Quotes About Culture

The tourist transports his own values and demands to his destinations and implants them like an infectious disease, decimating whatever values existed before.

It amazes me that talking about traditional values is controversial, but it seems to be.

America rests on shared values rather than shared ethnicity.

I was born and raised in the Midwest, where people were taught that decency and integrity and community were all important values. We were democrats with a little 'd.'

Stabilizing the euro is one thing, healing the culture that surrounds it is another. A world in which material values are everything and spiritual values nothing is neither a stable state nor a good society. The time has come for us to recover the Judeo-Christian ethic of human dignity in the image of God.

The stories a society tells about itself are a measure of how it values itself, the ideals of democracy, and its future.

I do believe in my national identity. I'm very proud, of what I come from and where I come from, and there are values up there that I like and that I hold on to: loyalty I suppose, and a sense of humour, and a lack of self pity.

Our aim is that all those who come here to live will participate fully in British society and that British society will be confident enough to allow diversity (as it always has) without losing its central values.

A proud and healthy society does not equivocate when it comes to stating clearly and unequivocally what it expects of its prospective immigrants. It is for immigrants to adapt to the host nation's values and never the other way around.

The Internet is undermining moral values.

Dutch values are based on Christianity, on Judaism, on humanism.

After Big Media, U.S. colleges and universities are the biggest enemies of the values of red-state Americans.

I think some of the best reporters are the ones who can really illustrate the differences between societies, at the same time trying to connect the fact that there are a lot of shared values in addition to those differences.

It has been said that a nation reveals its character by the values it upholds.

But again, we, I think, over the years have set the example for a lot of nations that may not have had the same values, the same type of coming out of the same culture that we as Americans have and enjoy. But we can be an example, a role model for them.

An attack on values is inevitably seen as an act of subversion.

In my book I don't just demonstrate that free enterprise is the most efficient way of organizing an economy - which it is. I also show that it's an expression of American values, and, thus, that a fight for free enterprise is very much a fight for our culture.

There is no conflict between favouring Islamic and traditional values and being more open and international.

The laws that we adopt embody the values and mores of our constituents.

No community values entrepreneurship and small business more than the Hispanic community.

I'm so proud of my Chinese ancestry, but I was born and raised in America, and I really believe in American values, our American system, our freedom, our liberties.

If values matter in an organisation, you have to be prepared to act consistently.

The culture at Valve is pretty much crowdsourced. The handbook is a wiki. One of the first things we say to new hires is, 'You have to change something in the handbook.'

As you study vampire legend throughout history, it goes back to almost every culture. South Africa, Indonesia, crazy places have that legend and that idea of immortality.