
Ray Bradbury
You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.
Orhan Pamuk
Culture is mix. Culture means a mix of things from other sources. And my town, Istanbul, was this kind of mix. Istanbul, in fact, and my work, is a testimony to the fact that East and West combine cultural gracefully, or sometimes in an anarchic way, came together, and that is what we should search for.

Orhan Pamuk
Istanbul is a vast place. There are very conservative neighbourhoods, there are places that are upper class, Westernised, consuming Western culture.

Anderson Cooper
The whole celebrity culture thing - I'm fascinated by, and repelled by, and yet I end up knowing about it.

Antonin Artaud
Never tire yourself more than necessary, even if you have to found a culture on the fatigue of your bones.

David Byrne
So there's no guarantee if you like the music you will empathize with the culture and the people who made it. It doesn't necessarily happen. I think it can, but it doesn't necessarily happen. Which is kind of a shame.

Aung San Suu Kyi
I've been repeating ad nauseam that we in Burma, we are weak with regard to the culture of negotiated compromises, that we have to develop the ability to achieve such compromises.
August Wilson
From Borges, those wonderful gaucho stories from which I learned that you can be specific as to a time and place and culture and still have the work resonate with the universal themes of love, honor, duty, betrayal, etc. From Amiri Baraka, I learned that all art is political, although I don't write political plays.

Orhan Pamuk
The fictive structure, my work, my imagination, my books are about the details, the huge construction about culture, Islamic culture or modern Turkey. They're all intertwined.
David Byrne
I encourage people not to be passive consumers of music and of culture in general. And feeling like, yeah, you can enjoy the products of professionals, but that doesn't mean you don't have to completely give up the reins and give up every connection to music or whatever it happens to be.
![When I was a child, when I was an adolescent, books saved me from despair: that convinced me that culture was the highest of values[...].](https://quotes.thefamouspeople.com/images/quotes/simone-de-beauvoir-48932.jpg)
Simone de Beauvoir
When I was a child, when I was an adolescent, books saved me from despair: that convinced me that culture was the highest of values[...].

Dorothea Lange
Seeing is more than a physiological phenomenon... We see not only with our eyes but with all that we are and all that our culture is. The artist is a professional see-er.

Robert A. Heinlein
A dying culture invariably exhibits personal rudeness. Bad manners. Lack of consideration for others in minor matters. A loss of politeness, of gentle manners, is more significant than is a riot.

Mike Pence
People need to understand, we can come together as a nation. We can create a culture of life. More and more young people today are embracing life because we know we are - we're better for it.

Daisaku Ikeda
Life is painful. It has thorns, like the stem of a rose. Culture and art are the roses that bloom on the stem. The flower is yourself, your humanity. Art is the liberation of the humanity inside yourself.

Orhan Pamuk
Museums are western inventions where the rich and the powerful or the government and the state tend to exhibit the signs and symbol and images of their culture.

Allen Ginsberg
Whoever controls the media, the images, controls the culture.

Elton John
On Keith Richards: He's like a monkey with arthritis.

Germaine Greer
English culture is basically homosexual in the sense that the men only really care about other men.

W. H. Auden
It's a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more money writing or talking about his art than he can by practicing it.
Abraham Cowley
I never had any other desire so strong, and so like covetousness, as that ... I might be master at last of a small house and a large garden, with very moderate conveniences joined to them, and there dedicate the remainder of my life to the culture of them and the study of nature.

Hillary Clinton
When I traveled as secretary of state, I was deluged with thick briefing books full of information about the politics, economy, and culture of each destination, so those took up most of my reading time.

Danny Kaye
Children are the same the world over. They may have a different culture, but an ache or a laugh is universal.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Hatred is something peculiar. You will always find it strongest and most violent where there is the lowest degree of culture.

Plato
Those who are able to see beyond the shadows and lies of their culture will never be understood, let alone believed, by the masses.
![When I traveled through Greece in the '90s, everything [Albert Hoxie] taught me came flooding back and I was able to appreciate the art and culture much more because of him.](https://quotes.thefamouspeople.com/images/quotes/kareem-abdul-jabbar-138027.jpg)
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
When I traveled through Greece in the '90s, everything [Albert Hoxie] taught me came flooding back and I was able to appreciate the art and culture much more because of him.

Robert F. Kennedy
American books reflect our common heritage with many other nations and their influence upon our culture. The influences are endless, linking us with the rest of the world. Thus, they are good ambassadors for us.
![Culture civilizes us, and that's why every single despotic regime has tried to smash [the arts].](https://quotes.thefamouspeople.com/images/quotes/cate-blanchett-107160.jpg)
Cate Blanchett
Culture civilizes us, and that's why every single despotic regime has tried to smash [the arts].

Marcus Garvey
A people without the knowledge of their past history, origin and culture is like a tree without roots.

New Orleans is one of the most exciting, incredible communities in the world. There's such a rich culture and history, and there are innumerable things to do.
![Culture and politics were inseparable [in the Sixties], which gave a soundtrack to political awareness and activism.](https://quotes.thefamouspeople.com/images/quotes/kareem-abdul-jabbar-137985.jpg)
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
Culture and politics were inseparable [in the Sixties], which gave a soundtrack to political awareness and activism.

Rollo May
Every human being must have a point at which he stands against the culture, where he says, this is me and the damned world can go to hell.

Michelle Obama
The problem is when that fun stuff becomes the habit. And I think that's what's happened in our culture. Fast food has become the everyday meal.
George Clooney
In the '60s, when I was growing up, one of the great elements of American culture was the protest song. There were songs about the civil rights movement, the women's rights movement, the antiwar movement. It wasn't just Bob Dylan, it was everybody at the time.

Alan Moore
Authority allows two roles: the torturer and the tortured. Twists people into joyless mannequins that fear and hate, while culture plunges into the abyss.

Winona Ryder
As a teenager, I worked on Indian reservations, and it was such an incredible culture: the elders are so respected.

Dallas Willard
We live in a culture that has, for centuries now, cultivated the idea that the skeptical person is always smarter than one who believes. You can almost be as stupid as a cabbage as long as you doubt.

Ayn Rand
Is it advisable to spread out all the conveniences of culture before people to whom a few steps up a stair to a library is a sufficient deterrent from reading?

Jim Brown
You have to put money in its proper perspective. The way it is positioned in the culture is like it is the most important thing. But something is missing.

Richard Dawkins
The Bible should be taught, but emphatically not as reality. It is fiction, myth, poetry, anything but reality. As such it needs to be taught because it underlies so much of our literature and our culture.

Khaled Hosseini
He said that if culture is a house, then language was the key to the front door; to all the rooms inside. Without it, he said, you ended up wayward, without a proper home or a legitimate identity.

Dalai Lama
I think really, China, Chinese, I think they really have a long history of civilization, rich culture.

Michael Bloomberg
I'm trying to change the culture in New York City; that's hard enough!

Charles Darwin
The highest possible stage in moral culture is when we recognise that we ought to control our thoughts.

Mark Ruffalo
Actors, like it or not, their voices carry deeply into the culture: people look towards them for attitudes, for right or wrong, and today, the mainstream media doesn't really balance the unheard.

Jack Welch
CEOs can talk and blab each day about culture, but the employees all know who the jerks are. They could name the jerks for you. It's just cultural. People just don't want to do it.

Idris Elba
The one album I can't live without is called 'Cumbolo' by a band called Culture. Every song on their album is deep, but there's one in particular called 'This Train.' I have a tattoo of the lyrics on my left arm.
Jack Welch
Public hangings are teaching moments. Every company has to do it. A teaching moment is worth a thousand CEO speeches. CEOs can talk and blab each day about culture, but the employees all know who the jerks are. They could name the jerks for you. It's just cultural. People just don't want to do it.

Jack Welch
If you don't have public hangings for bad culture in a company, if you don't take people out and let them say, they went home to spend more time with the family. It's crazy.

Gloria Steinem
The origins of violence against women by men are not biological. If that were the case, it would exist in every culture. And it doesn't exist in every culture.

Tim Cook
I am very bullish on India because of its people, its culture, and the leadership. I love the culture and warmth of people.

Satya Nadella
Culture change means we will do things differently.

Michael Pollan
The shared meal elevates eating from a mechanical process of fueling the body to a ritual of family and community, from the mere animal biology to an act of culture.

Eva Mendes
We see everything. We see what celebrities buy at the supermarket. It's ridiculous. It's that visibility. I'm confused by this whole celebrity-obsessed culture.

Christoph Waltz
I’m not really all that familiar with comic book culture.

Muhammad Iqbal
I lead no party; I follow no leader. I have given the best part of my life to careful study of Islam, its law and polity, its culture, its history and its literature.

Olga Kurylenko
With modelling, you go somewhere for 24 hours and you don't even see the city, you don't talk to people or see the culture.

Muhammad Iqbal
Vision without power does bring moral elevation but cannot give a lasting culture.

Sarah Michelle Gellar
I've always been fascinated by Asian culture, and I love that women can play the lead in a horror film.

Kevin Smith
The writer crafts their ideal world. In my world, everyone has really long conversations or just picks apart pop culture to death and everyone talks in monologue.

Kendrick Lamar
People are used to music that justifies street culture but something that's not touched on is why these kids act the way they act, live the way they live.

Amitabh Bachchan
Foreigners have no idea of the diversity of India and its culture. We hope to be able to give them a glimpse of that diversity.

Terence McKenna
The imagination is the goal of history. I see culture as an effort to literally realize our collective dreams.

Robert Duvall
Some Russian ballet master woman said there's no culture in America, but if you look you can find interesting stuff in this country, don't you think?

Wale
My job is to inspire the people, to be on top of my game and push my culture forward.
Pope Francis
Together with a culture of work, there must be a culture of leisure as gratification. To put it another way: people who work must take the time to relax, to be with their families, to enjoy themselves, read, listen to music, play a sport.

Viktor Frankl
To the European, it is a characteristic of the American culture that, again and again, one is commanded and ordered to 'be happy.' But happiness cannot be pursued; it must ensue. One must have a reason to 'be happy.'

Roland Barthes
The bastard form of mass culture is humiliated repetition... always new books, new programs, new films, news items, but always the same meaning.

Priyanka Chopra
I sang the 'Sunday Night Football' theme song two years in a row - my first part in American culture, although I still don't know anything about American football.

Mick Jagger
In England you're skewered on the altar of pop culture if you become pretentious.

Cesar Chavez
Preservation of one's own culture does not require contempt or disrespect for other cultures.

Guy Fieri
I have a fond appreciation for the Canadian culture and the Canadian food scene in general.

Tim Cook
Apple has a culture of excellence that is, I think, so unique and so special. I'm not going to witness or permit the change of it.

Milan Kundera
Culture is perishing in overproduction, in an avalanche of words, in the madness of quantity.

Cynthia Nixon
I'm fairly out of the loop when it comes to pop culture.

Jack Ma
The world is getting so small. Young people are mobile; they want to travel around the world. When you travel around the world, you exchange culture, you want to make friends, you want to exchange things.

Iris Murdoch
The most essential and fundamental aspect of culture is the study of literature, since this is an education in how to picture and understand human situations.

Lecrae Moore
We spend so much time condemning, critiquing, and copying culture we miss on actually changing it. Be a creator not a hater.

Lady Gaga
Glam culture is ultimately rooted in obsession, and those of us who are truly devoted and loyal to the lifestyle of glamour are masters of its history. Or, to put it more elegantly, we are librarians.

H. P. Lovecraft
The man or nation of high culture may acknowledge to great lengths the restraints imposed by conventions and honour, but beyond a certain point, primitive will or desire cannot be curbed.

Brad Pitt
I loved 'Saturday Night Fever' when I was a kid. I couldn't believe people talked that way. It was just a whole new culture I didn't understand. I snuck into it. It was an R-rated film. So it holds a special place.

Al Pacino
Explain to me what Italian-American culture is. We've been here 100 years. Isn't Italian-American culture American culture? That's because we're so diverse, in terms of intermarriage.
Naomi Klein
We live in this culture of endless extraction and disposal: extraction from the earth, extraction from people's bodies, from communities, as if there's no limit, as if there's no consequence to how we're taking and disposing, and as if it can go on endlessly. We are reaching the breaking point on multiple levels. Communities are breaking, the planet is breaking, people's bodies are breaking. We are taking too much.

Richard Dawkins
God exists, if only in the form of a meme with high survival value, or infective power, in the environment provided by human culture.

Jim Brown
Education, family, character, intelligence, humility, okay? These are the things that make a culture live.

Derrick Jensen
Within this culture wealth is measured by one's ability to consume and destroy.
Kevin Smith
I think the advent of the Internet gave us all a big boost, because by the time the Internet became mainstream and you could get it in your home, a lot of us were used to dealing in fan culture, writing to magazines or anything at the back of comic books.

Naomi Klein
The task is clear: to create a culture of caretaking in which no one and nowhere is thrown away, in which the inherent value of people and all life is foundational.

John Piper
America is the first culture in jeopardy of amusing itself to death.

Alvin Toffler
The Law of Raspberry Jam: the wider any culture is spread, the thinner it gets.

Snoop Dogg
In the black culture, certain kids are given nicknames that they roll with forever; the nicknames outweigh their real names. I'm one of those scenarios.

Jet Li
Hong Kong film audiences are very quiet. It's their culture.

Blake Lively
I take a cooking class everywhere I travel. I find it's the best way to get to know a culture.

Sarah Michelle Gellar
I've always been fascinated by Japanese culture.

David McCullough
If you get down about the state of American culture, just remember there are still more public libraries in this country than there are McDonalds.

Bill O'Reilly
I've been to Africa three times. All right? You can't bring Western reasoning into the culture. The same way you can't bring it into fundamental Islam.
Salma Hayek
I have never denied my background or my culture. I have taught my child to embrace her Mexican heritage, to love my first language, Spanish, to learn about Mexican history, music, folk art, food, and even the Mexican candy I grew up with.

Matt Groening
The best stories in our culture have some sort of subversiveness - Mark Twain, 'Catcher in the Rye.' You provide kids with great stories and teach them how to use the tools to make their own.

Michael Sheen
For me, what makes life enjoyable is having a shared culture and shared references.

Jimmy Page
That's exactly why I came into music in the first place: to be inspired by what I hear to make it something else, to make it my own. That's how culture, creativity, moves, isn't it?
Barbara Ehrenreich
If there is something I am arguing, it is a critique of science. Science has consistently denied the existence of consciousness other than human. Only in the last 20 years do we have acknowledgement of animal feeling or culture or experience.

Marilyn Manson
This is the culture your raising your kids in, don't be suprised when it blows up in your face.