C Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with C. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Culture supreme is inclusion.”
Source: Yaralardan Yangın Doğar: Explorers of Night are Emperors of Dawn
“Culture, then, only truly becomes culture when it is embodied in someone.”
Source: Destruction and Sorrow beneath the Heavens: Reportage
“Culture transcends state,
Liberty transcends law.
Conscience transcends scripture.”
Source: Aşk Mafia: Armor of The World
“Culture uses art to dream the deaths of beautiful women.”
Source: Over Her Dead Body: Death, Femininity and the Aesthetic
“Culture war is only possible when Americans look to their government to establish a cultural template for the nation but disagree about what that template should look like. Another way of putting it: culture war is the natural consequence of nationalism because people will inevitably fight over the definition of the “nation,” especially who counts as a member of the nation.”
Source: The Religion of American Greatness: What’s Wrong with Christian Nationalism
“Culture wars' are really undeclared 'gene wars”
“Culture which smooth the whole world licks, Also unto the devil sticks.”
Source: Faust: A Tragedy
“Culture' is a finite segment of the meaningless infinity of the world process, a segment on which human beings confer meaning and significance.”
Source: On the Methodology of the Social Sciences
“Culture' means a long receptivity to things of the mind and the spirit.”
Source: Modes and Morals
“Culture's essential service to a religion is to destroy intellectual idolatry, the recurrent tendency in religion to replace the object of its worship with its present understanding and forms of approach to that object.”
Source: Anatomy of Criticism
“Culture's worth huge, huge risks. Without culture we're all totalitarian beasts.”
“Culture, as Indian people understood it, was basically a lifestyle by which a people acted. It was self-expression, but not a conscious self-expression. Rather, it was an expression of the essence of a
people.”
Source: Custer Died For Your Sins: An Indian Manifesto
“Culture, far from giving us freedom, only develops, as it advances, new necessities; the fetters of the physical close more tightly around us, so that the fear of loss quenches even the ardent impulse toward improvement, and the maxims of passive obedience are held to be the highest wisdom of life.”
Source: Aesthetical Essays of Schiller: Top Classic of German
“Culture, like the kingdom of heaven, lies within us, and not in foreign galleries and books.”
Source: History of a Literary Radical and Other Essays
“Culture, the acquainting ourselves with the best that has been known and said in the world, and thus with the history of the human spirit.”
“Culture, then, is a study of perfection, and perfection which insists on becoming something rather than in having something, in an inward condition of the mind and spirit, not in an outward set of circumstances.”
“Culture, what you believe, what you value, how you live matters. Now, as fundamental as these principles are, they may become topics of democratic debates from time to time, so it is today with the enduring institution of marriage. Marriage is a relationship between a man and a woman.”
“Culture, when it comes to food, is of course a fancy word for your mom.”
“Culture, which by definition serves no purpose, has now found a role as the consort of business. Right off the bat we have a beached whale, since there is nothing that disdains culture as much as business does. ... In fact, 'corporate culture' is nothing more than the crystallization of the stupidity of a group of people at a given moment.”
“Culture, which makes talent shine, is not completely ours either, nor can we place it solely at our disposal. Rather, it belongs mainly to our country, which gave it to us, and to humanity, from which we receive it as a birthright.”
“Culture, with its processes and functions, is a subject upon which we need all the enlightenment we can achieve, and there is no direction in which we can seek with greater reward than in the facts of pre-literate societies.”
Source: PATTERNS OF CULTURE
“Culture: the cry of men in face of their destiny.”
Source: Carnets: 1935-1942
“Cultures and climates differ all over the world, but people are the same. They’ll gather in public if you give them a good place to do it.”
“Cultures are like Pokemon - gotta catch em all!”
“Cultures are made of continuities and changes, and the identity of a society can survive through these changes. Societies without change aren't authentic; they're just dead”
“Cultures are naturally resistant to change. The same shared mental models that allow large numbers of people to work together efficiently can also keep people from imagining new ways of working together. In many corporate cultures, new ideas are viewed as heresy. But it doesn't have to be that way.”
“Cultures are never merely intellectual constructs. They take form through the collective intelligence and memory, through a commonly held psychology and emotions, through spiritual and artistic communion.”
Source: Islam and the Arab Awakening
“Cultures are not the source of all morals, only a limited set of morals. Cultures can be graded and judged morally according to their contribution to the evolution of life.”
Source: LILA An Inquriry into Morals
“Cultures are not very easy to change. They're sometimes almost impossible to change.”
“Cultures are virtual realities made of language.”
“Cultures aren’t so much planned as they evolve from that early set of people.”
“Cultures cherish artists because they are people who can say, Look at that.”
“Cultures grow on the vine of tradition.”
“Cultures have gone down and rebuilt again and I'm sure we're all facing the same level of extinction.”
“Cultures have long heard wisdom in non-human voices: Apollo, god of music, medicine and knowledge, came to Delphi in the form of a dolphin. But dolphins, which fill the oceans with blipping and chirping, and whales, which mew and caw in ultramarine jazz - a true rhapsody in blue - are hunted to the edge of silence.”
“Cultures of permission valorized bad taste as liberation.”
Source: Private Citizens
“Cultures produce myths because they satisfy a deep-rooted human need: the need to make sense of life. Myths are appealing because they reduce the complexity of experience, by making things seem simple and absolute; myths define popular realities which are accepted readily, even uncritically.”
“Cultures should not be like water that dissolves them evenly, but like colours that stand out distinctly.”
“Cultures that don't laugh at themselves are cults.”
“Cultures that may seem as durable as stone can break like glass, leaving all the things that held them together unattended. I believe that the craftsman, the artist, the cook, and the silversmith are peacemakers. They instill grace; they lull the world to calm.”
Source: House of Stone: A Memoir of Home, Family, and a Lost Middle East
“Cultures the world over consider their staple the incarnation of God: Buffalo for the Cheyenne, Corn for the Hopi, Cattle for the Massai, Wheat (bread) for the Christians. What I've seen about hunting and gathering peoples, they are the only ones who can fully grasp and accept the Holy Communion. (Funny how we think we have to cram our little wafers down their throats.) All life forms are the sacrificial victim—there's absolutely no exception; all are food.”
Source: The Man Who Quit Money
“Cultures throughout the world and throughout history that developed stable, sustainable relationships with nature did so through observation—a primary principle in permaculture.”
“Cultures, for better or worse, are very stable.”
“Cultures, when they meet, influence one another, whether people like it or not. But Americans don't have any way of describing this secret that has been going on for more than two hundred years. The intermarriage of the Indian and the African in America, for example, has been constant and thorough. Colin Powell tells us in his autobiography that he is Scotch, Irish, African, Indian, and British, but all we hear is that he is African.”
“Cultuur is als een bloemkool.”
“Cultuurverandering mag nooit een doel op zich zijn, maar moet onderdeel zijn van en passen bij een hoger liggend doel dat je als organisatie of team wilt bereiken.”
Source: De cultuurladder: De sleutel tot een presterende organisatie
“Cum acolo unde face ce face, el
nu este: Cum atunci când face nu este:
De-aici baza înstrăinării noastre de sine.
- Marx, în 1844”
Source: Half-light: Collected Poems 1965-2016
“Cum am sărutat prima fată -asta a fost demult-, n-am simțit decât un gust de carne. Un gust de mână. Parcă sărutasem o mână în plus. Abia după vreo două zile m-a apucat o fericire. Așa din senin.”
“Cum au putut atâtea spirite alese să fie atrase de o mișcare criminală e o întrebare nelalocul ei. „Spiritele alese” au fost atrase de idealismul mișcării, idealism care, în exces, a condus pe de altă parte la o barbarie fără margini.”
Source: Capcanele istoriei. Elita intelectuală românească între 1930 şi 1950
“Cum cogitaveris quot te antecedant, respice quot sequantur [«Si alguna vez piensas en los que van por delante de ti, piensa en cuántos te siguen»”