Culture Quote by Robert A. Nisbet Download Open image ““Culture does not exist autonomously; it is set always in the context of social relationships.”” — Robert A. Nisbet ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.9 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Culture Social relationships
“What is culture? It’s a set of consistent patterns people follow for communicating, thinking, and acting, all grounded in their shared assumptions and values.” — Michael D. Watkins Copy Share Image
“It is often out encounter with culture that first reveals to us our own culture.” — Tim Chester Copy Share Image
“Culture is not enough, even though nothing is enough without culture.” — T.S. Eliot Copy Share Image
“When civilization is strong and widespread enough, "culture" will appear and take care of itself.” — John Lukacs Copy Share Image
“Culture, then, only truly becomes culture when it is embodied in someone.” — László Krasznahorkai Copy Share Image
“Every culture has its typical beliefs, norms and values, but these are in constant flux.” — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“Culture may even be described simply as that which makes life worth living.” — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
“Culture is the ability to store, exchange, and improve ideas.” — Peter H. Diamandis Copy Share Image
“A culture is strong when people work with each other, for each other. A culture is weak when people work against each other, for… — Simon Sinek Copy Share Image
“You can't have a cohesive society without a shared culture.” — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
“Culture does not make people. People make culture. If it is true that the full humanity of women is not our culture, then we… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
“The old laissez faire failed because it was based on erroneous premises regarding human behavior. As a theory it failed because it mistook for… — Robert A. Nisbet Copy Share Image
“I believe it was Napoleon who first sensed the ease with which, in modern society, the illusion of freedom can be created by strategic… — Robert A. Nisbet Copy Share Image
“Not the free individual but the lost individual; not Independence but isolation; not self-discovery but self-obsession; not the conquer but to be conquered; these… — Robert A. Nisbet Copy Share Image
“In a highly popular statement, we are told that the family has progressed from institution to companionship. But, as Ortega y Gasset has written,… — Robert A. Nisbet Copy Share Image
“A sense of the past is far more basic to the maintenance of freedom than hope for the future. The former is concrete and… — Robert A. Nisbet Copy Share Image
“The greatest intellectual and moral offense the modern intellectual can be found guilty of is that of seeming to think or act outside what… — Robert A. Nisbet Copy Share Image
“The historical emphasis upon the individual has been at the expense of the associative and symbolic relationship that must in fact uphold the individual’s… — Robert A. Nisbet Copy Share Image
“Other and more powerful forms of association have existed, but the major moral and psychological influences on the individual’s life have emanated from the… — Robert A. Nisbet Copy Share Image
“Marxism, like all other totalitarian movements in our century, must be seen as kind of secular pattern of redemption , designed to bring hope… — Robert A. Nisbet Copy Share Image
“We need a laissez faire that will hold fast to the ends of autonomy and freedom of choice; one that will begin not with… — Robert A. Nisbet Copy Share Image
“Genuine freedom is not based upon the negative psychology of release. Its roots are in positive acts of dedication to ends and values. Freedom… — Robert A. Nisbet Copy Share Image
“We may regard totalitarianism as a process of the annihilation of individuality, but, in more fundamental terms, it is the annihilation, first, of those… — Robert A. Nisbet Copy Share Image
What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions. Life is plurality, death is uniformity. By suppressing differences and… — Octavio Paz Copy Share Image
Philosopher is a dictator who modifies accepted standards with his thoughts. — Ilkin Santak Copy Share Image
A lot of indigenous cultures are deeply involved in working with ancestor spirits, elemental spirits, and demons. Many of these cultures feel that, if… — Daniel Pinchbeck Copy Share Image
In the hearing world, I'm constantly having to lip-read and trying to understand what's going on. Sign language is so beautiful. It gives you… — Rose Ayling-Ellis Copy Share Image
I was born and raised in Orlando, where the economy and culture has been powerfully shaped by tourism, and so I've long been interested… — Laura van den Berg Copy Share Image
Our times demand the declaration of the world's resources as the common heritage of all people. — Jacque Fresco Copy Share Image
The U.S.-Mexican border es un herida abierta where the Third World grates against the first and bleeds. And before a scab forms it hemorrhages… — Gloria E. Anzaldúa Copy Share Image
What it comes down to for me is this: Will the technologies of communication in our culture, serve to enlighten us and help us… — Roger Waters Copy Share Image
I think it's useful to experience other types of dance and other cultures, and the life of a classical dancer these days is certainly… — Deborah Bull Copy Share Image
In the movie, the stars above the ship bear no correspondence to any constellations in a real sky. Worse yet, while the heroine bobs...… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
It is not my intention to explain Turkey, its culture and its problems. My literature has a universal concern: I want to bring people… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
I don't think the distinction between high and low culture exists anymore. — Jeremy Scott Copy Share Image