Culture Sayings and Quotes
Life would be pretty boring without culture. It influences the music we listen to, the food we eat, our interests and even our values and views on morality. Below you’ll find a collection of wise and insightful culture quotes.
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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.
