Culture Quotes

"The commencement speech is not, I think, a wholly satisfactory manifestation of our culture"

"This call for a new culture is not a new idea"

"There is a tendency around the world today to copy TV culture. And that is not always a virtue"

"When a marriage culture fails, sexual desire no longer unites; instead it fragments"

"All of our forebears contributed to what South Africa has become. That does not, however, mean that I must apologize to anyone for being born a Zulu, or for having that culture"

"It is impossible to fuse totally with a culture for which you feel a measure of antagonism"

"Well, one hopes that if you're really related to the core of your particular culture, you have profound commitments to it, and that you are aware of how much you can strain it before you do violence to its essential nature"

"Every man who has shown the world the way to beauty, to true culture, has been a rebel, a 'universal' without patriotism, without home, who has found his people everywhere"

"I have made more friends for American culture than the State Department. Certainly I have made fewer enemies, but that isn't very difficult"

"Vision without power does bring moral elevation but cannot give a lasting culture"

"Well there is a lot of work here for younger and older musicians now. Our Ministry of Culture has now really embarked on changing things for artists, and it is getting much better. We just have to organize ourselves as artists, and then things will be better"

"Culture makes all men gentle"

"I lead no party; I follow no leader. I have given the best part of my life to careful study of Islam, its law and polity, its culture, its history and its literature"

"The mission of the press is to spread culture while destroying the attention span"

"Culture is the tacit agreement to let the means of subsistence disappear behind the purpose of existence. Civilization is the subordination of the latter to the former"

"They're not put on earth to be martyrs; they have to want to come out. It depends on your culture, where you work, where you live. Each person's circumstances are unique"

"A people without the knowledge of their past history, origin and culture is like a tree without roots"

"All objects, all phases of culture are alive. They have voices. They speak of their history and interrelatedness. And they are all talking at once!"

"The arts, as a reflection of human existence at its highest, have always and spontaneously lived up to this demand of plenitude. No mature style of art in any culture has ever been simple"

"The center of Western culture is Greece, and we have never lost our ties with the architectural concepts of that ancient civilization"

"I'd love to do a musical. I've been known to have a good step or two. I'm half Samoan, you know, and part of our culture is singing and dancing daily"

"Whoever controls the media, the images, controls the culture"

"Our culture, language, history, and values are vital to uniting us as a nation"

"If you take different mythologies from different cultures, the names may change and the story lines may vary but there is always something in common"

"So, I think the output of our innovation is great. We have a culture of self-improvement. I know we can continue to improve. There is no issue. But at the same time, our absolute level of output is fantastic"

"Great companies have high cultures of accountability, it comes with this culture of criticism I was talking about before, and I think our culture is strong on that"

"No people come into possession of a culture without having paid a heavy price for it"

"Not every religion has to have St. Augustine's attitude to sex. Why even in our culture marriages are celebrated in a church, everyone present knows what is going to happen that night, but that doesn't prevent it being a religious ceremony"

"It seems to me that, in every culture, I come across a chapter headed "Wisdom." And then I know exactly what is going to follow: "Vanity of vanities, all is vanity.""

"The highest possible stage in moral culture is when we recognize that we ought to control our thoughts"

"I can represent my culture while helping not only the Chinese-American community, but also the community at large"

"Chinese culture has a lot of virtues that are tremendously valuable to not only us as Asian-Americans, but also the world in general"

"Whether one is rich or poor, educated or illiterate, religious or nonbelieving, man or woman, black, white, or brown, we are all the same. Physically, emotionally, and mentally, we are all equal. We all share basic needs for food, shelter, safety, and love. We all aspire to happiness and we all shun suffering. Each of us has hopes, worries, fears, and dreams. Each of us wants the best for our family and loved ones. We all experience pain when we suffer loss and joy when we achieve what we seek. On this fundamental level, religion, ethnicity, culture, and language make no difference"

"I believe that in a great city, or even in a small city or a village, a great theater is the outward and visible sign of an inward and probable culture"

"Every aspect of Western culture needs a new code of ethics - a rational ethics - as a precondition of rebirth"

"Just in the past few years - since I've been making movies, which isn't a very long time - you now have a culture that is fascinated and informed about the box office in a way that sometimes filmmakers weren't even"

"Ancestor worship, or filial piety so characteristic of Asian cultures, for example, does not really resonate with Americans who favor children, not grandparents"

"The adequate study of culture, our own and those on the opposite side of the globe, can press on to fulfillment only as we learn today from the humanities as well as from the scientists"

"Culture is not a biologically transmitted complex"

"Respecting other people's cultures is well and good, but I draw the line at where some branches of Islam, what they do to women. It's indefensible"