Culture Quotes

Worship songs can't just be rooted in culture - they won't be deep enough. They have to be rooted in scripture.

I find that through the study of women, you get to the heart - the truth - of the culture.

The true aim of female education should be, not a development of one or two, but all the faculties of the human soul, because no perfect womanhood is developed by imperfect culture.

Listen: our culture is saturated with irony whether we know it or not.

Design my own line? No, I just like the culture.

The true foundation of all culture is the knowledge and understanding of water.

I didn't say that the Jews are inferior. I didn't even maintain they are a race. I merely saw that the mixture of different cultures didn't work.

The Law of Raspberry Jam: the wider any culture is spread, the thinner it gets.

Style is having the courage of one's choices and the courage to say no. It's good taste and culture.

The Program further aims to make the benefits of American culture and technology available to the world and to enrich American life by exposing it to the science and art of many societies.

Maybe that is why there are not a whole lot of problems between the church and worldly culture today, because we are not confronting the culture around us.

However muted its present appearance may be, sexual dominion obtains nevertheless as perhaps the most pervasive ideology of our culture and provides its most fundamental concept of power

In the black culture, certain kids are given nicknames that they roll with forever; the nicknames outweigh their real names. I'm one of those scenarios.

You can tell when you have crossed the frontier into Germany because of the badness of the coffee.

Seeing is more than a physiological phenomenon... We see not only with our eyes but with all that we are and all that our culture is. The artist is a professional see-er.

The greatness of a culture can be found in its festivals

Ignorance of how we are shaped racially is the first sign of privilege. In other words. It is a privilege to ignore the consequences of race in America.

Himmler wants to send an expedition to Tibet to look for ancient manuscripts on the Aryans. The man is like a little schoolgirl. What culture is there in an old jug, I ask you?

I believe that cuisine is the most important link between nature and culture.

The culture of comfort, which makes us think only of ourselves, makes us insensitive to the cries of other people.

Acceptance of race mixture was more developed in Arab culture than in Jewish culture.

I intend to end the something for nothing culture

Colleagues should take care of each other, have fun, celebrate success, learn by failure, look for reasons to praise not to criticize, communicate freely and respect each other.

The information highway will transform our culture as dramatically as Gutenberg's press did the Middle Ages.

Men are thinking, writing, and creating, because women were pouring their energy into those men; women are not creating culture because they are occupied with love.

The premise upon which mass compulsion schooling is based is dead wrong. It tries to shoehorn every style, culture, and personality into one ugly boot that fits nobody.

[M]odern society is indeed often, at least in surface appearance, nothing but a collection of strangers, each pursuing his or her own interests under minimal constraints.

Pro wrestling has always been ingrained into American culture. It was one of the first things that was ever on television, so everybody watched it.

Learning to take hold of one's life is very difficult in a culture that values property over life.

I don't believe there is a clash between cultures. I believe there is a clash between perceptions of each other.

Food is a central activity of mankind and one of the single most significant trademarks of a culture.

Society or culture or whatever you might want to call it, has created us all solely and wholly for the purpose of maintaining its continuity and status quo.

And a democracy can't exist without free speech and the right to assemble. And that's what Americans tend to forget. And they're born into a culture where they take all of their freedoms for granted.

To engage people in culture we must remember that holiness is separation from sin, not separation from sinners.

Basically, morphic fields are fields of habit, and they've been set up through habits of thought, through habits of activity, and through habits of speech. Most of our culture is habitual.

Hatred is something peculiar. You will always find it strongest and most violent where there is the lowest degree of culture.

How women view religion's role in society is shaped more by their own country's culture and context than one monolithic view that religion is simply bad for women.

It must be recognized that in any culture the source of law is the god of that society

The easier it is to do something, the harder it is to change the way you do it.

Just about every great, brave or beautiful thing in our culture was created by someone who didn't do it for money.

We've got 21st century technology and speed colliding head-on with 20th and 19th century institutions, rules and cultures.

Not only do we as individuals get locked into single-minded views, but we also reinforce these views for each other until the culture itself suffers the same mindlessness.

You got to be ready for everything in life

It all sounds almost silly, but the fact is that the only way to change a corporate culture is to just change it.

You're painfully alive in a drugged and dying culture.

I'm very sad to be compared with Warhol and The Factory, because I have no drugs, you know. We have no drug culture in Japan! Maybe it's because our attitude toward labor is totally different.

Cultural analysis is intrinsically incomplete. And, worse than that, the more deeply it goes the less complete it is.

Every child needs nature. Not just the ones with parents who appreciate nature. Not only those of a certain economic class or culture or set of abilities. Every child.

Bacteria: The only culture some people have.

The US bombed them back to traditional values – feminism does not exist in Japan. While I don’t like judging an entire culture…that does not excuse them.