C Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with C. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Culture is the possibility and impossibility that bacon and fruit can appear on the same plate.”
“Culture is the process by which a person becomes all that they were created capable of being.”
“Culture is the study of perfection, and the constant effort to achieve it.”
Source: Essays of Four Decades
“Culture is the sum of all the forms of art, of love, and of thought, which, in the coarse or centuries, have enabled man to be less enslaved”
“Culture is the sum of the values, beliefs and assumptions of human groups.”
Source: Innovation Book, The: How to Manage Ideas and Execution for Outstanding Results
“Culture is the tacit agreement to let the means of subsistence disappear behind the purpose of existence.”
“Culture is the underlying foundation of how we think, behave, and react.”
Source: Discover Cultural Intelligence: Your New Superpower
“Culture is the widening of the mind and of the spirit.”
Source: Jawaharlal Nehru's speeches
“Culture is the widening of the mind and of the spirit. It is never a narrowing of the mind or a restriction of the human spirit or the country's spirit.”
Source: Speeches
“Culture is this thing that we can exchange among ourselves as human beings to knock aside our differences and build upon our similarities. Cultural exchange is the ultimate exchange.”
“Culture is to know the best that has been said and thought in the world.”
“Culture is very important to the Mavs.... It isn't about who talks the most or the loudest. It is about the demeanor and attitude he brings.”
“Culture is what a group of people believes to be acceptable and unacceptable behavior.”
Source: Culture for the Left-Brained Leader: Strategy, Tactics, and Implementation for Transformative Results
“Culture is what people invent when they have lost nature.”
Source: The Rarest of the Rare: Vanishing Animals, Timeless Worlds
“Culture is worth a little risk.”
“Culture is your operating system.”
“Culture isn't fluff. It's infrastructure.”
“Culture isn't all just about what can be tweaked and twitched in the simplest possible way. As people move around, they literally don't see what's around them, because they're wedded to earworms that are burrowing into their heads endlessly in a kind of negotiation with these tiny screens.”
“Culture itself is neither education nor law-making: it is an atmosphere and a heritage.”
Source: Minority Report
“Culture jamming is enjoying a resurgence, in part because of technological advancements but also more pertinently, because of the good old rules of supply and demand. Something not far from the surfaces of the public psyche is delighted to see the icons of corporate power subverted and mocked. There is, in short, a market for it. With commercialism able to overpower the traditional authority of religion, politics and schools, corporations have emerged a the natural targets for all sorts of free-floating rage and rebellion. The new ethos that culture jamming taps into is go-for-the-corporate-jugular.”
Source: No Logo
“Culture, like science, is no protection against demons.”
“Culture looks beyond machinery, culture hates hatred; culture has one great passion, the passion for sweetness and light.”
“Culture looks beyond machinery, culture hates hatred; culture has one great passion--the passion for sweetness and light. It has one even yet greater, the passion for making them all prevail. It is not satisfied till we all come to a perfect man; it knows that the sweetness and light of the few must be imperfect until the raw and unkindly masses of humanity are touched with sweetness and light.”
Source: Delphi Complete Poetical Works of Matthew Arnold (Illustrated)
“Culture makes pain tolerable by interpreting it's necessity; only pain perceived as curable is intolerable.”
Source: Limits to medicine
“Culture makes people understand each other better. And if they
understand each other better in their soul, it is easier to overcome the economic and political barriers. But first they have to understand that their neighbour is, in the end, just like them, with the same problems, the same questions.”
“Culture makes the whole world our dwelling place; our palace in which we take our ease and find ourselves at one with all things.”
Source: Aphorisms and Reflections: Conduct, Culture and Religion
“Culture matters. Of course, if physicians are rewarded or penalized for their service and results, the culture will change. But the key values we doctors are being pressed to embrace are humility, teamwork, and discipline.”
“Culture may be different but humanity will always be one”
“Culture means control over nature.”
“Culture means the perfect and equal development of man on all sides.”
Source: The Writings of John Burroughs: I-[XV] ...
“Culture means, I think, that you have widened your experience enough through reading and through being a little bit thoughtful about these things that it has changed your outlook in some ways. And not necessarily made you a better human being but made you see things.”
“Culture must have its ultimate aim in the metaphysical or it will cease to be culture.”
“Culture now spreads at central nervous system speed. It’s a shame that compassion doesn’t.”
“Culture of dependency leads to a life of slavery, being totally dependent upon government. And government dictates where they go in life.”
“Culture of fakeness.”
“Culture of life is really important for a country to have if it's going to be a hospitable society.”
“Culture of the mind must be subservient to the heart.”
Source: The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi
“Culture opens our hearts to one another. And the currency in culture is not money, but trust.”
“Culture or civilization, taken in its wide ethnographic sense, is that complex whole which includes knowledge, belief, art, morals, law, custom, and any other capabilities and habits acquired by man as a member of society”
Source: Primitive Culture
“Culture outperforms strategy every time; and culture with strategy is unbeatable.”
“Culture preaches monogamy while Nature repeats it—over and over again.”
Source: Delusionism
“Culture represents a novelty in the world of nature, and it could have added an effective, unifying edge to the forces of natural selection.”
“Culture represents the most important exchange currency of a civilization!”
“Culture requires in the first place a certain balance of material and spiritual values.”
“Culture’s voice is loud, and even the Christian subculture voice is. I remember noticing this in my late teen years. Maybe I am on an island by myself here, but all through late teen years, I was not preparing for working responsibilities. I was preparing to have them. People kept telling me I was going to have a wife, have children, have a home, and have a career. I was preparing to have all of those and was totally naïve to the fact that in order for them to thrive, they would need work, or they would all die.”
Source: Reviving Fatherhood: Guiding Every Dad from First Steps to Lasting Legacy
“CULTURE SAYS: If you've got lots of money, relax; you're standing on thick ice.
WHAT GOD HAS TAUGHT ME: If you've got lots of money, be watchful; you're standing on thin ice.”
Source: Saved from Success: How God Can Free You from Culture’s Distortion of Family, Work, and the Good Life
“Culture shapes the language, Language shapes the culture. When you absorb another language, It reshapes your mental atmosphere.”
Source: Amantes Assemble: 100 Sonnets of Servant Sultans
“Culture should be a path, not a prison.”
Source: Sleepless for Society
“Culture shouldn't be a pacifying thing. It shouldn't be something that you just passively accept. I think it should be something that, in some ways, is quite disruptive - makes you think and question things, and actually sparks debate.”
“Culture stereotypes women to fit the myth by flattening the feminine into beauty-without-intelligence or intelligence-without-beauty; women are allowed a mind or a body but not both.”
Source: The Beauty Myth