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.
A nation's culture resides in the hearts and in the soul of its people.Mahatma Gandhi
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If you want to change the culture, you will have to start by changing the organization.Mary Douglas
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Preservation of one's own culture does not require contempt or disrespect for other cultures.Cesar Chavez
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Why is it that, as a culture, we are more comfortable seeing two men holding guns than holding hands?Ernest Gaines
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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.U. G. Krishnamurti
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Culture is the arts elevated to a set of beliefs.Thomas Wolfe
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No culture can live if it attempts to be exclusive.Mahatma Gandhi
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When a tradition gathers enough strength to go on for centuries, you don't just turn it off one day.Chinua Achebe
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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.Alexander McQueen
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Pop culture is a reflection of social change, not a cause of social change.John Podhoretz
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Culture is a way of coping with the world by defining it in detail.Malcolm Bradbury
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Popular culture has become engorged, broadening and thickening until it's the only culture anyone notices.P. J. O'Rourke
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Culture is not made up but something that evolves which is human.Edward T. Hall
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If we are to preserve culture we must continue to create it.Johan Huizinga
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Culture makes all men gentle.Menander
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This is the culture you're raising your kids in. Don't be surprised if it blows up in your face.Marilyn Manson
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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
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The second fundamental feature of culture is that all culture has an element of striving.Johan Huizinga
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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
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Culture is the widening of the mind and of the spirit.Jawaharlal Nehru
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If your culture doesn't like geeks, you are in real trouble.Bill Gates
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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
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To merely observe your culture without contributing to it seems very close to existing as a ghost.Chuck Palahniuk
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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
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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
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Culture's worth huge, huge risks. Without culture we're all totalitarian beasts.Norman Mailer
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Cultures grow on the vine of tradition.Jonah Goldberg
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Tradition is the illusion of permanence.Woody Allen
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Tradition is a guide and not a jailer.W. Somerset Maugham
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Tradition does not mean that the living are dead, it means that the dead are living.Gilbert K. Chesterton
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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.Rob Lowe
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I just think that some version of the past in our culture is going to rise up and become dominant.Peter Davison
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Tradition demands that we not speak poorly of the dead.Daniel Barenboim
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Everything is arranged so that it be this way, this is what is called culture.Jacques Derrida
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When a marriage culture fails, sexual desire no longer unites; instead it fragments.Maggie Gallagher
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Everybody blames the culture without taking responsibility.James Levine
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We are all part of a tradition, at least we depend on the past.Klaus Schulze
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Tradition has made women cowardly.Nance O'Neil
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Custom is the great guide to human life.David Hume
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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.Edith Wharton
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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.Ellen Goodman
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Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead.G. K. Chesterton
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Tradition can, to be sure, participate in a creation, but it can no longer be creative itself.Kenzo Tange
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All tradition is merely the past.Jiddu Krishnamurti
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A love for tradition has never weakened a nation, indeed it has strengthened nations in their hour of peril.Winston Churchill
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Tradition simply means that we need to end what began well and continue what is worth continuingJose Bergamin
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Tradition is an important help to history, but its statements should be carefully scrutinized before we rely on them.Joseph Addison
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As soon as tradition has come to be recognized as tradition, it is dead.Allan Bloom
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Building a great tradition is more rewarding than simply having one.J.R. Slaughter
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Tradition is an explanation for acting without thinking.Grace Mcgarvie
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Culture is such a thin veneer / Scratch it and the truth will come gushing out / And the truth will come bleeding out / Yeah it all will come crashing down / The truth will comePaul J. Carney
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This is what my daddy told me / I wish he would hold me a little more than he did / But he taught me my culture / And how to live positiveDuncan Philip Bridgeman
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We don't know what it's for but / We've lived the southern strategy / You know it's never going to last / So keep it in the pastJeremy Gara
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forget how the culture / we come from divide us / forget how the culture / we come from divide us / this is the culture of
dusty old vinyl / this is the tribal record of loveGabrielle Glaser
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In an immature society culture is an import; for a mature one it is a native manufacture which eventually becomes an export.Northrop Frye
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Culture is born in leisure and an awareness of standards, and pioneer conditions tend to make energetic and uncritical work an end it itself, to preach a gospel of social unconsciousness, which lingers long after the pioneer conditions have disappeared.Northrop Frye
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It is a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more money writing or talking about his art than he can by practising it.Elizabeth Knowles
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Culture is coded wisdom.Wangari Maathai
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Culture means control over nature.Johan Huizinga
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Culture opens the sense of beauty.Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Modern culture is a tremendous force. John Gresham Machen
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Company culture is a religion, not a sermon.Gary Vaynerchuk
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Culture is not a matter of a change of climate.George Horace Lorimer
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The effectiveness of a new culture depends on the strength of the people behind the change and the strength of the pre-existing culture.Steve Gruenert
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Cultures are virtual realities made of language.Terence McKenna
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Culture does not make people. People make culture.Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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Culture is a slingshot moved by the force of its past.Barbara Kingsolver
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A culture disconnected from wild nature becomes insane.Toby Hemenway
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The greatness of a culture can be found in its festivals.Siddharth Katragadda