3,162 Quotes About Culture

What is the point of culture? Culture functions ultimately to ensure the preservation and continuity of a people. (...) Culture does not make people. People make culture.

A civilization is a tomb of the old Culture, and womb of the new.

In order to be universal, you have to be rooted in your own culture.

The seed of cultural harmony lies not in the culture you are born in but in the recognition of the sweetness of other cultures.

People talk much today of living their truth, and it occurs to me that Jesus is perhaps the only person who's ever fully done that. As the Word made flesh, he embodied truth in a way none of us ever will. He was literal Truth, living breathing, and walking among us . . . We behold His glory.”― Ruth Buchanan, The Cross in the Culture

You could smash and destroy from unthinkable distances, obliterate planets from beyond their own system and provoke stars into novae from light-years off... and still have no good idea why you were really fighting.

I define myself not by the rules of the society, but by my sensuality.

As a teacher to many teenage boys (and sister to more than one), I can tell you that those without a father have not cornered the market on needing to think before they act. And as the wife of a man who grew up without a father in the home and the daughter of another, I can assure that their mothers worked hard at teaching them how to show deference to their elders.

There is no country without a culture.