David Mamet Quotes

The universality of a custom is pledge of its worth.

To me, I learned along the way, you know, culture is behavior. That's all it is; culture is people's behaviors.

We know a culture doesn't just happen; it is the result of what you do every day.

Cultures grow on the vine of tradition.

Culture or civilization, taken in its wide ethnographic sense, is that complex whole which includes knowledge, belief, art, morals, law, custom, and any other capabilities and habits acquired by man as a member of society

Our customs, behaviors, and values are byproducts of our culture.

If someone were to put a proposition before men bidding them choose, after examination, the best customs in the world, each nation would certainly select its own.

The life history of the individual is first and foremost an accommodation to the patterns and standards traditionally handed down in his community.

Everything is arranged so that it be this way, this is what is called culture.

Culture is a way of coping with the world by defining it in detail.

Culture is the air we breathe all around us.

Culture is more important than politics.

Custom is our nature …

There is endless variety in the details of the customs and laws which prevail of the world at large.

Culture is more important than rules and regulations.

Culture is the way for a country to know itself.

Culture is more important than politics and government.

Class doesn't create culture anymore.

It's difficult to identify why two cultures will react differently to the same sport.

We have a unique culture.

Culture has no logic.

There's a cultural difference between India and the rest of the world.

Culture is the tacit agreement to let the means of subsistence disappear behind the purpose of existence.

Culture is the name for what people are interested in, their thoughts, their models, the books they read and the speeches they hear, their table-talk, gossip, controversies, historical sense and scientific training, the values they appreciate, the quality of life they admire. All communities have a culture. It is the climate of their civilization.

Culture is your operating system.