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Most people have a passive relationship with music and clothes, with culture. But music was my first contact with anything creative. Music is it, as far as I'm concerned.

Quotes by Martin Freeman

Now, I know it's a widespread assumption in the West that as countries modernize, they also westernize. This is an illusion. It's an assumption that modernity is a product simply of competition, markets and technology. It is not. It is...

Quotes by Martin Jacques

There are a host of ethnic minorities in China, but they often have a weak sense of identity and are relatively small in total number. History has taught the Han that other groups will and should ultimately be absorbed and...

Quotes by Martin Jacques

The two ethnic groups that remain fundamentally different from the Han Chinese - in terms of history, culture, language, religion and physical appearance - are the Uighurs and Tibetans. In these two groups, the Han Chinese come face to face...

Quotes by Martin Jacques

Racism always exists cheek by jowl with, inside, and alongside culture and class. As a rule, it is inseparable from them. That is why, for example, food, language and names assume such importance in racial prejudice.

Quotes by Martin Jacques

Then there was the whole concept of coal mining, which is a culture unto itself, the most dangerous occupation in the world, and which draws and develops a certain kind of man.

Quotes by Martin Cruz Smith

On the whole, the accommodationist position has been dominant in U.S. law and public culture ─ ever since George Washington wrote a famous letter to the Quakers explaining that he would not require them to serve in the military because...

Quotes by Martha Nussbaum

The U.S. has always understood itself to be united around political principles and not around culture, whereas the nations of Europe have a much more traditional conception of nationhood that is connected to romanticism, which thinks of religion and culture...

Quotes by Martha Nussbaum

Cigarettes are an instant signifier in culture. It punctuates a joke, or puts that extra zing on a punch line. I like them as a prop. I think it can be really useful for character and texture and contrast and...

Quotes by Martha Plimpton

One of our problems is the culture of Brazil which focuses on men's football. Of course we would like to change that. Maybe one day we will have a strong competitive league instead of our women footballers always having to...

Quotes by Marta

At times in my life, I have been utterly lonely. At other times, I've had disgusting infectious diseases. Try admitting these things in our culture.

Quotes by Martha Beck

I can't choose one favorite place because all destinations have something different to offer. My favorite city to explore is Paris; I love the culture of Morocco and the waterfalls in St. Lucia. I just can't choose one. I would...

Quotes by Martha Hunt

The caste system may be more highly developed in countries like India or England, but every tier of society in almost every culture tries to dominate a group it perceives as beneath it.

Quotes by Marlon Brando

Jazz, of course, is our heritage. Jazz is a culture, it's not a fad. It's up to us to see to it that it stays alive.

Quotes by Marla Gibbs

And yet, in a culture like ours, which is given to material comforts, and addicted to forms of entertainment that offer immediate gratification, it is surprising that so much poetry is written.

Quotes by Mark Strand

We're warriors, this culture, and we're very puritanical about sex and very embracing about violence and I don't know why that is.

Quotes by Mark Ruffalo

Having culture means we are the only animal that acquires the rules of its daily living from the accumulated knowledge of our ancestors, rather than from the genes they pass to us.

Quotes by Mark Pagel

Culture has worked by coming to exercise a form of mind control over us. We willingly accept and even embrace this mind control, and probably without even knowing it.

Quotes by Mark Pagel

Nothing in our evolutionary history specifically prepared us to live in large societies. Almost everything about the way culture works does.

Quotes by Mark Pagel

What drives the separation of groups of people into subgroups is the desire to control resources. We begin with a single culture, and over time the number of individuals within that culture expands.

Quotes by Mark Pagel

Frequently Asked Questions

What do these "Culture" quotes cover?
These quotes look at "culture" from several angles — pop culture references like Dan Brown novels, disappointment with celebrity culture, building a shared culture in a classroom or organization, and culture's broader role in shaping identity.
Is there a quote about pop culture?
Yes, one quote mentions not knowing much about "Opus Die except from pop culture, like Dan Brown novels," admitting that wasn't the same as really understanding it. For more on pop-culture-adjacent reflections, see the Cultured quotes page.
Is there a quote about celebrity culture?
Yes — a candid one: "The more celebrities I meet, the more disappointed I get in celebrity culture." For more on this kind of frank observation, see the Cultural Issues quotes page.
Is there a quote connecting classroom and organizational culture?
Yes, one quote describes teachers "trying to build the same culture in the classroom as we're building in the organization," drawing a direct link between classroom culture and organizational culture. For more on how culture varies across settings, see the Cultures quotes page.
Is there a quote defining what culture means?
Yes, one quote offers a broader definition: "The role of culture is that it's the form through which we as a society reflect on who we are, where we've been, where we hope to be." For more on cultural identity and diversity, see the Cultural Diversity quotes page.

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