Top 100 Culture Is Quotes
#1. Culture is the intersection of people and life itself. It's how we deal with life, love, death, birth, disappointment ... all of that is expressed in culture.
Wendell Pierce
#2. Our culture is an edifice built of externalized memories.
Joshua Foer
#3. You don't understand the basic assumptions of your own culture if your own culture is the only culture you know.
Alan W. Watts
#5. I like the idea of bringing cartoon characters to life ... and although the Americans have already attempted this, their culture is not sufficiently humane to make it work.
Gerard Depardieu
#6. Right now it feels like we're playing a role, like me and a couple of my friends, in where popular culture is going. That's a very rare thing in a person's life to be able to be a part of that. It's a responsibility I take seriously.
A-Trak
#7. The study of the past is the main portal through which culture is acquired.
Joseph Epstein
#8. I think gun culture is disgusting but people need to think about it before they start judging.
Lisa Maffia
#9. A steady diet of mass culture is a form of deprivation.
Pauline Kael
#10. Often, these downplay the power of cultural imperialism - in that sense, playing the game of US interests - by reassuring us that the global success of American mass culture is not as bad as all that.
Fredric Jameson
#11. Always, some great culture is dying to enrich the soil of new harvests, some civlization is crumbling to rubbish to be the hill of a more beautiful city, some race is spending itself that a lower and more barbarous world may inherit its stored treasure house.
George Edward Woodberry
#12. I think that the Japanese culture is one of the very few cultures left that is its own entity. They're just so traditional and so specific in their ways. It's kind of untouched, it's not Americanized.
Toni Collette
#13. I am increasingly convinced that technological culture is the entire root of women's liberation.
Lois McMaster Bujold
#14. Psychedelic experiences are beyond the reach of cultural manipulation, and discovering this and exploring it is somehow the frontier of maturity. Culture is a form of enforced infantilism. It's the last nursery, and most people never leave it.
Terence McKenna
#16. The reason to get in touch with the culture is not to adopt it but to engage it for the same reasons a missionary does ... to gain a hearing for the gospel.
Reggie McNeal
#17. Food culture is like listening to the Beatles - it's international, it's very positive, it's inventive and creative.
Alice Waters
#18. Aussie culture is pretty relaxed in general, but at the same time people know how to work really hard to go above and beyond what's expected of them.
Keiynan Lonsdale
#19. Our literary culture is marinated in deep traditions of the fantastic and the supernatural, and we export those rich qualities in films and books on a spectacular industrial scale.
Graham Joyce
#20. American culture is probably the least Christian culture that we've ever had because it is so materialistic and it's so full of lies. The whole advertising world is just, it's just intertwined with lies, appealing to the worst of the instincts we have.
Eugene H. Peterson
#21. Culture is a plot against the expansion of consciousness.
Terence McKenna
#22. Raising awareness about the Deaf culture is a huge cause that I advocate. Because both of my parents are deaf, I am passionate about it in an entirely different way.
Grace Gealey
#23. That vision of a common culture is now simply a remote wistfulness.
Dennis Potter
#24. Rape culture is a funny thing. People gloss over some pretty shitty, creepy, wrong behavior, little brother, when they know the person in question. But you raise the reality of what they're doing, and it's a whole lot harder to shrug it off.
Wildbow
#25. When women finally get liberated, they'll do the same that men do
dog eat dog
that's what our culture is ... Not cooperation but assassination. Women will cooperate until they attain certain goals. Then one will begin to destroy the other.
Alice Neel
#26. Culture is what people invent when they have lost nature.
Diane Ackerman
#27. The proliferation of new music groups and individual performers focusing on new music today is heartening. On the one hand the culture is very resistant to new things, and yet it continues to change and grow.
Michael Hersch
#28. A two thousand years old culture is being replaced by Arab Bedouin culture in the name of Islam. Cheegha, The Call is a lone voice against the threat to the tribal way of life, the ways of the fathers.
Ghulam Qadir Khan Daur
#29. Armed with the knowledge of our past, we can with confidence charter a course for our future. Culture is an indispensable weapon in the freedom struggle. We must take hold of it and forge the future with the past.
Malcolm X
#30. Life was cheap in the Middle Ages. It has become cheaper since. It is only in specific battles for specific lives that our culture is put to the test, and with it our humanity.
Peter Ustinov
#31. The paradigm of Western culture is that the essence of persons is dangerous; thus, they must be taught, guided and controlled by those with superior authority.
Carl R. Rogers
#32. Black culture is a fight. We want to hold on to what we are, but sometimes the things that we are can be totally negative. You have to think: can't we try something new and not be seen as suspect?
Donald Glover
#33. It is easy to see why a diversity of cultures should confront power with a problem. If culture is about plurality, power is about unity. How can it sell itself simultaneously to a whole range of life forms without being fatally diluted?
Terry Eagleton
#34. Our culture is not this thing to be seen from a distance. We need to be embracing the friction of it all - that is where the energy is.
Doug Aitken
#36. Toronto is actually way more fast-paced than L.A. - I find the fast-paced nature of Toronto a bit obtrusive. In L.A., I love getting up and going hiking and going to the beach - that's L.A. culture and it's awesome and I miss it. Toronto culture is wonderful, but I miss L.A.
Jordan Gavaris
#37. A healthy company culture is a set of norms and behaviors that support high performance and supports the team as they move towards ultimate success. Visit these norms regularly. Everybody visits them regularly, from the CEO to the Truck Drivers.
Beth Ramsay
#38. I think that, on the one hand, our audience, our culture is so savvy now to an assumption that teaser effects are not fully representative of the final product. But in the same breath, I would say there's no shot in the teaser that I'm not really happy with.
Shawn Anthony Levy
#39. Culture is not made up but something that evolves which is human.
Edward T. Hall
#40. If the culture is so all pervasive that you can't think outside of it, how are you making genuine choices?
Monica Ali
#41. Culture opens our hearts to one another. And the currency in culture is not money, but trust.
Yo-Yo Ma
#42. Without music, our culture is a poor and soulless place where people simply exist but cease to live.
Jennifer Coburn
#43. Culture is about the mindset of people, and we are very happy to have a strong combined mindset of people.
Uday Kotak
#44. Pop culture has entered into a nostalgic malaise. Online culture is dominated by trivial mashups of the culture that existed before the onset of mashups, and by fandom responding to the dwindling outposts of centralized mass media. It is a culture of reaction without action.
Jaron Lanier
#45. What we call education and culture is for the most part nothing but the substitution of reading for experience, of literature for life, of the obsolete fictitious for the contemporary real.
George Bernard Shaw
#46. Culture is a fibreglass condom suit - highly restrictive, uncomfortable and itchy as hell.
Merlyn Gabriel Miller
#47. The tendency in today's culture is to want to be a 'star', but I want to be a servant.
Jon Foreman
#48. Even in Japan, I don't think that the game culture is established. For example, my father will watch movies but games don't appear in his life at all, I think that that's sad.
Nobuo Uematsu
#50. Israel is a wonderful place to be an artist - a place where imagination flourishes. Israeli culture is refreshingly avant garde - making films, music, performance art and visual art that continues to push the envelope, inspire and empower.
Ryan Kavanaugh
#52. A great culture is recognizable through its artists and its saints and not by its GNP.
Walker Percy
#53. I think a lot of us are increasingly recognizing that the dominant culture is killing the planet.
Derrick Jensen
#54. If you watch wrestling, you now know the hip-hop culture is being represented with wrestling. For the longest time, the cultures have almost been parallel.
John Cena
#55. America is a country of abundance, but our food culture is sad - based on huge portions and fast food. Let's stop with the excuses and start creating something better.
David Chang
#56. Our culture is something that has sustained us for thousands and thousands of years and will continue to do so in generations to come.
Hetti Perkins
#57. Culture is collective mindsets, attitudes, and behaviors.
Pearl Zhu
#58. The cornerstone of the political correctness that dominates campus culture is radical feminism.
Phyllis Schlafly
#59. A culture is the sum of all the things about which humanity can choose to differ.
Brian Eno
#60. A living culture is a progressive culture. It not only allows change, but actively encourages it.
Merlyn Gabriel Miller
#62. A free culture is not a culture without property; it is not a culture in which artists don't get paid.
Lawrence Lessig
#63. 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?
Adolf Hitler
#64. Culture is a window reflecting the history, culture and spiritual world of a nation, .. Cultural exchange is a bridge to enhance the mutual understanding and friendship between the people of different nations.
Hu Jintao
#65. You know, urban culture is fun; it's lovely.
John Boyega
#66. When that truth of alien intervention in our planet's affairs and our ongoing contact with an alien culture is finally revealed, it won't be frightening even though it will be a shock.
Philip J. Corso
#67. Amish culture is built around preserving and protecting the family unit.
Serena B. Miller
#68. I think being central to the culture is overrated. Who really gives a damn if something is popular? Jay-Z isn't actually any better than James Joyce even though more people understand him.
Matthew Specktor
#69. No culture is without access to divine mysteries.
Andrea Cremer
#70. The epitome of culture is the search for truth, or at least a reasonable approximation of reality, most notably the need to know ourselves and the world around us.
Eric Chaisson
#71. Innocence as we understand it in our culture is very theatrical. The flip side is, if you're charming enough, you can get away with anything.
Susan Choi
#72. The clearest way to see through a culture is to attend to its tools for conversation.
Neil Postman
#73. Culture is both an intellectual phenomenon and a moral one
Matthew Arnold
#74. I don't think culture is something you can describe.
Bill Gates
#75. Our culture is superior. Our culture is superior because our religion is Christianity and that is the truth that makes men free.
Pat Buchanan
#76. A culture is only as great as its dreams, and its dreams are dreamed by artists.
L. Ron Hubbard
#77. The number one way culture is shaped is by what leaders model.
Mindy Hall
#78. Culture is everything. Culture is the way we dress, the way we carry our heads, the way we walk, the way we tie our ties - it is not only the fact of writing books or building houses.
Aime Cesaire
#79. The great thing about a culture is that once you really get it going, it evolves on its own. It's self-organizing. It's dynamic. It just feeds on itself.
John Mackey
#80. Culture is the celebration of diversity. Let us therefore not deny our origin; but instead celebrate ours as a cultural mosaic not a tower of Babel , but a power of Babel
Ali A. Mazrui
#81. Before anyone learns my last name, they always assume I have some type of Latin background in me somewhere. I love it! I think the Latin culture is sexy. It's one of my goals to learn to speak Spanish one day; then I will really be able to fool people!
Torrey DeVitto
#82. To all our means of culture is added the powerful incentive to personal ambition, no post of honor is so high but the poorest may hope to reach it.
James A. Garfield
#83. Popular culture is inescapable in the U.S. Why not use it?
Don DeLillo
#84. One of the most salient features of our culture is that there is so much bullshit.
Harry G. Frankfurt
#85. Trying to escape media influences in today's culture is as feasible as trying to protect ourselves from air pollution by not breathing.
Brene Brown
#86. Culture is as much about what we encourage as what we permit.
Fredrik Backman
#87. If a culture is good or evil, it is only because of its carriers.
M.F. Moonzajer
#88. One of the characteristics of North American culture is that you can always start again. You can always move forward, cross a border of a state or a city or a county, and move West, most of the time West. You leave behind guilt, past traditions, memories.
Isabel Allende
#90. Pop culture is just a rubik's cube of shit stacked on shit. And it's always turning and you can't figure it out. Ever. Unless you're a tiny Asian boy who can do it SO quickly! Where did this metaphore go? In Kim Kardashian's butt!
Grace Helbig
#91. I don't care what anybody says, there's nothing like the cultural influence of hip-hop. For me, hip-hop culture is involved in everything - it's in me, in who I am, in how I dress, how I talk. It's in my son and my wife.
Chris Paul
#92. Foreign culture is as necessary to the spirit of a nation as is foreign commerce to its industries.
Ameen Rihani
#93. Our culture is definitely the eighth grade. It's run by eighth-grade boys, and the way these boys show a girl they like her is by humiliating her and making her cry.
Merrill Markoe
#94. The center of Western culture is Greece, and we have never lost our ties with the architectural concepts of that ancient civilization.
Stephen Gardiner
#95. The idea that you make an experience that requires a conversation in a public place is training for the fact that culture is collective.
Edwin Schlossberg
#96. Explain to me what Italian-American culture is. We've been here 100 years. Isn't Italian-American culture American culture? That's because we're so diverse, in terms of intermarriage.
Al Pacino
#97. I'm also thinking a lot lately that Descartes has so much to answer for - his idea, "I think therefore I am." Western culture is so built around this overly cerebral disembodied way we've created all of our institutions, and we're impoverished by it. We're so much smaller for it. So
Krista Tippett
#98. I'm glad mainstream culture is starting to catch up to where lesbian-feminism was 30 years ago.
Alison Bechdel
#99. Culture is the sum of all the forms of art, of love, and of thought, which, in the coarse or centuries, have enabled man to be less enslaved
Andre Malraux
#100. Indeed, in a world of the BlackBerry, remote access and Wi-Fi hotspots on every street corner, it feels particularly outdated that much of our working culture is still dominated by the need to be at our desk for long hours of the day.
Cherie Blair
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