Culture Quotes - Page 16

Bacteria: The only culture some people have.

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

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

When future archaeologists dig up the remains of California, they're going to find all of those gyms their scary-looking gym equipment, and they're going to assume that we were a culture obsessed with torture.

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.

The worst thing about permaculture is that it's extremely successful, but it has no center, and no hierarchy.

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

Let us recognize that we can no longer tolerate violent oppression of women in the name of religion and culture any more than we would tolerate violent oppression espoused by any other bully in the name of a twisted rationale.

[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.

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.

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

Mans most disagreeable habits and idiosyncrasies, his deceit, his cowardice, his lack of reverence, are engendered by his incomplete adjustment to a complicated civilisation. It is the result of the conflict between our instincts and our culture.

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

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

The counterculture is always repackaged and made into a product. It's part of America.

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

You got to be ready for everything in life

Mathematics is as much an aspect of culture as it is a collection of algorithms.

Most American Jews came from the lower middle classes, and therefore they brought with them not a lot of Jewish culture. The American Jewish story starts with Ellis Island, and the candy store in the Bronx.

The people themselves are not a homogeneous cultural collectivity but present numerous and variously combined cultural stratifications which, in their pure form, cannot always be identified within specific historical popular collectivities.

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

A Senegalese poet said 'In the end we will conserve only what we love. We love only what we understand, and we will understand only what we are taught.' We must learn about other cultures in order to understand, in order to love, and in order to preserve our common world heritage.

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

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.

In a culture where the possibility of wealth and the acquisition of things is so defining of success, we end up pursuing things that, even if we are successful, can never deliver what we envisioned they would. The reason riches become such a snare is because we end up evaluating life in mercenary terms and being seen by others in such terms, and life is just not so.