Culture Sayings and Quotes
Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous old culture quotes, culture sayings, and culture proverbs, collected over the years from a variety of sources.
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A nation's culture resides in the hearts and in the soul of its people.
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Preservation of one's own culture does not require contempt or disrespect for other cultures.
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Why is it that, as a culture, we are more comfortable seeing two men holding guns than holding hands?
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If you want to change the culture, you will have to start by changing the organization.
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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.
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Culture is the arts elevated to a set of beliefs.
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No culture can live if it attempts to be exclusive.
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When a tradition gathers enough strength to go on for centuries, you don't just turn it off one day.
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Tradition is the illusion of permanence.
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Tradition is a guide and not a jailer.
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Tradition does not mean that the living are dead, it means that the dead are living.
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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.
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Youth culture now really looks back and embraces the past, but keeps it contemporary but not sticking to one particular style.
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Pop culture is a reflection of social change, not a cause of social change.
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Culture is a way of coping with the world by defining it in detail.
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I just think that some version of the past in our culture is going to rise up and become dominant.
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Tradition demands that we not speak poorly of the dead.
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Everything is arranged so that it be this way, this is what is called culture.
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Popular culture has become engorged, broadening and thickening until it's the only culture anyone notices.
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When a marriage culture fails, sexual desire no longer unites; instead it fragments.
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Culture is not made up but something that evolves which is human.
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If we are to preserve culture we must continue to create it.
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Everybody blames the culture without taking responsibility.
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We are all part of a tradition, at least we depend on the past.
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Tradition has made women cowardly.
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Custom is the great guide to human life.
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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.
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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.
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Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead.
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Culture makes all men gentle.
