Culture Quotes - page 4

Technical problems can be remediated. A dishonest corporate culture is much harder to fix. (Bruce Schneier)
France, and the whole of Europe have a great culture and an amazing history. Most important thing though is that people there know how to live! In America they've forgotten all about it. I'm afraid that the American culture is a disaster. View quote
Johnny Depp
You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them. View quote
Ray Bradbury
It is a testament to our naïveté about culture that we think that we can change it by simply declaring new values. Such declarations usually produce only cynicism. View quote
Peter Senge
Moral values, and a culture and a religion, maintaining these values are far better than laws and regulations. View quote
Swami Sivananda
Vision without power does bring moral elevation but cannot give a lasting culture. View quote
Muhammad Iqbal
Culture relates to objects and is a phenomenon of the world; entertainment relates to people and is a phenomenon of life. View quote
Hannah Arendt
In its relation to the reality of daily life, the high culture of the past was many things-opposition and adornment, outcry and resignation. But it was also the appearance of the realm of freedom: the refusal to behave. View quote
Herbert Marcuse
There are no globalized, youth-led, grassroots social movements advocating for democratic culture across Muslim-majority societies. There is no equivalent of Al-Qaeda without the terrorism. View quote
Maajid Nawaz
Celebrity culture has gone crazy, and I think the reason is that real news is just not bearable, and it also seems impossible to change anything. View quote
Chris Martin
The central conservative truth is that it is culture, not politics, that determines the success of a society. The central liberal truth is that politics can change a culture and save it from itself. (Daniel Patrick Moynihan)
When I was a child, when I was an adolescent, books saved me from despair: that convinced me that culture was the highest of values[...]. View quote
Simone de Beauvoir
A fully integrated culture would be like the dinosaurs, which had to perish because they were no longer able to adapt themselves to changes in the external environment. View quote
Carroll Quigley
Religious ideas have sprung from the same need as all the other achievements of culture from the necessity for defending itself against the crushing supremacy of nature. View quote
Sigmund Freud
If the pros at Sun had had a chance to fix Java, the world would be a much more pleasant place. This is not secret knowledge. It's just secret to this pop culture. View quote
Alan Kay
Culture is perishing in overproduction, in an avalanche of words, in the madness of quantity. View quote
Milan Kundera
If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to follow his vision wherever it takes him. View quote
John F. Kennedy
To further the appreciation of culture among all the people, to increase respect for the creative individual, to widen participation by all the processes and fulfillments of art - this is one of the fascinating challenges of these days. View quote
John F. Kennedy
All the lessons of psychiatry, psychology, social work, indeed culture, have taught us over the last hundred years that it is the acceptance of differences, not the search for similarities which enables people to relate to each other in their personal or family lives. View quote
John Ralston Saul
And yet, in a culture like ours, which is given to material comforts, and addicted to forms of entertainment that offer immediate gratification, it is surprising that so much poetry is written. View quote
Mark Strand
Jazz, of course, is our heritage. Jazz is a culture, it's not a fad. It's up to us to see to it that it stays alive. (Marla Gibbs)
It's trite to say that the world has gotten smaller in the age of globalization, but my travels have told me that it's wrong to think this means there is some kind of uniform world culture. View quote
Norman Spinrad
I think America and Britain have a different culture from France. They discovered marketing and consumerism before France. View quote
Pierre Dukan
Change is no threat to culture. View quote
Wade Davis
I hope to use dialogue and culture as a means of bringing people of various cultures together, and using that as a way to resolve conflict. View quote
Herbie Hancock