Welcome to the world of Culture Quotes, where the profound wisdom and insights of great thinkers, philosophers, and cultural icons are distilled into memorable words that resonate with the essence of human civilization. Culture is the heartbeat of society, and through the ages, individuals from various walks of life have left behind a treasure trove of quotes that encapsulate the richness of our shared human experience. Whether you seek inspiration, introspection, or simply a touch of elegance for your creative endeavors, this collection of culture quotes is here to ignite your imagination and elevate your thoughts.
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When one lives in a society where people can no longer rely on the institutions to tell them the truth, the truth must come from culture and art. John Trudell
Culture is the widening of the mind and of the spirit. Jawaharlal Nehru
Rastafari not a culture, it’s a reality. Bob Marley
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. Michelle Obama
Pop culture is a reflection of social change, not a cause of social change. John Podhoretz
An army without culture is a dull-witted army, and a dull-witted army cannot defeat the enemy. Mao Zedong
I ascribe a basic importance to the phenomenon of language. To speak means to be in a position to use a certain syntax, to grasp the morphology of this or that language, but it means above all to assume a culture, to support the weight of a civilization. Frantz Fanon
Without culture, and the relative freedom it implies, society, even when perfect, is but a jungle. This is why any authentic creation is a gift to the future. Albert Camus
I’ve studied my culture deeply and I’m very aware of my tradition. Fela Kuti
You always want what you can’t have, and that all-American thing, from the day I was born, I could never enter that dream. That all-American white culture is something that is inherited instead of attained. Mitski
Food for us comes from our relatives, whether they have wings or fins or roots. That is how we consider food. Food has a culture. It has a history. It has a story. It has relationships. Winona LaDuke
In spite of our agonizing history, Native American people find much to celebrate. The songs, the dances, the culture and traditions surrounding planting and harvests, the prayers that are sent upward for healing and peace, and the welcoming of children into our families, are all reasons for us to keep moving forward with optimism. Deb Haaland
What I enjoy the most about being Filipino is our culture. Jo Koy
Music is critical in our lives and culture. It’s the inspiration that drives us. It’s also the window to our souls. It’s a reflection as to who we are, what we stand for and where we’re going. Bill Walton
The Chinese culture belongs not only to the Chinese but also to the whole world. Hu Jintao
If you are building a culture where honest expectations are communicated and peer accountability is the norm, then the group will address poor performance and attitudes. Henry Cloud
Pop culture shapes our ideas of what is normal and what our dreams can be and what our roles are. Politics, of course, decides how the power and the money in the country is distributed. Both are equally important, and each affects the other. Gloria Steinem
Popular culture is one of the sites where this struggle for and against a culture of the powerful is engaged: it is also the stake to be won or lost in that struggle. It is the arena of consent and resistance. Stuart Hall
Culture makes all men gentle. Menander
Fashion is part of our culture, and it’s about more than just a pretty dress. Joan Smalls
No occupation is so delightful to me as the culture of the earth, and no culture comparable to that of the garden. Thomas Jefferson
We are at the precipice of great transformation within our culture and government. Zachary Quinto
What colonialism does is cause an identity crisis about one’s own culture. Lupita Nyong’o
Whoever controls the media, the images, controls the culture. Allen Ginsberg
If we are to preserve culture we must continue to create it. Johan Huizinga
I just like to have words that describe things correctly. Now to me, ‘black feminist’ does not do that. I need a word that is organic, that really comes out of the culture, that really expresses the spirit that we see in black women. And it’s just… womanish. Alice Walker
If we are to achieve a richer culture, rich in contrasting values, we must recognize the whole gamut of human potentialities, and so weave a less arbitrary social fabric, one in which each diverse human gift will find a fitting place. Margaret Mead
Hatred is something peculiar. You will always find it strongest and most violent where there is the lowest degree of culture. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Mythology is a subjective truth. Every culture imagines life a certain way. Devdutt Pattanaik
Culture hides much more than it reveals, and strangely enough, what it hides, it hides most effectively from its own participants. Edward T. Hall
I am an American, steeped in American values. But I know on an emotional level what it means to be of the Chinese culture. Amy Tan
Education must, be not only a transmission of culture but also a provider of alternative views of the world and a strengthener of the will to explore them. Jerome Bruner
France, and the whole of Europe have a great culture and an amazing history. Most important thing though is that people there know how to live! In America they’ve forgotten all about it. I’m afraid that the American culture is a disaster. Johnny Depp
Food is a lens for culture. Dana Goodyear
I had to confront my fears and master my every demonic thought about inferiority, insecurity, or the fear of being black, young, and gifted in this Western culture. Lauryn Hill
The point of my work is to show that culture and education aren’t simply hobbies or minor influences. They are hugely important in the affirmation of differences between groups and social classes and in the reproduction of those differences. Pierre Bourdieu
Every age has its storytelling form, and video gaming is a huge part of our culture. You can ignore or embrace video games and imbue them with the best artistic quality. People are enthralled with video games in the same way as other people love the cinema or theatre. Andy Serkis
I think there ought to be some serious discussion by smart people, really smart people, about whether or not proliferation of things like The Smoking Gun and TMZ and YouTube and the whole celebrity culture is healthy. Stephen King
Culture is to know the best that has been said and thought in the world. Matthew Arnold
I think if education was celebrated in pop culture, we’d live in a better place. Cote de Pablo
Culture makes people understand each other better. And if they understand each other better in their soul, it is easier to overcome the economic and political barriers. But first they have to understand that their neighbour is, in the end, just like them, with the same problems, the same questions. Paulo Coelho
Giving and receiving kindness are easy ways to feel good and to help others feel good too. People, organizations, and societies thrive when they are grounded in a culture of kindness. Vivek Murthy
Though music transcends language, culture and time, and though notes are the same, Indian music is unique because it is evolved, sophisticated and melodies are defined. Dayananda Saraswati
There is no equality between our culture and the retarded Islamic culture. Look at their views on homosexuality or women. Geert Wilders
Cinema is an art form that is designed to go across borders. And as a filmmaker, the only way I can direct a movie is when I feel close to my culture. Denis Villeneuve
Culture drives great results. Jack Welch
Nature doesn’t need people – people need nature; nature would survive the extinction of the human being and go on just fine, but human culture, human beings, cannot survive without nature. Harrison Ford
You don’t have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them. Ray Bradbury
Music and art and culture is escapism, and escapism sometimes is healthy for people to get away from reality. The problem is when they stay there. Chuck D
With the right people, culture, and values, you can accomplish great things. Tricia Griffith
I come from a rare place. It’s a different culture, different atmosphere, police crooked. Different emojis, and when I say emojis, I mean personalities. YoungBoy Never Broke Again
We have forgotten that we have not come to an empty land to inherit it, but we have come to conquer a country from people inhabiting it, that governs it by the virtue of its language and savage culture. Moshe Sharett
Every aspect of Western culture needs a new code of ethics – a rational ethics – as a precondition of rebirth. Ayn Rand
People pull from drag culture because drag artists are – it’s the ultimate art form and it’s the last underdog art form. I mean, even clowns have college, you know what I mean? Drag queens, you have to learn drag from another drag queen. Bob the Drag Queen
Grunge was, to me, the last big movement. It had such an impact on pop culture. We haven’t really seen anything like that since, and we may never again. Things have changed; the digital age has changed things. Myles Kennedy
What gets in our way is history and culture and religion and economic conditions. It is part of the hypnosis of our social conditioning. Deepak Chopra
The future of architecture is culture. Philip Johnson
We have to bring children into a new relationship to food that connects them to culture and agriculture. Alice Waters
The lowest form of popular culture – lack of information, misinformation, disinformation, and a contempt for the truth or the reality of most people’s lives – has overrun real journalism. Today, ordinary Americans are being stuffed with garbage. Carl Bernstein
A test of a people is how it behaves toward the old. It is easy to love children. Even tyrants and dictators make a point of being fond of children. But the affection and care for the old, the incurable, the helpless are the true gold mines of a culture. Abraham Joshua Heschel
In Japanese culture, there is a belief that God is everywhere – in mountains, trees, rocks, even in our sympathy for robots or Hello Kitty toys. Ryuichi Sakamoto
The equal right of all citizens to health, education, work, food, security, culture, science, and wellbeing – that is, the same rights we proclaimed when we began our struggle, in addition to those which emerge from our dreams of justice and equality for all inhabitants of our world – is what I wish for all. Fidel Castro
I think music in itself is healing. It’s an explosive expression of humanity. It’s something we are all touched by. No matter what culture we’re from, everyone loves music. Billy Joel
Cooking is all about people. Food is maybe the only universal thing that really has the power to bring everyone together. No matter what culture, everywhere around the world, people get together to eat. Guy Fieri
Corporate culture matters. How management chooses to treat its people impacts everything – for better or for worse. Simon Sinek
A nation’s culture resides in the hearts and in the soul of its people. Mahatma Gandhi
Cancel culture has always been an issue. I mean, if you look at the Book of Genesis, Cain canceled Abel. This has always been an issue, the ‘I don’t like you, I don’t like what you’re doing, I don’t like the attention that you’re getting, so you shouldn’t be here. You shouldn’t have a voice. You shouldn’t have a movement.’ Lauren Boebert
Technology is causing a set of seemingly disconnected things – shortening of attention spans, polarization, outrage-ification of culture, mass narcissism, election engineering, addiction to technology. Tristan Harris
The culture of a workplace – an organization’s values, norms and practices – has a huge impact on our happiness and success. Adam Grant
Moral values, and a culture and a religion, maintaining these values are far better than laws and regulations. Swami Sivananda
Fashion and music are two great artistic forms that can be molded by the youth culture – our taste and our passion for evolving things in our limited time on earth allows us to look at things with fresh eyes. Virgil Abloh
Culture is a way of coping with the world by defining it in detail. Malcolm Bradbury
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. Pope Francis
Culture is the arts elevated to a set of beliefs. Thomas Wolfe
An institution of higher education is a partnership among students and alumni, faculty and administrators, donors and trustees, neighborhoods and more, to build a community – and a culture. Ben Sasse
The role of a creative leader is not to have all the ideas; it’s to create a culture where everyone can have ideas and feel that they’re valued. Ken Robinson
Without memory, there is no culture. Without memory, there would be no civilization, no society, no future. Elie Wiesel
We need to change the culture of this topic and make it OK to speak about mental health and suicide. Luke Richardson
I do speak Mandarin, and I also relate to the hunger that China has for culture and architecture and style. Vera Wang
Vision without power does bring moral elevation but cannot give a lasting culture. Muhammad Iqbal
If your culture doesn’t like geeks, you are in real trouble. Bill Gates
In Buddhist culture, offering food to the monk symbolizes the action of goodness, and if you have no opportunity to support the practice of spirituality, then you are somehow left in the realm of darkness. Thich Nhat Hanh
A people without the knowledge of their past history, origin and culture is like a tree without roots. Marcus Garvey
Food is not rational. Food is culture, habit, craving and identity. Jonathan Safran Foer
Architecture belongs to culture, not to civilization. Alvar Aalto
Positive culture comes from being mindful, and respecting your coworkers, and being empathetic. Biz Stone
The negative side to globalization is that it wipes out entire economic systems and in doing so wipes out the accompanying culture. Peter L. Berger
I suppose for me as an artist it wasn’t always just about expressing my work; I really wanted, more than anything else, to contribute in some way to the culture that I was living in. It just seemed like a challenge to move it a little bit towards the way I thought it might be interesting to go. David Bowie
Food is culture. Food is an identity, a footprint of who you are. Lidia Bastianich
The myths underlying our culture and underlying our common sense have not taught us to feel identical with the universe, but only parts of it, only in it, only confronting it – aliens. Alan Watts
If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to follow his vision wherever it takes him. John F. Kennedy
Culture is a thousand things, a thousand times. It’s living the core values when you hire; when you write an email; when you are working on a project; when you are walking in the hall. Brian Chesky
A mind cannot be independent of culture. Lev Vygotsky
The role of culture is that it’s the form through which we as a society reflect on who we are, where we’ve been, where we hope to be. Wendell Pierce
When you learn something from people, or from a culture, you accept it as a gift, and it is your lifelong commitment to preserve it and build on it. Yo-Yo Ma
When you look at Japanese traditional architecture, you have to look at Japanese culture and its relationship with nature. You can actually live in a harmonious, close contact with nature – this very unique to Japan. Tadao Ando
Debate and divergence of views can only enrich our history and culture. Ibrahim Babangida
Wherever I go, I bring the culture with me, so that they can understand that it’s attainable. I didn’t do it any other way than through hip-hop. Jay-Z
In our Western culture, although death has come out of the closet, it is still not openly experienced or discussed. Allowing dying to be so intensely present enriches both the preciousness of each moment and our detachment from it. Ram Dass
The objective I propose is quite simple to state: to foster the infrastructure of democracy – the system of a free press, unions, political parties, universities – which allows a people to choose their own way to develop their own culture, to reconcile their own differences through peaceful means. Ronald Reagan
