forces overpower individual intent and reject individual behaviors that are not acceptable or…

— Liz Wiseman

“Any culture which, in the interests of efficiency or in the name of some political or religious dogma, seeks to standardize the human individual,…

— Aldous Huxley

We must accept all the implications of our human inheritance, one of the most important of which is the small scope of biologically transmitted…

— Ruth Benedict

“Control creates domesticated animals. The purpose of society is to inspire humanity, not tame them”

— Devdutt Pattanaik

“We are being called upon to act against a prevailing culture, to undermine our own entrenched tendency to accumulate and to consume, and to…

— Lyanda Lynn Haupt

“We learn to restrain ourselves as we get older. We keep apart when we have quarrelled, express ourselves in well-bred phrases, and in this…

— George Eliot

“Our behavior to ordinary people depicts our actual nature”

— Sunday Adelaja

“Human history is the ancient story of the umbilical conflict between a lone individual versus a cabalistic society. A love-hate relationship defines our personal…

— Kilroy J. Oldster

“culture comes into play at precisely the point where biological individuals become subjects, and that what lies between the two is not some automatically…

— Stuart Hall

I take up the standpoint that the tendency to aggression is an innate, independent, instinctual disposition in man, and I come back now to…

— Sigmund Freud