Sunday 4 June 2017

Culture Sayings and Quotes



A nation's culture resides in the hearts and in the soul of its people.

Mahatma Gandhi






Preservation of one's own culture does not require contempt or disrespect for other cultures.

Cesar Chavez





Why is it that, as a culture, we are more comfortable seeing two men holding guns than holding hands?    

Ernest Gaines





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

Mary Douglas





Society or culture or whatever you might want to call it, has created us all solely and wholly for the purpose of maintaining its continuity and status quo.    

U. G. Krishnamurti






Culture is the arts elevated to a set of beliefs.    

Thomas Wolfe





No culture can live if it attempts to be exclusive.    

Mahatma Gandhi





When a tradition gathers enough strength to go on for centuries, you don't just turn it off one day.    

Chinua Achebe





Tradition is the illusion of permanence.    

Woody Allen





Tradition is a guide and not a jailer.    

W. Somerset Maugham





Tradition does not mean that the living are dead, it means that the dead are living.

Gilbert K. Chesterton





I like the tradition of ordinary men in extraordinary circumstances and how they react to events which force them to be heroic in a way that is not in their natures.    

Rob Lowe





Youth culture now really looks back and embraces the past, but keeps it contemporary but not sticking to one particular style.    

Alexander McQueen






Pop culture is a reflection of social change, not a cause of social change.

John Podhoretz





Culture is a way of coping with the world by defining it in detail.

Malcolm Bradbury





I just think that some version of the past in our culture is going to rise up and become dominant.

Peter Davison





Tradition demands that we not speak poorly of the dead.

Daniel Barenboim





Everything is arranged so that it be this way, this is what is called culture.

Jacques Derrida





Popular culture has become engorged, broadening and thickening until it's the only culture anyone notices.

P. J. O'Rourke





When a marriage culture fails, sexual desire no longer unites; instead it fragments.    

Maggie Gallagher





Culture is not made up but something that evolves which is human.

Edward T. Hall





If we are to preserve culture we must continue to create it.    

Johan Huizinga





Everybody blames the culture without taking responsibility.    

James Levine





We are all part of a tradition, at least we depend on the past.    

Klaus Schulze





Tradition has made women cowardly.

Nance O'Neil





Custom is the great guide to human life.    

David Hume





Habit is necessary; it is the habit of having habits, of turning a trail into a rut, that must be incessantly fought against if one is to remain alive.    

Edith Wharton





Traditions are the guideposts driven deep in our subconscious minds. The most powerful ones are those we can't even describe, aren't even aware of.    

Ellen Goodman





Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead.    

G. K. Chesterton





Culture makes all men gentle.

Menander




Tradition can, to be sure, participate in a creation, but it can no longer be creative itself.

Kenzo Tange





This is the culture you're raising your kids in. Don't be surprised if it blows up in your face.

Marilyn Manson





Every culture has something to be ashamed of, but every culture also has the right to change, to challenge negative traditions, and create to new ones.    

Ralph Nader





All tradition is merely the past.

Jiddu Krishnamurti





A love for tradition has never weakened a nation, indeed it has strengthened nations in their hour of peril.    

Winston Churchill






Tradition simply means that we need to end what began well and continue what is worth continuing    

Jose Bergamin





Tradition is an important help to history, but its statements should be carefully scrutinized before we rely on them.    

Joseph Addison





As soon as tradition has come to be recognized as tradition, it is dead.    

Allan Bloom





The second fundamental feature of culture is that all culture has an element of striving.

Johan Huizinga





The role of culture is that it's the form through which we as a society reflect on who we are, where we've been, where we hope to be.    

Wendell Pierce





Culture is the widening of the mind and of the spirit.    

Jawaharlal Nehru





If your culture doesn't like geeks, you are in real trouble.

Bill Gates






In every ancient culture, there are rituals to mortify the body as a way of understanding that the energy of the soul is indestructible.    

Marina Abramovic





To merely observe your culture without contributing to it seems very close to existing as a ghost.    

Chuck Palahniuk





If you're doing something outside of dominant culture, there's not an easy place for you. You will have to do it yourself.

Ava Duvernay





When you learn something from people, or from a culture, you accept it as a gift, and it is your lifelong commitment to preserve it and build on it.    

Yo-Yo Ma





Building a great tradition is more rewarding than simply having one.    

J.R. Slaughter





Tradition is an explanation for acting without thinking.

Grace Mcgarvie





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

Norman Mailer





Cultures grow on the vine of tradition.    

Jonah Goldberg

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