Quotes about Culture

an organization that has properly identified its values and adheres to them will naturally attract the right employees and repel the wrong ones.

You might find contradictory taboos. In one culture it might seem shocking to think x, while in another it was shocking not to. But I think usually the shock is on one side. In one culture x is ok, and in another it's considered shocking. My hypothesis is that the side that's shocked is most likely to be the mistaken one.

Lack of empathy is associated with intelligence, to the point that there is even something of a fashion for it in some places.

If we were talking about Europe in 1000, or most of the third world today, the standard misquotation would be spot on.

When you travel, you experience, in a very practical way, the act of rebirth. You confront completely new situations, the day passes more slowly, and on most journeys you don't even understand the language the people speak.

He who loses the arts loses the culture.

Avant-garde is French for bullshit

In Holland, everyone is an expert in painting and in tulips.

Now art should never try to be popular. The public should try to make itself artistic.

The world does not need more Christian literature. What it needs is more Christians writing good literature.

The arts are not a luxury. They are an integral part of our lives as individuals and as a nation.

I look forward to an America which will not be afraid of grace and beauty...an America which will reward achievement in the arts as we reward achievement in business or statecraft.