Culture Quotes - Page 22

• The first concern of any dictatorship is, consequently, to subjugate both labor and culture.

  Albert Camus

  Firsts, Dictatorship, Concern

  Albert Camus (2012). “Resistance, Rebellion, and Death: Essays”, p.95, Vintage

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• This is a concept that western culture has forgotten : everything is one! The idea of dichotomy is deeply wrong and nothing is better than a great symbol of China, the Tao, the wheel of yin and yang that represents life. The universe is the harmony of opposites, because there is no water without fire, there is no female with no male, there is no night without day, there is no sun without the moon ... there is no good without evil! This symbol is perfect since the white and black are embracing each other; inside the white there is a black point and inside the black there is a white point.

  Tiziano Terzani

  Moon, Night, Opposites

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• For many of our shareholders, our stock is all they own, and we're acutely aware of that. Our culture [of conservatism] runs pretty deep.

  Charlie Munger

  Running, Conservatism, Shareholders

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• I think the foundation at Berkshire [Buffett's stake in Berkshirewill pass to the Buffett Foundation upon his death] will be a plus because there will be a continuation of the culture. We'd still take in fine businesses run by people who love them.

  Charlie Munger

  Running, Thinking, People

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• I agree with Peter Drucker that the culture and legal systems of the United Statesare especially favorable to shareholder interests, compared to other interests and compared to most other countries. Indeed, there are many other countries where any good going to public shareholders has a very low priority and almost every other constituency stands higher in line.

  Charlie Munger

  Country, Priorities, Legal System

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• The general culture of investment banking has deteriorated over the years. We did a $6 million deal years ago for Diversified Retailing and we were rigorously and intelligently screened. They bankers cared and wanted to protect their clients. The culture now is that anything that can be sold for a profit will be. 'Can you sell it?' is the moral test, and that's not an adequate test.

  Charlie Munger

  Years, Bankers, Banking

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• It's important to celebrate the monogram. It's the DNA of Vuitton. I think - I hope - there is an interest in the philosophy and culture of the Vuitton name. It's quite coherent and intellectual, and the products are great. These are things you will want to pass on - things you treasure.

  Delphine Arnault

  Philosophy, Thinking, Dna

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• Your brand is your culture.

  Tony Hsieh

  Brands

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• In Latino culture, the quinceanera's a big thing - it's when a girl
  becomes a woman. But I think age is just a number - you become a
  woman with the responsibilities you take on and the decisions you
  make. I started realizing that every day is a gift - you have every day to
  be thankful you're alive.

  Emily Rios

  Girl, Responsibility, Thinking

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• Film has become such a central part of our culture now that I think sometimes too great a weight is placed upon it in terms of scrutiny and analysis. There's a lot of rather specious professorial stuff that swirls around films.

  Daniel Day-Lewis

  Thinking, Weight, Stuff

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• Every organization needs to be introspective, transparent, and honest with itself. This only works if everyone is unified on the goals and purposes of the organization and there is trust within the team. High-performing, successful organizations build cultures of introspection and trust and never lose sight of their purpose.

  Colin Powell

  Team, Successful, Sight

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• I'm not really interested in participating in mainstream culture. Participating in the mainstream music business is, to me, like getting involved in a racket. There's no way you can get involved in a racket and not someway be filthied by it.

  Steve Albini

  Mainstream Culture, Way, Racket

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• Now, when you look at somebody, it's not simply, 'Are you like me or unlike me? Has your culture produced great artists? What are your rituals?' It's: 'Is your culture safe or not? Will it produce terrorists?'

  Homi K. Bhabha

  Artist, Looks, Safe

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• The truth of literature and art has always been granted (if it was granted at all) as one of a "higher" order, which should not and indeed did not disturb the order of business. What has changed in the contemporary period is the difference between the two orders and their truths. The absorbent power of society depletes the artistic dimension by assimilating its antagonistic contents. In the realm of culture, the new totalitarianism manifests itself precisely in a harmonizing pluralism, where the most contradictory works and truths peacefully coexist in indifference.

  Herbert Marcuse

  Art, Order, Two

  "One-Dimensional Man" by Herbert Marcuse, (pp. 60-61), 1964.

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• Because I was playing Idi Amin, who dealt with the colonisation issue, I became aware of this internalised conflict of what it means to be torn between cultures, what it means to be taken over by other cultures.

  Forest Whitaker

  Taken, Mean, Other Cultures

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• Teach your children gratefulness. Do all you can to deliver them from our culture's poisonous entitlement mentality.

  Randy Alcorn

  Children, Gratefulness, Entitlement

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• When it comes to continual improvement programs, the biggest mistake is a failure to launch, the biggest hurdle is culture.

  John Novak

  Mistake, Improvement, Program

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• With Lean Six Sigma, the tools are the easy part, changing organizational culture is the hard part.

  John Novak

  Tools, Six, Easy

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• In a culture that relentlessly promotes avarice and excess as the good life, a person happy doing his own work is usually considered an eccentric, if not a subversive.

  Bill Watterson

  Good Life, Excess, Eccentric

  "Some thoughts on the real world by one who glimpsed it and fled". Bill Watterson's commencement speech at the Kenyon College in Gambier, Ohio, www.graduationwisdom.com. May 20, 1990.

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• Negative people often tend to create negative cultures whereas positive corporate cultures are created by positive people.

  Jon Gordon

  People, Negative, Corporate

  Jon Gordon (2015). “The Energy Bus: 10 Rules to Fuel Your Life, Work, and Team with Positive Energy”, p.110, John Wiley & Sons

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• I am convinced that if we lose kids to the culture of drugs and materialism, of violence and war, it's because we don't dare them, not because we don't entertain them. It's because we make the gospel too easy, not because we make it too difficult. Kids want to do something heroic with their lives, which is why they play video games and join the army. But what do they do with a church that teaches them to tiptoe through life so they can arrive safely at death?

  Shane Claiborne

  War, Kids, Army

  Shane Claiborne (2010). “The Irresistible Revolution: Living As an Ordinary Radical”, p.177, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• What would a church look like that created space for quietness, that bucked the celebrity trend and unplugged from noisy media, that actively resisted our consumer culture? What would worship look like if we directed it more toward God than toward our own amusement?

  Philip Yancey

  Media, Space, Church

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• Whoever desires to remain faithful to Jesus must communicate faith as he did, not by compelling assent but by presenting it as a true answer to basic thirst. Rather than looking back nostalgically on a time when Christians wielded more power, I suggest another approach: that we regard ourselves as subversives operating within the broader culture.

  Philip Yancey

  Christian, Jesus, Faithful

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• Our confused society badly needs a community of contrast, a counterculture of ordinary pilgrims who insist living a different way. Unlike popular culture, we will lavish attention on the least "deserving" in direct opposition to our celebrity culture's emphasis on success, wealth, and beauty.

  Philip Yancey

  Confused, Community, Ordinary

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• We live in a culture where the truth claims of Christianity are not only rejected, they are ridiculed.

  R. C. Sproul

  Christianity, Claims, Rejected

  Twitter post from May 4, 2017

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