3,162 Quotes About Culture
- Author Frederick Smith
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In an environment where there is a shared vision of excellence, where people can be the best they can be on a daily basis, where they know what is expected of them, understand that reward is linked to performance, and believe they can make a difference because they will be heard, they will make a difference. They will go beyond our expectations and great things will happen.
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- Author Peter Høeg
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There is one way to understand another culture. Living it. Move into it, ask to be tolerated as a guest, learn the language. At some point understanding may come. It will always be wordless. The moment you grasp what is foreign, you will lose the urge to explain it. To explain a phenomenon is to distance yourself from it.
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- Author Stephen King
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You can lead a whore to culture, but you can't make her think.
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- Author Mark Fisher
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Deleuze and Guattari describe capitalism as a kind of dark potentiality which haunted all previous social systems. Capital, they argue, is the ‘unnamable Thing’, the abomination, which primitive and feudal societies ‘warded off in advance’. When it actually arrives, capitalism brings with it a massive desacralization of culture. It is a system which is no longer governed by any transcendent Law; on the contrary, it dismantles all such codes, only to re-install them on an ad hoc basis.
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- Author Neil Postman
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The clearest way to see through a culture is to attend to its tools for conversation.
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- Author David Brin
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Cultural contamination that is directed outward is always seen as ‘enlightenment.
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- Author Criss Jami
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Great philosophers become immortal - they make undeniable impacts on culture.
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- Author JEFF BEZOS
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Cultures aren’t so much planned as they evolve from that early set of people.
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- Author Marvin Harris
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Hindus and Westerners alike see in the meat-eating taboos of India a triumph of morals over appetite. This is a dangerous misrepresentation of cultural processes. Hindu vegetarianism was a victory not of spirit over matter but of reproductive over productive forces.
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