C Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with C. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Culture is no excuse for abuse”
Source: FORCED TO MARRY HIM: A Lifetime of Tradition and the Will to Break It
“Culture is not a biologically transmitted complex”
Source: PATTERNS OF CULTURE
“Culture is not a matter of a change of climate.”
Source: Letters from a Self-Made Merchant to his Son
“Culture is not a surface phenomenon, it is our very care”
“Culture is not about upskilling the staff it is emotional intelligence training for the leader”
“Culture is not created by command. It creates itself, arising spontaneously from the necessities of men and their social cooperative activity. No ruler could ever command men to fashion the first tools, first use fire, invent the telescope and the steam engine, or compose the Iliad. Cultural values do not arise by direction of higher authorities. They cannot be compelled by dictates nor called into life by the resolution of legislative assemblies.”
“Culture is not DNA”
“Culture is not genetic. Rather, culture is learned behavior that is passed down from generation to generation and changes
over time. Yet, we so often associate culture and diversity with one’s appearance rather than with this learned behavior that changes with time, place, and context.”
Source: A Case of Culture: How Cultural Brokers Bridge Divides in Healthcare
“Culture is not just an ornament; it is the expression of a nation's character, and at the same time it is a powerful instrument to mould character. The end of culture is right living.”
“Culture is not made to fight, culture is made to stop fighting”
“Culture is not made up but something that evolves which is human.”
“Culture is not race and race is not culture.”
“Culture is not something that has been there from time immemorial, it is also not something that is frozen in time. Culture is in fact something that is dynamic and constantly changing, it absorbs new influences and modifies them to suit local requirements, it constantly appropriates from other traditions and also gives to them in equal measure.
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“Culture is not the decoration on the corporate cake. It is the yeast in the dough
-Brahmanand Savanth”
“Culture is not usually one of the criterion for personhood, but it has been argued that culture is sort of a medium for a lot of these criteria, such as empathy, and so on.”
“Culture is on the horns of this dilemma: if profound and noble it must remain rare, if common it must become mean.”
Source: The Life of Reason: Human Understanding
“Culture is one of the two or three most complicated words in the English language.”
Source: Keywords: A Vocabulary of Culture and Society
“Culture is one thing and varnish is another.”
Source: The Heart of Emerson's Journals
“Culture is only true when implicitly critical, and the mind which forgets this revenges itself in the critics it breeds. Criticism is an indispensable element of culture.”
Source: Prisms
“Culture is perishing in overproduction, in an avalanche of words, in the madness of quantity.”
“culture is pigeon-holing –
it disposes of the world
yet takes away its freedom”
Source: Within the event horizon: poetry & prose
“Culture is properly described as the love of perfection; it is a study of perfection.”
“Culture is public, because meaning is”
Source: The Interpretation of Cultures: Selected Essays
“Culture is religion externalized.”
“Culture is religion incarnate.”
“Culture is simply a shared way of doing something with passion.”
“Culture is simply the hospitality of the intellect. Your mind is open to new ideas and larger views; when they enter, you know how to receive them, and to entertain, to be entertained, and take what they have to offer without allowing them to dominate you.”
“Culture is simultaneously the fruit of a people's history and a determinant of history.”
Source: Unity and Struggle: Speeches and Writings of Amilcar Cabral
“Culture is so incredibly important because it is the foundation for all future innovation. People with passion can change the world.”
“Culture is so much faster and so much more effective than anything else. If you go on a march, you march for a couple hours and it might be on the news that night, but if it happens culturally, it happens forever. Everywhere in the world, that TV show is being played. Someone is downloading it illegally. It's blowing someone else's mind. Culture marches so quickly, and it's a language we all understand.”
“Culture is something that we all share and we are all the poorer for anyone excluded from it.”
“Culture is sustained in our synapses...It's more than what can be reduced to binary code and uploaded onto the Net. To remain vital, culture must be renewed in the minds of the members of every generation. Outsource memory, and culture withers.”
“Culture is taking the background you come from and either running with it or running from it.”
“Culture is taking whatever background you come from and either running with it or running from it.”
“Culture is that which falsifies.”
Source: Literal Madness: Three Novels
“Culture is the ability to describe Jane Russell without moving your hands”
“Culture is the arts elevated to a set of beliefs.”
“Culture is the best society has to offer...How can we pass on civilization to those who do not value civilization. (Terrence Rattigan)”
Source: The Picaresque of Imagine Purple
“Culture is the celebration of diversity. Let us therefore not deny our origin; but instead celebrate ours as a cultural mosaic not a tower of Babel , but a power of Babel”
Source: Cultural Forces in World Politics
“Culture is the collective programming of the mind which distinguishes the members of one group from another.”
Source: Culture's Consequences: International Differences in Work-Related Values
“Culture is the constant constraint that controls creativity, commitment, collaboration, and cohesion.”
“Culture is the deeper level of basic assumptions and beliefs that are shared by members of an organization, that operate unconsciously and define in a basic 'taken for granted' fashion an organization's view of its self and its environment.”
“Culture is the greatest barrier to your enlightenment, your education, and your decency.”
“Culture is the heritage of us all. some may be more interested than others in the treasures of the past, but no one can fail to take a pride in his country's participation in the story of mankind, as represented in carvings, sculpture, music, paintings and the other arts. And there is a personal commitment to this, for no man can really say he is alone: we are all joined through our identity, with the cultures which are part of the mainstream of life”
“Culture is the intersection between people and dealing with the journey of life itself. How to deal with life, how a people deals with life is literally manifested in its culture, in its food, in its music, in its art, in the way you dance, the way you communicate.”
“Culture is the intersection of people and life itself. Its how we deal with life, love, death, birth, disappointment... all of that is expressed in culture.”
“Culture is the most potent method of adaptation that has emerged in the evolutionary history of the living world. - Theodosius Dobzhanksky...the 'facts' of culture history are interpretations based upon assumed culture process.”
“Culture is the name for what people are interested in, their thoughts, their models, the books they read and the speeches they hear, their table-talk, gossip, controversies, historical sense and scientific training, the values they appreciate, the quality of life they admire. All communities have a culture. It is the climate of their civilization.”
Source: The Essential Lippmann: A Political Philosophy for Liberal Democracy
“Culture is the one thing that we cannot deliberately aim at. It is the product of a variety of more or less harmonious activities, each pursued for its own sake.”
Source: Notes towards the Definition of Culture
“Culture is the passion for sweetness and light, and (what is more) the passion for making them prevail.”