Culture Quotes

We are nothing but a link between our culture and what we can actually produce.

Would we be so enamored with dystopian fiction if we lived in a culture where violent death was a major concern? It wouldn't be escapism.

We do not birth our children into the world of nature. We birth our children into the world of culture.

The chief function of the city is to convert power into form, energy into culture, dead matter into the living symbols of art, biological reproduction into social creativity.

When Punk Rock happened, it created an opening in the culture... it made it ok to think you could play music, even though you had no musical training.

One has to understand what the enemy is all about: the enemy's history, the enemy's culture, the enemy's aspirations. If you understand these well, you can perhaps move towards peace.

Don't let the culture influence your message, let your message influence the culture.

Art is what we do. Culture is what is done to us. A photograph of an art object is not the art object. An essay about an artist's work is not the artist's work.

More and more, in any company, managers are dealing with different cultures. Companies are going global, but the teams are being divided and scattered all over the planet.

The arts and humanities teach us who we are and what we can be. They lie at the very core of the culture of which we're a part.

In the latter half of the last century the impact of the expanding influence of Western culture and economic system brought about in China a severe conflict.

The deeper I went into culture, the more confused I got. So I needed something more real. I said, "Okay, from now on, my country will be cinema."

That is true culture which helps us to work for the social betterment of all.

Whoever lives in whichever state should learn the culture of thestate and its language.

Launch your boat, blessed youth, and flee at full speed from every form of culture.

Because we have put ourselves in our own zoo, we find it difficult to break out.

Teens today rule the world. The whole culture - movies, music - is pointed at young people. They have so 'much' power.

A culture of discipline is not a principle of business, it is a principle of greatness.

The negative side to globalization is that it wipes out entire economic systems and in doing so wipes out the accompanying culture

We live in a culture where everything tastes good but nothing satisfies.

The way in which a group of people solves problems.

The secret to the city is integration. Every area of the city should combine work, leisure and culture. Separate these functions and parts of the city die.

You cannot trust people who have such bad cuisine. It [Great Britain] is the country with the worst food after Finland.

The truly cultured are capable of owning thousands of unread books without losing their composure or their desire for more.

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.

If the American Negro is to have a culture of his own he will have to leave America to get it.

It seems reasonable to expect that beauty will emerge from a fusion of the individual character and culture of the potter,with the nature of his materials.

That.s what Jazz music is all about.We started the Messengers because somebody had to mind the store for jazz.No America--no Jazz. It is the only culture that America has brought forth.

Ancient eschatological texts are actually maps of the inner territories of the psyche that seem to transcend race and culture and originate in the collective unconscious.

My tendency to idealize Western civilization arises from my nationalistic desire to use the West in order to reform China. But this has led me to overlook the flaws of Western culture.

Japan is not a Western democracy. The Japanese have kept their traditions, culture and heritage, but they have joined the community of free nations.

The Bible, however, was not created to be amended and altered with each passing culture.

Gujarat is all about Trade with Tradition, Commerce with Culture, Enterprise with Entertainment and Development with Disaster management.

More than half of modern culture depends upon what one shouldn't read.

Politics is chiefly a function of culture, at the heart of culture is morality, and at the heart of morality is religion.

Your culture is your brand.

The art world is now a slave of mass culture. We have a sound-bite culture and so we have sound-bite art. You look at it, you get it - it's as immediate and as superficial as that.

Nihilism is a natural consequence of a culture (or civilization) ruled and regulated by categories that mask manipulation, mastery and domination of peoples and nature.

The African-American community still needs to come together as one and stand up for rights of the people and of what's happening in their culture, their community.

The time has come to educate people, to cease all quarrels in the name of religion, culture, countries, different political or economic systems. Fighting is useless. Suicide.

Cultures are virtual realities made of language.

We need now to build a culture of genuine nonviolence and real democracy.

To recognize that some of the things our culture believes are not true imposes on us the duty of finding out which are true and which are not.

No occupation is so delightful to me as the culture of the earth, and no culture comparable to that of the garden.

I don't have to participate in another culture's ceremonies in order to respect that culture.

Jesus was a bachelor and never lived with a woman. Surely living with a woman is one of the most difficult things a man has to do, and he never did it.

More than any other product of human scientific culture scientific knowledge is the collective property of all mankind.

In our culture we have such respect for musical instruments, they are like part of God.

As a traveler, I've often found that the more a culture differs from my own, the more I am struck by its essential humanity.

I have friends who are majorly into the cosplay culture and have urged me to go to a convention for no other reason than to meet others like me.