Quotes About Culture

The essential dilemma of my life is between my deep desire to belong and my suspicion of belonging.

British culture is very cynical sometimes of overt displays of sentimentality, and I think that becomes almost a suspicion of emotion, or a suspicion of someone making a grand statement. It is always easier to be ironic, or 'meta', or coolly postmodern. But I think there is such a thing as authentic sentimentality.

Italians tend to be less rigidly moral and law-abiding than do Anglo-Saxons. They also have a profound suspicion of the state and most of its agencies.

I don't want to name names, but the least I can say about rock and roll is that I'm suspicious.

Tribalism reflects strong ethnic or cultural identities that separate members of one group from another, making them loyal to people like them and suspicious of outsiders, which undermines efforts to forge common cause across groups.

Hungary does not need a single migrant for the economy to work or the population to sustain itself or for the country to have a future.

One thing we didn't know in 1996 is that it's very, very difficult, if not impossible, to sustain a culture with online advertising.

One of the challenges Christians confront is how the politics we helped create has made it difficult to sustain the material practices constitutive of an ecclesial culture to produce Christians.

I'm raising kids, and so much of American culture sustains me and gives me things to think about and work on.

We live in a society that, for the most part, is morally and spiritually bankrupt. Our culture is a culture of consumerism. How sustainable is that?

Our job in gospel is not going away. It's a sustainable genre. It sells - without question.

Engaging in social business is beneficial to a company because it leverages on business competencies to address social issues, involves one-time investment with sustainable results, and produces other positive effects such as employee motivation and improved organizational culture.

I've learned from my French husband and the way they eat, it's all about moderation. And that's really sustainable.

Civilization can never be sustainable.

To force a culture creates something that is inherently not sustainable. It does not evolve forward.

If you want to build a sustainable culture, you have to have a strong philosophy and then let people do with it what they will and be OK with that.

I want to build a sustainable winning culture, in every facet.

People used to expect literary novels to deepen the experience of living; now they are happy with any sustained display of writerly cleverness.

The level of discourse in this country is falling to a depth that cannot be sustained.

Today we read books 'extensively,' often without sustained focus, and with rare exceptions we read each book only once. We value quantity of reading over quality of reading. We have no choice, if we want to keep up with the broader culture.

Content that's generated out of America, whether it be film or music, has, in my opinion, much greater impact in sustaining our credibility and our place as a cultural capital. This is our great export.

Basketball has a culture to it, it has a swagger to it.

I've got that European swagger.

I am tolerably ignorant about Judaism, and much of what I do know about it seems hard to swallow, because it is so grounded in legalism, and adherence to rituals.