Cultural Change Quotes

Company cultures are like country cultures. Never try to change one. Try, instead, to work with what you've got.

Why should the Palatine Boors be suffered to swarm into our Settlements … Why should Pennsylvania, founded by the English, become a colony of Aliens, who will shortly be so numerous as to Germanize us.

The end goal of the feminist revolution must be, unlike that of the first feminist revolution, not just elimination of male privilege, but of the sex distinction itself: genital differences between human beings would no longer matter culturally.

[Turkish women] had lived free of the veil for 5,000 years, and had been covered only in the last 600 years.

The lessons of history would suggest that civilisations move in cycles. You can track that back quite far - the Babylonians, the Sumerians, followed by the Egyptians, the Romans, China. We're obviously in a very upward cycle right now, and hopefully that remains the case. But it may not.

Whatever we once were, we are no longer just a Christian nation; we are also a Jewish nation, a Muslim nation, a Buddhist nation, a Hindu nation, and a nation of nonbelievers.

Cultural change always precedes political change.

Just in the past few years - since I've been making movies, which isn't a very long time - you now have a culture that is fascinated and informed about the box office in a way that sometimes filmmakers weren't even.

It was said that Chile was not ready to vote for a woman, it was traditionally a sexist country. In the end, the reverse happened: the fact of being a woman became a symbol of the process of cultural change the country was undergoing.

Although I don't have anything against people from other countries, the higher the influx into England the more the British identity disappears.

In such diffused changes of culture two factors are necessary: contact and understanding.

Culture is not made up but something that evolves which is human.

In the stable periods of history, meaning was supplied in the context of a coherent community and traditionally prescribed patterns of culture. Today we cannot count on any such inheritance.

There's no single movement out there. It's not like in the '60s, when Revolver came out and that's just it for the next year.

The United States will become a Muslim country, even if it takes 100 years.

Skullcaps, fezes, turbans – it all costs money which goes to foreigners. We will become civilized…We will march forward…Civilization is a fearful fire which consumes those who ignore it.

National cultures and heritages must compete for man's attention with the mind-absorbing advances of universal science.

Cultural relativism has made it so people don't know who they are anymore.

There are neighborhoods in France that are not French… Why would immigrants want to change France is they left their country to live in France? .. You have two kinds of people living in France: The French and the others…. To offer something to the world, France has to remain France.|

Europe is no longer Europe, it is Eurabia, a colony of Islam, where the Islamic invasion does not proceed only in a physical sense, but also in a mental and cultural sense.

We must challenge a culture that is based on too much meanness and not enough meaning.

Art and activism can be symbiotic. They don't have to be, of course; they can also be contradictory.

The '60s may be idealized in the movie from a cultural point of view, but the decade was all about discord and a big generational split that was very painful.

It was necessary to abolish the fez, which sat on the heads of our nation as an emblem of ignorance, negligence, fanaticism, and hatred of progress and civilization …

Cameras began duplicating the world at that moment when the human landscape started to undergo a vertiginous rate of change: while an untold number of forms of biological and social life are being destroyed in a brief span of time, a device is available to record what is disappearing.