Culture Quotes

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.

Culture is like a smog. To live within it, you must breathe some of it in and, inevitably, be contaminated.

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

A culture is a total way of life. It embraces what people ate and what they wore; the way they walked and the way they talked; the manner in which they treated death and greeted the newborn.

Of the many forms of false culture, a premature converse with abstractions is perhaps the most likely to prove fatal to the growth of a masculine vigour of intellect.

We are all victims of culture.

The more intelligent our children, the better our lives and the richer our culture will be.

I'm not a policy maker. I'm not even a very great activist. My main thing is to make things that speak for the culture that I live in.

Bacteria: The only culture some people have.

What would America be like if we loved black people as much as we loved black culture?

The rewards system is a powerful driver of behavior and therefore culture.

I think our culture doesn't recognize passion, because real passion has the power to disrupt boundaries.

The diffusion of a universalist culture and of a pedagogy of peace appears more than ever to be the path that we must follow for the salvation of all nations on earth.

Unless we regain the art of silence and insight, the ability for nonactivity, unless we substitute true leisure for our hectic amusements, we will destroy our culture and ourselves.

Would you respect a God you could comprehend? And yet very often that’s what we want - a God who reflects our culture, our biases, our economic, political, and military systems.

War is not inherent in human beings. We learn war and we learn peace. The culture of peace is something which is learned, just as violence is learned and war culture is learned.

There's been an awful lot of silence in make culture about this ongoing tragedy of men's violence against women and children... we need to break that silence, and we need more men to do that.

I'm a little like Marco Polo, going around and mixing cultures.

Parents and educators need to establish a culture in which security and clarity of expectations are balanced with the encouragement of playfulness, inquisitiveness and self reliance.

Standing still is never an option so long as inequities remain embedded in the very fabric of the culture.

It's amazing how, age after age, in country after country, and in all languages, Shakespeare emerges as incomparable.

An army without culture is a dull-witted army, and a dull-witted army cannot defeat the enemy.

But a people unable to reform will not be able to preserve its old culture either.

If you go to Tokyo, I think it becomes very obvious that there's this almost seamless mixture of popular culture and Japanese traditional culture.

When we are young we are like a flowing river - and then we freeze.

We can aim to create a culture, where kids ask for healthy options instead of resisting them.

When men die, they enter history. When statues die, they enter art. This botany of death is what we call culture.

Culture opens our hearts to one another. And the currency in culture is not money, but trust.

A culture truly changes only when a new way of operating has been shown to succeed over some minimum period of time.

Hong Kong and Macau are both very dynamic cities. I am always inspired about the culture, people and food in these two cities. There is always so much to do and so much to explore!

For years all I seemed to be doing was lobbying politicians and others to persuade them that European culture needed movies, and that we had to protect it.

Maybe we don’t recognize satisfaction because it is disguised as radical generosity, a strange misnomer in a consumer culture.

How does contemporary technology and culture changes our understanding of what it means to be human. What is our relationship with - and responsibilities towards - that which we create.

Culture is not made up but something that evolves which is human.

You can't save the rhinos and you can't preserve a culture. I'm very pessimistic. Once it's gone, it's over.

Culture has never the translucidity of custom; it abhors all simplification. In its essence it is opposed to custom, for custom is always the deterioration of culture.

Each generation of the church in each setting has the responsibility of communicating the gospel in understandable terms, considering the language and thought-forms of that setting.

An ideal culture is one that makes a place for every human gift

If different cultures connect with each other, they are less likely to want to shoot each other.

Dying people in pre-industrial cultures typically died in the context of an extended family, clan, or tribe.

To call the police is a really big deal because you don't snitch - that's the culture you grow up in.

Black culture is cool, but black issues sure aren't, huh?

In this Western world that we have, culture risks being [only] a form of entertainment.

Glee is more then just a show now. It's become a wonderful culture celebrating the underdog and glorifying individuality.

Culture is one of the two or three most complicated words in the English language.

Our culture seems to believe that it's entertaining to teach women to be frightened.

Writing, printing, and the Internet give a false sense of security about the permanence of culture.

Houston is kind of a melting pot. There are many different cultures and ethnicities represented out there.

You do not know our culture, our ethics, or the unwritten codes that already provide our society more order than could be obtained by any of your impositions.

Globalization by the way of McDonald’s and KFC has captured the hearts, the minds, and from what I can see through the window, the growing bellies of the folks here.