Culture Quotes
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The most profound reason... why the metropolis conduces to the urge for the most individual personal existence... appears to me to be the following: the development of modern culture is characterized by the preponderance of what one may call the 'objective spirit' over the 'subjective spirit.'
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Diversity of thought and culture and religion and ideas has been the strength of America.
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When a leader encourages the culture of impunity, the society is lost and it makes the work harder for the rest of us.
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In an industry that celebrates personal sacrifice as a symbol of commitment, you might not consider 'making sure everyone gets home for dinner' to be a mark of success, but creating and maintaining that culture is one of the things I'm most proud of.
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Students of American glass must always keep in mind that the creations they collect are truly examples of our American culture... and thus have historical significance.
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At Under Armour, we've created a very strong culture, a culture that first and foremost is built on people.
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To live your life well, and have respect for what came before or after - there's a strong respect for that in African culture.
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We would be a much healthier culture if the government had never told us how to eat.
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When you fight something like cancer, you not dealing with a person that looks at where you come from or what's your background or what race you are or what ethnicity or whatever. Whatever your culture is, it doesn't care about that. It doesn't sleep - it doesn't get tired - so if you make it about yourself, you're going to fail every time.
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Coming from having absolutely nothing to having a few grand in the bank, it was a big culture leap. I think that's why I went off the rails a bit really, 'cause there was no training for it. They didn't do fame in schools.
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To change our laws and culture, the green movement must attract and include the majority of all people, not just the majority of affluent people.
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Nobody of any real culture, for instance, ever talks nowadays about the beauty of sunset. Sunsets are quite old fashioned. To admire them is a distinct sign of provincialism of temperament. Upon the other hand they go on.
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No culture in human history ever suffered because its people became too reasonable or too desirous of having evidence in defense of their core beliefs.
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Human reactions to robots varies by culture and changes over time. In the United States we are terrified by killer robots. In Japan people want to snuggle with killer robots.
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... the novelist is bound by the reasonable possibilities, not the probabilities, of his culture.
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I don't know anything about Amazon's culture; I've never worked there.
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Very few of us trust our immediate connection with nature, or the intuitive intelligence of our body. All too easily, we align ourselves with the logical world of Masculine intelligence. As a culture, we have become so Masculine that we are much more comfortable with analytical problem-solving than with ecstatic dancing!
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Firemen have a culture of death. There are rituals, carefully constructed for the living, to process the dead.
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North Korea aside, most authoritarian governments have already accepted the growth of the Internet culture as inevitable; they have little choice but to find ways to shape it in accord with their own narratives - or risk having their narratives shaped by others.
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Baseball and its teams are proud of the sport's long-standing role as a change agent in American culture and society.
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Andy [Warhol] put on his fey kind of act, but he wanted to be number one and he succeeded. But you never know. Fifty years from now he might not be seen as so important, but the way our whole culture has gone, and the way it continues to go, is his way - for better or for worse.
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The Culture of Do and Tell The main inhibitor of Humble Inquiry is the culture in which we grew up. Culture can be thought of as manifesting itself on many levels—it is represented by all of its artifacts, by which I mean buildings, art works, products, language, and everything that we see and feel when we enter another culture.
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In government, things do not move too quick. That is why I am trying to introduce a new culture: so that things move more quickly.
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I love when people in culture show up on fictional TV shows. I don't mind at all being a name from the '90s.
