Top Culture Quotes

It's too late to be studying Hebrew; it's more important to understand even the slang of today.

I am not interested in living in a city where there isn't a production by Samuel Beckett running.

Culture Definition

(n.) The act or practice of cultivating, or of preparing the earth for seed and raising crops by tillage; as, the culture of the soil.

(n.) The act of, or any labor or means employed for, training, disciplining, or refining the moral and intellectual nature of man; as, the culture of the mind.

(n.) The state of being cultivated; result of cultivation; physical improvement; enlightenment and discipline acquired by mental and moral training; civilization; refinement in manners and taste.

(v. t.) To cultivate; to educate.

One-third to one-half of humanity are said to go to bed hungry every night. In the Old Stone Age the fraction must have been much smaller. This is the era of hunger unprecedented. Now, in the time of...

The thread of culture that runs through the entire history of punk is also a dedication to challenging the authoritarian.

Coming from an Asian culture, I was always taught to respect my elders, to be a better listener than a talker.

I meet people and they enforce me their culture and then I choose to fly away and I meet other people and these people force me their religion and I wanna fly away. I meet other people, these people a...

People think that other international languages are smarter and more business wise. But they have to understand that we have to preserve our culture.

The deal with multiculturalism is that the only culture you're allowed to disapprove of is your own.

I don't like the ironic tone that our pop culture, in the world, has taken. Everything is 'ironic.' Everything is 'cool.'

Hunter-gatherer societies have typically been egalitarian, as we'll soon see, throughout hominin history. Inequality emerged when stuff, things to possess and accumulate, was invented following animal...

By acquiescing in an act that causes such suffering to a living creature, who among us is not diminished?

I deeply believe that if the Australian Labor Party, a party of which I have been a proud member for more than 30 years, is to have the best future for our nation, then it must change fundamentally it...

Falling in love is like learning a whole new language and the culture that goes along with it. When you fall out of love it can be hard to pick up where you left off and start a new.

The beauty myth is always actually prescribing behaviour and not appearance.

The Victorian woman became her ovaries, as today's woman has become her beauty.

Our society reward beauty on the outside over health on the inside. Women must not be blamed for choosing short-term beauty fixes that harm our long-term health, since our life spans are inverted und...

The function of literature, through all its mutations, has been to make us aware of the particularity of selves, and the high authority of the self in its quarrel with its society and its culture. Lit...

I'm proud of the culture I come from - we're a small country and a close-knit community.

Scotland consistently produces world-class writers.

Those of us in the first American generations have had to figure out how the invisible world the emigrants built around our childhoods fits in solid America.