C Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with C. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Culture and collars had gone together, to him, and he had been deceived into believing that college educations and mastery were the same things.”
Source: Martin Eden
“Culture and education are the lethal weapons against all kinds of fundamentalism.”
Source: Persepolis Two
“Culture and education have no bounds or limits; now man is in a phase in which he must decide for himself how far he can proceed in the culture that belongs to the whole of humanity.”
“Culture and ethics bind us as a family.”
Source: Breathing Two Worlds
“Culture and politics were inseparable [in the Sixties], which gave a soundtrack to political awareness and activism.”
“Culture and society determined sexual desirability as what makes us important so long that it's part of our sensibility from birth.Little girls know. From around 2 or 3, the pretty ones already know how and why they get attention. And how quickly they learn to play it. Use it. And how quickly the rest of us figure out we don't have it.”
“Culture and technology exist in a dynamic reciprocal relationship. Culture comprehends technology through the means of narratives or myths, and those narratives influence the future shape and purposes of technology. The culture-technology circuit is at the heart of cultural evolution.”
Source: Utopian Entrepreneur
“Culture and tradition have to change little by little. So 'new' means a little twist, a marriage of Japanese technique with French ingredients. My technique. Indian food, Korean food; I put Italian mozzarella cheese with sashimi. I don't think 'new new new.' I'm not a genius. A little twist.”
“Culture and, within culture, music are the best and most fascinating thing that the German capital has to offer internationally. It is putting that at risk.”
“Culture arises and unfolds in and as play... culture itself bears the character of play.”
“Culture arises only when the individual fulfills his cycle of obligations. If everyone recognizes and fulfills his cycle of obligations, genuineness emerges. The culture of a whole nation can in the final analysis be built upon nothing else.”
Source: The diary and letters of Kaethe Kollwitz
“Culture as art is the peak expression of man's creativity, his capacity to break out of nature's narrow bounds, and hence out of the degrading interpretation of man in modern natural and political science.”
“Culture as infrastructure describes the culture and cultural organizations that allow stakeholders to contest norms’ interpretations and adapt informal constraints in line with the goals of the global community, given the absence of enforcement mechanisms at a global level for formal constraints (i.e. laws and policies).”
Source: 5 Ideas from Global Diplomacy: System-wide Transformation Methods to Close the Compliance Gap and Advance the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals
“Culture as we're practicing it is causing a lot of pain.”
“Culture being a pursuit of our total perfection by means of getting to know, on all the matters which most concern us, the best which has been thought and said in the world.”
“Culture building starts with defining desired behaviors”
Source: HR Mastermind
“Culture can either further the cause of life,
Or it can hinder life, love and liberty.
If it hinders, it belongs in the dump,
If it furthers, it is an ally of humanity.”
Source: Amor Apocalypse: Canım Sana İhtiyacım
“Culture carries no privilege to exist. Cultures do not have value simply because they are. Some cultures, the world is better off without.”
Source: Soul Of The Fire
“Culture change starts on the inside.”
Source: Leadership That Rocks
“Culture change takes time, and NASA's culture is definitely improving. Based on its success, the change method is now being taken to each center agency-wide.”
“Culture changes with economic development.”
“Culture changes, fashions change, customs change. Great music is immortal.”
“Culture civilizes us, and that's why every single despotic regime has tried to smash [the arts].”
“Culture Clash Dylan says when I meet his mother today I shouldn't mention that I'm Jewish. I say okay, but can I tell her about the HIV postive thing? He gives me a look. I give him one back”
“Culture Clash is a national treasure.”
“Culture clash is terrific drama.”
“culture comes into play at precisely the point where biological individuals become subjects, and that what lies between the two is not some automatically constituted ‘natural’ process of socialization but much more complex processes of formation”
Source: Visual Culture: The Reader
“Culture consists of connections, not of separations: to specialize is to isolate.”
“Culture constitutes an essential element of social and political liberation. As people rise up across the Middle East and North Africa, the diversity of their cultures is not only the means but also the ultimate goal of their liberation and their freedom.”
“Culture contradicts all genetic capital. It is the touch of magic, the special touch which contradicts biology, heredity, etc. and condenses a whole dynasty into one generation.
What cannot be obtained in a single generation is ease and courage. Mutants are cowards.”
Source: Cool memories
“Culture creates awareness around issues, it entertains and saddens, it can encourage commitment to a social contract or strengthen personal hygiene in public. Culture is that powerful. Culture creates the icons we follow, that we see ourselves in, that we orient ourselves toward. It's culture that tells us to love or hate, accept or tolerate, embrace or reject.”
Source: How to Make White People Laugh
“Culture defines who we are and how we see ourselves. A new attitude toward nature provides space for a new attitude toward culture and the role it plays in sustainable development”
“Culture dictated from above is the enemy of folk music. Whether it's stuffy classical music or pre-engineered pop where somebody's paid tons of money to make sure that everyone hears this song a certain number of times a day - that feels like the opposite of folk music.”
“Culture does not make people - people make culture. So if it is in fact true that the full humanity of women is not our culture, we must make it our culture. [...] A feminist is a man or a woman who says, 'yes there is a problem with gender as it is today and we must fix it. We must do better.'”
“Culture does not make people. People make culture. If it is true that the full humanity of women is not our culture, then we can and must make it our culture.”
Source: We Should All Be Feminists
“Culture does not make people. People make culture.”
“Culture doesn't just change because it ought to. It changes because we decide to honestly assess the values, behaviours, and systems that are not working for us—not helping us thrive and flourish as a community—and replace them with ones that do.”
Source: Save Your City: How Toxic Culture Kills Community & What to Do About It
“Culture don't change because we desire it to change. Culture change when people transform their behaviours. Culture reflect the realities of people within the society.
This means that, we can decide when the cultures that draw us back will end.”
“Culture drives great results.”
“Culture eats Christianity for breakfast.”
“Culture eats strategy for breakfast.”
“Culture equals values plus behavior. Your values are who you are when you are at your natural best.”
“Culture exists and evolves to relegate to habit categories of interactions the constant conscious reference to which would make human interaction impossible.”
Source: The Secret Knowledge: On the Dismantling of American Culture
“Culture follows power.”
Source: The Post-American World: Release 2.0 (International Edition)
“Culture gives us each a sense that life has meaning and that we have value - by offering us assurances of immortality. Either literally, through the heavens, the soul's afterlives or reincarnation, or by the prospect that some vestige of ourselves will persist over time - from having kids, amassing great fortunes or producing great works of art or science. Yet no culturally constructed symbolic belief system is ever powerful enough to completely eradicate the anxiety that is engendered by the awareness of death.”
“Culture had worked in her own case, but during the last few weeks she had doubted whether it humanized the majority, so wide and so widening is the gulf that stretches between the natural and the philosophic man, so many the good chaps who are wrecked in trying to cross it.”
Source: Howards End
“Culture has always been more important than politics. Sometimes culture is a mirror that reflects what is; sometimes it's a search-light pointing the way to what will be.”
“Culture has become one of the last elements of our identity. We have to act in favor of cultural diversity abroad as well as at home, we need strong cultural diplomacy but we have to create it.”
“Culture has lead us to betray our own aboriginal spirit and wholeness, into an ever-worsening realm of synthetic, isolating, impoverishing estrangement. Which is not to say that there are no more everyday pleasures, without which we would loose our humanness. But as our plight deepens, we glimpse how much must be erased for our redemption.”
“Culture has never the translucidity of custom; it abhors all simplification. In its essence it is opposed to custom, for custom is always the deterioration of culture.”
Source: Damnés de la terre