Culture Quotes

"When a man is penalized for honesty he learns to lie."

Criss Jami

"Culture does not make people. People make culture."

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

"Science and technology revolutionize our lives, but memory, tradition and myth frame our response."

Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.

"Our technology forces us to live mythically."

Marshall McLuhan

"Wherever smart people work, doors are unlocked."

Steve Wozniak

"Books are the means by which we build bridges between cultures."

Dr. Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan

"You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them."

Ray Bradbury

"Culture is the arts elevated to a set of beliefs."

Thomas Wolfe

"Without culture, and the relative freedom it implies, society, even when perfect, is but a jungle."

"Man is a child of his customs, not the child of his nature."

Ibn Khaldun

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

Marcus Garvey

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

César Chávez

"Culture is the widening of the mind and of the spirit."

Jawaharlal Nehru

"A nation's culture resides in the hearts and in the soul of its people."

"Every man has two countries – his own and France."

Henri de Bornier

“So many people are following fashion now. It's become fashion-tainment.”

“Listen, I'm not a rich kid. I'm a cultured kid; I'm very rich in culture.”

“I have to eat with my hands. In Uganda we even eat salad with our hands.”

“I will continue to drink Adeni chai.”

“The education I received was a British education, in which British ideas, British culture, British institutions, were automatically assumed to be superior. There was no such thing as African culture.”

“A nation's culture resides in the hearts and in the soul of its people.”

“I want the cultures of all lands to be blown about my house as freely as possible. But I refuse to be blown off my feet by any.”

“Culture is a reflection of our moment in our time. And present culture is the way we express how we're feeling about the moment.”