Culture Quotes - page 3

During the long process of history, by relying on our own diligence, courage and wisdom, Chinese people have opened up a good and beautiful home where all ethnic groups live in harmony and fostered an excellent culture that never fades. (Xi Jinping)
Our art culture makes no attempt to search the past for precedents, but transforms the entire past into a sequence of provisional responses to a problem that remains intact. View quote
André Malraux
We live today in a world in which nobody believes choices should have consequences. But may I tell you the great secret that our culture seeks to deny? You cannot escape the consequences of your choices. Time runs in only one direction. View quote
Stephen L. Carter
Culture is an instrument wielded by teachers to manufacture teachers, who, in their turn, will manufacture still more teachers. View quote
Simone Weil
We should have a State in which we could live and breathe as free men and which we could develop according to our own lights and culture and where principles of Islamic social justice could find free play. View quote
Muhammad Ali Jinnah
The present aristocracy of western culture, at the very moment when it most clearly dominates the world, is being imitated rapidly and successfully in every eastern country. View quote
John Desmond Bernal
As the traveler who has once been from home is wiser than he who has never left his own doorstep, so a knowledge of one other culture should sharpen our ability to scrutinize more steadily, to appreciate lovingly, our own. View quote
Margaret Mead
Our culture peculiarly honors the act of blaming, which it takes as the sign of virtue and intellect. View quote
Lionel Trilling
Never tire yourself more than necessary, even if you have to found a culture on the fatigue of your bones. View quote
Antonin Artaud
The content or time-clothing of any medium or culture is the preceding medium or culture. View quote
Marshall McLuhan
Everything is what it is: liberty is liberty, not equality or fairness or justice or culture, or human happiness or a quiet conscience. (Isaiah Berlin)
A culture is only as great as its dreams, and its dreams are dreamed by artists. View quote
L. Ron Hubbard
A free culture has been our past, but it will only be our future if we change the path we are on right now. View quote
Lawrence Lessig
So much American science fiction is parochial -- not as true now as it was years ago, but the assumption is one culture in the future, more or less like ours, and with the same ideals, the same notions of how to do things, just bigger and flashier technology. Well, you know darn well it doesn't work that way... View quote
Poul Anderson
Culture does not make people. People make culture. If it is true that the full humanity of women is not our culture, then we can and must make it our culture. View quote
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Writing, printing, and the Internet give a false sense of security about the permanence of culture. View quote
Jane Jacobs
Culture is on the horns of this dilemma if profound and noble it must remain rare, if common it must become mean. View quote
George Santayana
The first step - especially for young people with energy and drive and talent, but not money - the first step to controlling your world is to control your culture. To model and demonstrate the kind of world you demand to live in. To write the books. Make the music. Shoot the films. Paint the art. View quote
Chuck Palahniuk
Mrs. Ballinger is one of the ladies who pursue Culture in bands, as though it were dangerous to meet it alone. View quote
Edith Wharton
To give an accurate description of what has never occurred is not merely the proper occupation of the historian, but the inalienable privilege of any man of parts and culture. View quote
Oscar Wilde
There is much to be said in favor of modern journalism. By giving us the opinions of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community. By carefully chronicling the current events of contemporary life, it shows us of what very little importance such events really are. By invariably discussing the unnecessary, it makes us understand what things are requisite for culture, and what are not. (Oscar Wilde)
Popular culture is inescapable in the U.S. Why not use it? View quote
Don DeLillo
Debate and divergence of views can only enrich our history and culture. View quote
Ibrahim Babangida
It is of the essence of imaginative culture that is transcends the limits both of the naturally possible and of the morally acceptable. View quote
Northrop Frye
Scientists are very much entangled in their culture and this culture is not pristine, untouched by other cultures and practices. View quote
Bruno Latour