Culture Quotes
Darwinism has become our culture's official creation myth, protected by a priesthood as dogmatic as any religious curia.
Until the culture recognizes the legitimacy of growing down, each person in the culture struggles blindly to make sense of the darkness that the soul requires to deepen into life.
The measure of a man's culture is the measure of his appreciation. We are ourselves what we appreciate and no more.
As a culture, we turn away from people just when they are in times of change. That's when most communities used to embrace people, so the individual and the culture both benefited.
Russia is a part of European culture. Therefore, it is with difficulty that I imagine NATO as an enemy.
Culture is the widening of the mind and of the spirit. It is never a narrowing of the mind or a restriction of the human spirit or the country's spirit.
I am convinced that the stratigraphic method will in the future enable archaeology to throw far more light on the history of American culture than it has done in the past.
I've always tried to insert consciousness and spirituality in my records, interpreting the writings of all cultures and religions and how they apply to life in modern times.
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.
It's no accident that my first novel was called Americana. This was a private declaration of independence, a statement of my intention to use the whole picture, the whole culture.
What a culture we live in, we are swimming in an ocean of information, and drowning in ignorance.
An adventurer can always return home; an exile cannot. So I decided that my home would be culture.
Christianity, sharing the Christian faith, in common, gives you instant friendship, and that is the remarkable thing, because it transcends culture.
Diversity creates harmony, and harmony creates beauty, balance, bounty and peace in nature and society, in agriculture and culture, in science and in politics.
If you see in any given situation only what everybody else can see, you can be said to be so much a representative of your culture that you are a victim of it.
In shamanic cultures, sychronicities are recognized as signs that you are on the right path.
Women gain social influence through their roles as mothers, transmitters of culture, and parents for the next generation.
We wish to fill our culture once more with the spirit of Christianity - but not only in theory.
When we began Starbucks, what I wanted to try to do was to create a set of values, guiding principles, and culture.
Acting school was summer camp, and I needed concentration camp. I had so many different ideas swirling between culture and how to tie things together.
I believe a constitution can permit the co-existence of several cultures and ethnic groups with a single state.
Unlike water or wine or even Coca-Cola, sweet tea means something. It is a tell, a tradition. Sweet tea isn't a drink, really. It's culture in a glass.
Everything I know about pop culture I know from 'The Simpsons,' and they say the Grammys aren't very good.
On a group of theories one can found a school; but on a group of values one can found a culture, a civilization, a new way of living together among men.
The origins of violence against women by men are not biological. If that were the case, it would exist in every culture. And it doesn't exist in every culture.
In this culture, God is not the highest entity; mukti or liberation is the highest goal. We are willing to use God as a stepping stone, if needed.
Culture (science) is the form of religion; Religion is the substance of culture (science).
I feel it is an obligation to help people understand the relation of food to agriculture and the relationship of food to culture.
What matters is this: Being fearless of failure arms you to break the rules. In doing so, you may change the culture and just possibly, for a moment, change life itself.
I believe in standardizing automobiles. I do not believe in standardizing human beings. Standardization is a great peril which threatens American culture.
I’ve come to the point of view that for European-American society and culture to persist requires a European-American majority, and a clear one at that.
The question was heatedly debated of how much Western culture should be brought into China.
Music and art and culture is escapism, and escapism sometimes is healthy for people to get away from reality. The problem is when they stay there.
What is it with this American booty culture? It seems to me to be a form of obsession.
I've always been fascinated by Asian culture, and I love that women can play the lead in a horror film.
Too much of the animal disfigures the civilized human being, too much culture makes a sick animal.
When a culture simply shrugs about what happens to people in war, it breaks the fragile sequence, the bond between all people.
Ninety nine percent of the time it's not urgent and to create a culture where you are constantly plugged in and expected to be always-on is to create a culture of burnout.
Once we get our corporate culture the way we want it, we have to hire people who fit. Otherwise, the wheels fall off the wagon and we quickly find ourselves back where we started.
We have much wisdom to gain by learning to understand other people's cultures and permitting ourselves to accept that there is more than one version of reality.
Accept yourself as you are. And that is the most difficult thing in the world, because it goes against your training, education, your culture.
A smart manager will establish a culture of gratitude. Expand the appreciative attitude to suppliers, vendors, delivery people, and of course, customers.
Cinema reflects culture and there is no harm in adapting technology, but not at the cost of losing your originality.