Culture Quotes - Page 9

• Language is the road map of a culture. It tells you where its people come from and where they are going.

  Rita Mae Brown

  Inspiration, Learning, People

  Rita Mae Brown (2011). “Starting from Scratch: A Different Kind of Writers' Manual”, p.47, Bantam

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• We Have the Ability to Achieve, If We Master the Necessary Goodwill, a Common Global Society

  Mahnaz Afkhami

  Common, Achieve, Masters

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• Culture is the passion for sweetness and light, and (what is more) the passion for making them prevail.

  Matthew Arnold

  Passion, Light, Sweetness

  1873 Literature and Dogma, preface.

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• If you want to change the culture, you will have to start by changing the organization.

  Mary Douglas

  Change, Organization, Want

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• The real 1960s began on the afternoon of November 22, 1963. It came to seem that Kennedy's murder opened some malign trap door in American culture, and the wild bats flapped out.

  Lance Morrow

  Real, Doors, History

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• ...Any definition of a culture of peace must address the problem of achieving justice for communities and individuals who do not have the means to compete or cope without structured assistance and compassionate help.

  Mahnaz Afkhami

  Peace, Mean, Justice

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• Don't tire yourself more than need be, even at the price of founding a culture on the fatigue of your bones.

  Antonin Artaud

  Needs, Bones, Tire

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• Company cultures are like country cultures. Never try to change one. Try, instead, to work with what you've got.

  Peter Drucker

  Change, Country, Trying

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• Let us join our efforts toward building the unshakable foundations for a culture of peace.

  Daisaku Ikeda

  Teamwork, Effort, Foundation

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• It is of the essence of imaginative culture that it transcends the limits both of the naturally possible and of the morally acceptable.

  Northrop Frye

  Essence, Limits, Imaginative

  Northrop Frye (2015). “Anatomy of Criticism”, p.127, Princeton University Press

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• Every age, every culture, every custom and tradition has its own character, its own weakness and its own strength, its beauties and cruelties; it accepts certain sufferings as matters of course, puts up patiently with certain evils. Human life is reduced to real suffering, to hell, only when two ages, two cultures and religions overlap

  Hermann Hesse

  Real, Character, Two

  Hermann Hesse (1961). “Der Steppenwolf”, Henry Holt & Company

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• Greece appears to be the fountain of knowledge; Rome of elegance

  Samuel Johnson

  Rome, Elegance, Fountain

  Samuel Johnson, James Boswell (1807). “Dr. Johnson's table-talk: aphorisms [&c.] selected and arranged from mr. Boswell's life of Johnson”, p.199

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• 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.

  Yo-Yo Ma

  Order, Other Cultures, Community

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• Of the many forms of false culture, a premature converse with abstractions is perhaps the most likely to prove fatal to the growth of a masculine vigour of intellect.

  George Boole

  Science, Growth, Form

  George Boole (1872). “A Treatise on Differential Equations”, p.6

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• I'm more of a culture hummingbird.

  Jai Rodriguez

  Hummingbirds

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• And it's not only films, I'm pretty unaware of anything that's going on in popular culture right now.

  Brad Bird

  Film, Popular Culture, Right Now

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• The most important environmental issue is one that is rarely mentioned, and that is the lack of a conservation ethic in our culture.

  Gaylord Nelson

  Issues, Environmental, Important

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• Art is such an important part of our culture.

  Rosanna Arquette

  Art, Important, Art Is

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• The prosperity of a country depends, not on the abundance of its revenues, nor on the strength of its fortifications, nor on the beauty of its public buildings; but it consists in the number of its cultivated citizens, in its men of education, enlightenment and character.

  Martin Luther

  Country, Character, Men

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• Much of our highly valued cultural heritage has been acquired at the cost of sexuality.

  Sigmund Freud

  Cost, Heritage, Sexuality

  Freud, Sigmund (2014). “An Outline of Psychoanalysis”, p.60, Read Books Ltd

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• What sort of tree is there which will not, if neglected, grow crooked and unfruitful; what but Will, if rightly ordered, prove productive and bring its fruit to maturity? What strength of body is there which will not lose its vigor and fall to decay by laziness, nice usage, and debauchery?

  Plutarch

  Nice, Fall, Maturity

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• Zen culture invites us to experience reality without the intervening distractions of intellect, categories, analysis.

  Tom Hoover

  Reality, Experience, Analysis

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• Meditation is culture.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Meditation

  Benjamin Disraeli (1846). “Contarini Fleming: A Romance”, p.338

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• Culture is the sum of all the forms of art, of love, and of thought, which, in the coarse or centuries, have enabled man to be less enslaved

  Andre Malraux

  Art, Men, Century

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• If you do not breathe through writing, if you do not cry out in writing, or sing in writing, then don't write, because our culture has no use for it.

  Anais Nin

  Writing, Commitment, Use

  "Woman as Writer" by Jeannette L. Webber and Joan Grumman, (p. 38), 1978.

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