Culture Quotes - Page 13

• Culture is the habit of being pleased with the best and knowing why.

  Henry Van Dyke

  Knowing, Art And Culture, Habit

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• The first step in liquidating a people is to erase its memory. Destroy its books, its culture, its history.

  Milan Kundera

  Memories, Book, People

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• There are values that transcend race or culture, that move us forward, and there's an obligation for all of us individually as well as collectively to take responsibility to make those values lived.

  Barack Obama

  Moving, Responsibility, Race

  "Huckabee: Muslim Can Be President; Obama 'Pretends to Be' Christian, Makes Living Out Faith Difficult" by Samuel Smith, www.christianpost.com. September 23, 2015.

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• A country whose culture is based on nonviolence will find it necessary to have every home as much self-contained as possible.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Country, Home, Self

  Mahatma Gandhi (1958). “Collected Works”

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• The truest test of civilization, culture and dignity is character and not clothing.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Character, Civilization, Tests

  Mahatma Gandhi (1967). “Collected Works”

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• Which is to say that culture is not a reflex of political economy, but
  that society is now a reflex of key shifts in music theory and practice....
  [Sampladelia is] the sound made by those early-twentieth-century discoveries
  in particle physics and relativiity theory, the projection of the minds of
  Einstein, Heisenbery, and Bohr, their fateful explorations of liquid time,
  curving space, uncertainty fields and relativity theorems, into densely
  configured and fully ambivalent android music tracks

  Arthur Kroker

  Discovery, Practice, Space

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• Culture's worth huge, huge risks. Without culture we're all totalitarian beasts.

  Norman Mailer

  Risk, Beast, Huge

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• The key to community is the acceptance, in fact the celebration of our individual and cultural differences. It is also the key to world peace

  M. Scott Peck

  Acceptance, Keys, Differences

  M. Scott Peck (2010). “The Different Drum: Community Making and Peace”, p.186, Simon and Schuster

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• The only thing of real importance that leader do is to create and manage culture

  Edgar Schein

  Real, Leader, Importance

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• Listen: our culture is saturated with irony whether we know it or not.

  Barbara Kruger

  Artist, Irony, Knows

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• Culture looks beyond machinery, culture hates hatred; culture has one great passion--the passion for sweetness and light. It has one even yet greater, the passion for making them all prevail. It is not satisfied till we all come to a perfect man; it knows that the sweetness and light of the few must be imperfect until the raw and unkindly masses of humanity are touched with sweetness and light.

  Matthew Arnold

  Hate, Passion, Men

  Matthew Arnold (2013). “Delphi Complete Poetical Works of Matthew Arnold (Illustrated)”, p.790, Delphi Classics

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• Human diversity makes tolerance more than a virtue; it makes it a requirement for survival.

  Rene Dubos

  Differences, Diversity, Tolerance

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• I believe that a culture of peace must be the essential foundation of our efforts for peace.

  Daisaku Ikeda

  Believe, Effort, Foundation

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• The trick of making movies in this culture is how to not give up everything that makes them worthwhile in order to get them made - and that's a tricky balance.

  Alex Winter

  Movie, Giving Up, Order

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• War is not inherent in human beings. We learn war and we learn peace. The culture of peace is something which is learned, just as violence is learned and war culture is learned.

  Elise M. Boulding

  Peace, War, Learning

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• There's this belief that some things can be taken seriously in an intellectual way, while some things are only entertainment or only a commodity. Or there's some kind of critical consensus that some things are "good," and some things are garbage, throwaway culture. And I think the difference between them, in a lot of ways, is actually much less than people think. Especially when you get down to how they affect the audience.

  Chuck Klosterman

  Taken, Thinking, Differences

  Interview with Noel Murray, www.avclub.com. November 15, 2006.

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• As far as cities, I love London. I go to London very often because I think the young people there are very creative. I also love New York, of course, and the clash of different cultures you find there.

  Nicki Minaj

  New York, Thinking, Cities

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• In Western culture, there's a dichotomy between the easy narratives of God and the Devil. I now believe in this greater overarching spiritual thing. We are the light and the dark, and have to own the darkness. It's part of us. It's not evil. It's needed. You need to own both of them to be whole. Absorb it, and live it as part of your life.

  Kevin Sessums

  Spiritual, Believe, Dark

  Source: www.thedailybeast.com

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• I think more and more, if you live in the current world - and live internationally - it's all a mix of interests, and the same people who are interested in fashion are also interested in movies, art, and culture.

  Miuccia Prada

  Fashion, Art, Thinking

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Shamanism is a kind of universal spiritual practice with indigenous cultures around the world, and one important element of it is taking care of spirits.

  Daniel Pinchbeck

  Spiritual, Practice, Important

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• A lot of indigenous cultures are deeply involved in working with ancestor spirits, elemental spirits, and demons. Many of these cultures feel that, if you don't deal properly with ancestor spirits, then they come back and infest the living in the form of things like depression, addictive patterns, and neuroses. We in the modern West completely deny the existence of these spirits or other types of entities. And because we've denied them, we may have opened the gates for them to manipulate us in a lot of ways.

  Daniel Pinchbeck

  May, Neurosis, Patterns

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• If we focused on using the opportunities we have, which are very great by any standard - health, longevity, comfort and privacy, endless resources of culture and information - we would not just navigate this world, we would leave a good inheritance to succeeding generations.

  Marilynne Robinson

  Opportunity, Inheritance, World

  "Marilynne Robinson: A Good Inheritance". Interview with Michele Filgate, www.barnesandnoble.com. October 21, 2014.

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