C Quotes
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“Culture has the single greatest impact on your bottom line.”
Source: How to Hire and Keep Great People
“Culture has to be constantly on the vanguard, too. It should be educating people, as it does in Latin America: thousands of great theatres, art cinemas, millions of free books distributed by the governments, public poetry readings, free public lectures, and all sorts of bookstores are open until early mornings, exhibitions reacting to the needs and sorrows of society, concerts of engaged music.”
“Culture hides more than it reveals, and strangely enough what it hides, it hides most effectively from its own participants.”
“Culture in America and everywhere else comes from the suffering, from those who don't want the old ways. They want to bring in the new, whether it's the ballet, when it started, or Shakespeare.”
“Culture in any place always goes top down, never bottom up. We need to step back and look at what kind of environment we have created for ourselves and those around us. It is tough to expect positive behavior in a negative environment. Where lawlessness becomes the law, honest citizens become cheats, crooks and thieves.”
Source: You Can Win : A Step by Step Tool for Top Achievers
“Culture in its higher forms is a delicate plant which depends on a complicated set of conditions and is wont to flourish only in a few places at any given time.”
Source: The Albert Einstein Collection: Essays in Humanism, The Theory of Relativity, and The World As I See It
“Culture integrated is culture empowered.”
Source: Amantes Assemble: 100 Sonnets of Servant Sultans
“Culture is a fibreglass condom suit - highly restrictive, uncomfortable and itchy as hell.”
Source: Sex, Death, Drugs & Madness
“Culture is a matrix of infinite possibilities and choices. From within the same culture matrix we can extract arguments and strategies for the degradation and ennoblement of our species, for its enslavement or liberation, for the suppression of its productive potential or its enhancement.”
“Culture is a perversion. It fetishizes objects, creates consumer mania, it preaches endless forms of false happiness, endless forms of false understanding in the form of squirrelly religions and silly cults. It invites people to diminish themselves and dehumanize themselves by behaving like machines.”
“Culture is a plot against the expansion of consciousness.”
“Culture is a product of law. And laws create norms for society. This is why anyone who wants to change the culture of a country must try to change the norms of the country.”
“Culture is a sham if it is only a sort of Gothic front put on an iron building -- like Tower Bridge -- or a classical front put on a steel frame -- like the Daily Telegraph building in Fleet Street. Culture, if it is to be a real thing and a holy thing, must be the product of what we actually do for a living -- not something added, like sugar on a pill.”
Source: Distributist Perspectives: Volume II: Essays on the Economics of Justice and Charity
“Culture is a simplification and a lie. It's the currency by which fools navigate the world. Smart people get beyond it.”
“Culture is a slingshot moved by the force of its past”
Source: The Poisonwood Bible
“Culture is a way of coping with the world by defining it in detail.”
“Culture is a window reflecting the history, culture and spiritual world of a nation, .. Cultural exchange is a bridge to enhance the mutual understanding and friendship between the people of different nations.”
“Culture is activity of thought, and receptiveness to beauty and humane feeling. Scraps of information have nothing to do with it. A merely well informed man is the most useless bore on God's earth.”
Source: Aims of Education
“Culture is already there and the church will continue to be even more irrelevant when it quotes letters from two thousand years ago as their best defense. When you have in front of you flesh and blood people who are your brothers and sisters, aunts and uncles, co-workers and neighbors and they love each other and they just want to go through life with someone.”
“Culture is always about politics in the end.”
“Culture is always the echo of economic realities; that's what Marx teaches. Feminism is a clear example of that.”
“Culture is an abstraction; it cannot actually be seen or touched.... We see people acting in agreed-upon ways in the face of similar situations...we notice people moving their bodies in certain ways - making choices in their lives about where to live, what to eat, how to learn, how to work and love - in response to similar events and experiences, and say: "oh, these people belong to the same culture".”
“Culture is an elevated expression of the inner voice which the different peoples of the Earth have heard in the depths of their being, a voice which conveys the vibrant compassion and wisdom of the cosmic life. For different cultures to engage in interaction is to catalyze each other's souls and foster mutual understanding.”
“Culture is an identity and identity is a weapon which can work its way around strong foundations decaying them from the inside with the help of wrecking beliefs known as superstitions. However, every culture must have a superstition without which its uniqueness is lost.”
Source: Solemn Tales of Human Hearts
“Culture is an indispensable weapon in the freedom struggle.”
Source: By any means necessary
“Culture is an instrument wielded by professors to manufacture professors, who when their turn comes will manufacture professors.”
“Culture is Anarchistic if it is alive at all.”
Source: The Anarchist in the Library: How the Clash Between Freedom and Control Is Hacking the Real World and Crashing the System
“Culture is another dimension.”
“Culture is both an intellectual phenomenon and a moral one”
“Culture is coded wisdom”
“Culture is defined, really, by the artists who record what the everyday experience is like and then translate it to a common piece of art that all people can respond and relate to.”
“Culture is dependent upon the society.”
Source: Destiny of Liberty
“Culture is everything you don't have to do.”
“Culture is everything. Culture is the way we dress, the way we carry our heads, the way we walk, the way we tie our ties - it is not only the fact of writing books or building houses.”
“Culture is for old people. When you're young you have your body, and that's all you need.”
“Culture is fundamental. Literature saves you. Cinema saves you.”
“Culture is how biology responds and makes its living conditions better.”
“Culture' is, in sum, at an historical turning point. Emerging in the late nineteenth century as an abstract analytical and political concept, explicitly associated with concepts of inequality, and still now a useful component in the production and reproduction of state power, it seems to be increasingly shaken loose from its rootedness in the state, as difference comes to be directly produced by the policies and practices of state, without invoking culture.”
Source: Living Indian Histories: Lumbee and Tuscarora People in North Carolina
“Culture is invited to the table usually only as raw material that needs no analysis.”
“Culture is just a shambling zombie that repeats what it did in life; bits of it drop off, and it doesn't appear to notice.”
“Culture is like a forest. The seeds are your core values. Once they take root as behaviours, they can grow into trees, populating your cultural forest. Bad seeds produce unhealthy forests, infertile, and plagued by infestations. Good seeds produce a healthy forest and ecosystems that support life. One is sustainable, the other is simply not.”
Source: Save Your City: How Toxic Culture Kills Community & What to Do About It
“Culture is like a smog. To live
within it, you must breathe some of it in and, inevitably, be
contaminated.”
Source: Altered Carbon
“Culture is like the current of the ocean. Where has it taken your marriage?”
“Culture is like the sum of special knowledge that accumulates in any large united family and is the common property of all its members. When we of the great Culture Family meet, we exchange reminiscences about Grandfather Homer, and that awful old Dr. Johnson, and Aunt Sappho, and poor Johnny Keats.”
Source: Complete Essays: 1920-1925
“Culture is like the visible and invisible levels of an iceberg -”the solid state of “water.”
Source: Digital Valley: Five Pearls of Wisdom to Make Profound Influence
“Culture is like wealth; it makes us more ourselves, it enables us to express ourselves”
Source: Human Intercourse
“Culture is more and more consciously becoming a project carried out in the domain of language by, for instance, propaganda both governmental and commercial.”
“Culture is more important than vision. Some leaders have great vision, but have created a toxic culture where that vision will never happen.”
“Culture is more often a source of conflict than of synergy. Cultural differences are a nuisance at best and often a disaster.”
“Culture is nested in context, not genes.”
Source: The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century