Culture Quotes - Page 12

A national culture, if it is to flourish, should be a constellation of cultures, the constitutes of which, benefiting each other, benefit the whole.

How we preserve time for family is one of the most significant issues we face in most cultures.

No culture in history has ever embraced moral relativism and survived. Our own culture, therefore, will either (1) be the first, and disprove history's clearest lesson, or (2) persist in its relativism and die, or (3) repent of its relativism and live. There is no other option.

If we want to grow as teachers -- we must do something alien to academic culture: we must talk to each other about our inner lives -- risky stuff in a profession that fears the personal and seeks safety in the technical, the distant, the abstract.

We want to ensure a multilateral development of society, the thriving of all sides of social life, economy, science and culture, the improvement of management, the moulding of the new man and the promotion of socialist ethics and equity.

Culture arises and unfolds in and as play... culture itself bears the character of play.

... just as early industrial capitalism moved the focus of existence from being to having, post-industrial culture has moved that focus from having to appearing.

Film is very much a universal and common voice, and we can't limit it to one particular culture.

Comics are an international language, they can cross boundaries and generations. Comics are a bridge between all cultures.

Where there is Peace, there is Culture; Where there is Culture, there is Peace.

As long as we are engaged in storytelling that moves the culture forward, it doesn't matter what format it is.

Females carry the marks, language and nuances of their culture more than the male. Anything that is desired or despised is always placed on the female body.

Western culture is what gave us Mozart, and Da Vinci, and Wagner, and Beethoven.

You can’t mandate [cultural change], can’t engineer it. What you can do is create the conditions for transformation. You can provide incentives. You can define the marketplace realities and goals. But then you have to trust. In fact, in the end, management doesn’t change culture. Management invites the workforce itself to change the culture.

Nothing strengthens the judgment and quickens the conscience like individual responsibility.

Culture consists of connections, not of separations: to specialize is to isolate.

You cannot, for instance, sustainably protect the environment if the majority of the people are still in primitive agriculture leading to the encroachment of forest reserves.

Culture outperforms strategy every time; and culture with strategy is unbeatable.

Modern culture is a mighty force. It is either subservient to the gospel or else it is the deadliest enemy of the gospel

The symbolic display seen by the abductees is identical to the type of initiation ritual or astral voyage that is imbedded in the [occult] traditions of every culture...the structure of abduction stories is identical to that of occult initiation rituals...the UFO beings of today belong to the same class of manifestation as the [occult] entities that were described in centuries past.

The rapprochement of peoples is only possible when differences of culture and outlook are respected and appreciated rather than feared and condemned, when the common bond of human dignity is recognized as the essential bond for a peaceful world.

A culture that values production over life values the wrong things, because it will produce things at the expense of living beings, human or otherwise.

Back to culture. Yes, actually to culture. You can’t consume much if you sit still and read books.

Modern materialists and religious extremists alike lack the spiritual animistic reverence for non-human beings that every culture once understood as a given.

Absolutely nothing is so important for a nation's culture as its language.