Culture Quotes

"There's a general culture in this country to cut all the trees. It makes me so angry because everyone is cutting and no one is planting"

"It would be good for us Africans to accept ourselves as we are and recapture some of the positive aspects of our culture"

"What 'multiculturalism' boils down to is that you can praise any culture in the world except Western culture - and you cannot blame any culture in the world except Western culture"

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

"Company cultures are like country cultures. Never try to change one. Try, instead, to work with what you've got"

"I'm always uneasy with messages. I think if there is a message, it's about taking control of your life. Not becoming a victim. Be true to yourself. In essence it's about love in the drug culture"

"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"

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

"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"

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

"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!"

"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 rapprochement of peoples is only possible when differences of culture and outlook are respected and appreciated rather than feared and condemned, when the common bond of human dignity is recognized as the essential bond for a peaceful world"

"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"

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

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

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

"Culture makes all men gentle"

"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"

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

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

"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"

"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"

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

"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"

"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"

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

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

"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"

"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"