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It is not part of a true culture to tame tigers, any more than it is to make sheep ferocious. -- Henry David Thoreau
Every man who has shown the world the way to beauty, to true culture, has been a rebel, a 'universal' without patriotism, without home, who has found his people everywhere. -- Chaim Potok
The test of our social commitment and humanity is how we treat the most powerless of our fellow citizens, the respect we accord to our fellow human beings. That is what reveals our true culture. -- Azim Premji
That is true culture which helps us to work for the social betterment of all. -- Henry Ward Beecher
The floods of nonsense printed in the form of critical opinions seem to me a chief curse of the times, a chief obstacle to true culture. -- George Eliot
Ethiopians, that is, Negroes, gave the world the first idea of right and wrong and thus laid the basis of religion and all true culture and civilization. -- Joel Augustus Rogers
Every man who has shown the world the way to beauty, to true culture, has been a rebel, a 'universal' without patriotism, without home who has found his people everywhere. -- Chaim Potok
As soon as you start asking what education is for, what the use of it is, you're abandoning the basic assumption of any true culture, that education is worth while for its own sake. -- Ann Bridge
Family dynamics are true over time, across generations and different cultures. -- Alice McDermott
I think dance in any culture, in any form, is a true leveler. -- Baz Luhrmann
You have to maintain a culture of transformation and stay true to your values. -- Jeff Weiner
Religion and culture are two important ways in which we as humans find our identity. That's certainly true for me. -- Gene Luen Yang
What is true is that if we do not change the culture of Washington, D.C., the United States of America will cease. -- Steve Southerland
Good leaders need to be able to connect to all of those around them. This is especially true at Whole Foods, where we have a very team-oriented culture. -- John Mackey
People of color grow up steeped in 'white' culture. The reverse is not true. And, no, listening to hip-hop on the way to work does not count as immersion. -- John Ridley
We've heard that the hookup culture is destroying us. We've heard that it's saving us. We've heard that it's racist. We've agonized over which one of these is true. -- Hanna Rosin
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The system of domination is founded on depriving nations of their true identity. It seeks to deprive nations of their culture, identity, self-confidence and in this way dominate them. -- Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
My father loved biographies. He loved the true tales of interesting people that were shaping our culture. I get why he dug 'Vanity Fair.' You feel smarter, somehow, for reading it. -- Abigail Spencer
Santa is our culture's only mythic figure truly believed in by a large percentage of the population. It's a fact that most of the true believers are under eight years old, and that's a pity. -- Chris Van Allsburg
I'm always uneasy with messages. I think if there is a message, it's about taking control of your life. Not becoming a victim. Be true to yourself. In essence it's about love in the drug culture. -- Neil Tennant
It is true that Christianity is not bound up with any particular race or culture. It is neither of the East or of the West, but has a universal mission to the human race as a whole. -- Christopher Dawson
France can never accept that it is no longer a dominating power in the world of culture. This is true both of the French right and the French left. They keep thinking that Americans are primitive cowboys or farmers who do not understand anything. -- Adam Michnik
When I grew up in the '60s, we were actually dominated by this, you know, sort of conforming '50s culture, even though we were like trying to express our own culture, like, the dominant culture was the thing that was forming us. And I think that that's true today. -- Gus Van Sant
I wanted to tell a dream-come-true story about going from a closeted gay kid who loved pop culture to an out adult man making pop culture. I went from being told when I was 21 that I should never go on TV because of my crossed eyes to winding up being a 'Housewives' whisperer and talk-show host. -- Andy Cohen
Men of culture are the true apostles of equality -- Matthew Arnold
True advocacy is born from culture, not technology or marketing. -- Jay Baer
It's true that PC culture has created very little honest dialogue. -- Sho Baraka
The true foundation of all culture is the knowledge and understanding of water. -- Viktor Schauberger
In a culture where profit has become the true God, self-sacrifice can seem incomprehensible rather than noble. -- Starhawk
Part of Christian belief is to find out what's true about Jesus and let that challenge our culture. -- N. T. Wright
I think that cultural influence is very deep, it is not on the surface and this is true in every culture. -- Michael Craig-Martin
True wisdom is free of the dramas of culture or religion and should bring us only a sense of peace and happiness. -- Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche
Only a true faith that applies God's Word to everything-incl uding economics-will lead to the revival and reformation our culture needs so badly. -- R. C. Sproul
Life is a constant back-and-forth. We take a breath in and then we breathe out. The same is true for the culture as a whole. -- Marianne Williamson
...quality of life lies in knowledge, in culture. Values are what constitute true quality of life, the supreme quality of life, even above food, shelter and clothing. -- Fidel Castro
Culture is only true when implicitly critical, and the mind which forgets this revenges itself in the critics it breeds. Criticism is an indispensable element of culture. -- Theodor Adorno
To recognize that some of the things our culture believes are not true imposes on us the duty of finding out which are true and which are not. -- Allan Bloom
What's true for us as individual humans is true for the civilization we create: a sprint culture, seeking ever greater speed and power in all things cannot endure. -- Ed Ayres
I think that any story that intends on being culturally authentic and true to life experiences will be a great story. Even if that culture isn't a hip-hop-centric one. -- Ali Shaheed Muhammad
Images have become our true sex objects. It is this promiscuity and the ubiquity of images, this viral contamination of images which are the fatal characteristics of our culture. -- Jean Baudrillard
England produces under favorable conditions of ease and culture the finest women in the world. And, as the men are affectionate and true-hearted, the women inspire and refine them. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Unless we regain the art of silence and insight, the ability for nonactivity, unless we substitute true leisure for our hectic amusements, we will destroy our culture and ourselves. -- Josef Pieper

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