Quotes about Culture
I think the health of our civilization, the depth of our awareness about the underpinnings of our culture, and our concern for the future, can all be tested by how well we support our libraries.
— Carl Sagan
I want people to help me reanchor the church to undeniable, mind-boggling, culture-shifting demonstration of compassion and generosity. Because, generosity was the hallmark of the early church.
— Andy Stanley
Haitians do not need development programs imposed on them by expatriates. Instead, they need help in developing as self-assured persons.
— Tony Campolo
The equation of evolution with progress represents our strongest cultural impediment to a proper understanding of this greatest biological revolution in the history of human thought.
— Stephen Jay Gould
I'm interested in the history of ideas and how these ideas take on flesh and influence culture, and the church.
— Kevin Vanhoozer
Historically, I come from Jewish history. I had the classic upbringing in the Yeshiva, learning, learning, and more learning.
— Elie Wiesel
Those comfortably padded lunatic asylums which are known euphemistically as the stately homes of England.
— Virginia Woolf
To all our means of culture is added the powerful incentive to personal ambition, no post of honor is so high but the poorest may hope to reach it.
— James A. Garfield
I hope my books make statements about our general condition.
— William Golding
The arts and humanities teach us who we are and what we can be. They lie at the very core of the culture of which we're a part.
— Ronald Reagan
I'm the type of individual that I enjoy watching any different cultural lives, and I see the common humanity even though the hair textures are different or the skin tones are varied.
— Angela Bassett
Times are bad. Children no longer obey their parents, and everyone is writing a book.
— Cicero