Quotes About Culture

You are more likely to find three TVs inside a randomly selected house than you are to find a single book that is or was not read to pass an exam, to please God, or to be a better cook.

Cultures and climates differ all over the world, but people are the same. They'll gather in public if you give them a good place to do it.

Put a good person in a bad system and the bad system wins, no contest.

Keep good company - that is, go to the Louvre.

On the Continent people have good food; in England people have good table manners.

When every benefit received is a right, there is no place for good manners, let alone for gratitude.

Notions of Good and Evil depend entirely on social context. It is not that people are good or bad, they are raised in an aberrant or twisted environment.

The governor of Texas, who, when asked if the Bible should also be taught in Spanish, replied that 'if English was good enough for Jesus, then it's good enough for me.

The kind of people who always go on about whether a thing is in good taste invariably have very bad taste.

Much of the social history of the Western world, over the past three decades, has been a history of replacing what worked with what sounded good.

Bad taste is real taste, of course, and good taste is the residue of someone else's privilege.

Only one thing is certian about coffee.... Wherever it is grown, sold, brewed, and consumed, there will be lively controversy, strong opinions, and good conversation.

I'm from Oklahoma. I mean, you can't have good hair in Oklahoma. That's why everyone wears hats. The wind just messes it up.

The sign of a person who has had an education is good manners.

Style is having the courage of one's choices and the courage to say no. It's good taste and culture.

This sign I give you: every people speaks its tongue of good and evil, which the neighbor does not understand. It has invented its own language of customs and rights.

We don't have a lot of Sikhs in France. We've got some. But we don't really hear much from them or about them. Which is good news.

If you put good people in bad systems you get bad results. You have to water the flowers you want to grow.

Strategically, a major function of the CEO is to look for bad news and encourage the organization to respond to it. Employees must be encouraged to share bad news as much as good news.

Good-breeding is the art of showing men, by external signs, the internal regard we have for them. It arises from good sense, improved by conversing with good company.

Ethnic stereotypes are boring and stressful and sometimes criminal. It's just not a good way to think. It's non-thinking. It's stupid and destructive.

Voodoo is a very interesting religion for the whole family, even those members of it who are dead.

There's not a lot of good movies being made.

I wanted to go to Portland because it's a really good book town.