2519 Culture Quotes for You to Enjoy

Man's biological weakness is the condition of human culture. Erich Fromm

Man Culture Weakness Condition Human Biological

It's a classic error in American discourse: the conflation of race with culture. Euny Hong

Culture Classic Discourse Error American Race

I could fill my whole time doing interviews, speaking to crowds, and there's this natural human tendency because of our culture to think that the more people I talk to, the bigger the impact I'll have, and yet Jesus didn't spend His time just speaking to the masses. He spent the bulk of his time with a small group of people. Francis Chan

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Feckless as it was for Bush to ask Americans to go shopping after 9/11, we all too enthusiastically followed his lead, whether we were wealthy, working-class or in between. We spent a decade feasting on easy money, don't-pay-as-you-go consumerism and a metastasizing celebrity culture. Frank Rich

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There is something terribly wrong with a culture inebriated by noise and gregariousness. George Steiner

Noise Culture Something Wrong Terribly

In the transmission of human culture, people always attempt to replicate, to pass on to the next generation the skills and values of the parents, but the attempt always fails because cultural transmission is geared to learning, not DNA. Gregory Bateson

Learning Generation Culture People Values Parents Geared Attempt Fails Because Pass Always Cultural Replicate Human Next Transmission Next Generation Skills

The man or nation of high culture may acknowledge to great lengths the restraints imposed by conventions and honour, but beyond a certain point, primitive will or desire cannot be curbed. H. P. Lovecraft

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Why are we so obsessed with celebrity culture? We have front-page news about divorces instead of front-page news about global warming, about women being abused, about children being abused. We're going on a downward spiral. Heather Mills

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I think every woman in our culture is a feminist. They may refuse to articulate it, but if you were to take any woman back 40 years and say, 'Is this a world you want to live in?' They would say, 'No.' Helen Mirren

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

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It's one thing when other African-Americans try to threaten my race card, but when people outside of my ethnicity have the audacity to question how 'down' I am because of the bleak, stereotypical picture pop culture has painted for me as a black woman? Unacceptable. Issa Rae

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It's important that we start conversations about changing the culture of sexual harassment and discrimination in politics, state capitols, and our larger communities with an acknowledgment of the courage of so many women who have chosen to speak up and speak out. J. B. Pritzker

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I used to define success as being able to produce any result you wanted, whether it was a relationship, weight-loss, being a millionaire, impacting the culture, changing society, whatever it might be - it might be homelessness, whatever - and lately, I've redefined success as 'fulfilling your soul's purpose.' Jack Canfield

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Most of my ukulele heroes were traditional players from Hawaii, like Eddie Kamae and Ohta-san. There may not be uke stars in popular culture, but there are certainly pop stars that play uke - George Harrison, Eddie Vedder, Taylor Swift, Train, and Paul McCartney. Jake Shimabukuro

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No people come into possession of a culture without having paid a heavy price for it. James Baldwin

Culture People Possession Having Price Come Without Heavy Paid

True flexibility is a symbiotic partnership between employer and employee and between technology and culture. Jean-Philippe Courtois

Technology Culture True Between Employee Employer Partnership Flexibility Symbiotic

When traveling, we continually are 'discovering' what our day will be. We are in a new environment, perhaps a different culture, interacting with strangers who might have different priorities than we ourselves have. Jeff Kober

Day Culture Will Strangers Our Ourselves Environment New Perhaps Priorities Continually Discovering Than Interacting Different Might Who Traveling

I celebrate my blackness. I love the artistic vibrancy of the culture I was born to. Jesmyn Ward

Love Celebrate Culture Born Blackness Artistic

I want young people to know that they can belong - whatever your culture, your religion, your sexuality - that you can live life how you want to live it and feel comfortable how you are. Jessie J

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I was looking for a new challenge and got an interest in trying to make a difference for families. You become more aware of how important families are. They are the key institution in our culture. The reason I got into politics was to try to make a difference for that key institution, whether it was tax policy, education policy, or whatever. Jim Jordan

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Reading and understanding the Bible involves lots and lots of interpretation. Not just in light of the world and culture around us, but in reference to other parts of the Bible. John Piper

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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. Johnny Depp

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