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Quotes About Culture

It is impossible for a person to earn separate dignity while his own race is uncivilized.
~ Khem Veasna
The truest test of civilization, culture and dignity is character and not clothing.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
There is a certain dignity to being French.
~ Brigitte Bardot
Well, on the one hand the Turks have the legitimate need to defend their national dignity - and this includes being recognized as a part of the west and Europe.
~ Orhan Pamuk
Oxford lends sweetness to labour and dignity to leisure.
~ Henry James
There's nothing that can match Broadway for stature and dignity.
~ Sammy Davis, Jr.
I'm a black American, I am proud of my race. I am proud of who I am. I have a lot of pride and dignity.
~ Michael Jackson
There is no dignity in television.
~ Adam Savage
A people must have dignity and identity.
~ Andrew Goodman
California, the department store state.
~ Raymond Chandler
Islam does give human dignity, certainly. The point I wanted to make is that it is great foolishness to try to impose our notions of democracy. They have their own traditions.
~ Bernard Lewis
The disintegration of the culture starts with the artist. Im on a crusade to turn the tide in the arts, to restore dignity to the arts and, by extension, to the culture.
~ Thomas Kinkade
One of the major contributions of the Protestant faith to the world is the culture of dignity of labour.
~ Sunday Adelaja
I took a Russian class at Notre Dame. Never in my wildest dreams did I think I would fly someday in a Russian spacecraft with two cosmonauts, speaking only Russian.
~ Kevin A. Ford
The images we see, as a culture, help define and expand our dreams, our perceptions of what is possible. Pictures of who we are help us visualize who we can be.
~ Tee Corinne
When violence becomes imbedded in a region, then this affects everything. It affects your dreams, your fantasies and relationships, and your religion becomes violent, too.
~ Karen Armstrong
By education I am an Englishman, by views an internationalist, by culture a Muslim and a Hindu only by accident of birth.
~ Jawaharlal Nehru
To destroy a people, you must first sever their roots.
~ Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
My grammar be's ebonics, gin tonics, and chronic.
~ Nelly
There is no depth to education without art.
~ Amiri Baraka
Having an education is one thing, being educated is another.
~ Lee Kuan Yew
We have ignored cultural literacy in thinking about education We ignore the air we breathe until it is thin or foul. Cultural literacy is the oxygen of social intercourse.
~ E. D. Hirsch, Jr.
The true aim of female education should be, not a development of one or two, but all the faculties of the human soul, because no perfect womanhood is developed by imperfect culture.
~ Frances Harper
From education by the Church to education by Germanic value is a step of several generations.
~ Alfred Rosenberg