Ruth Porat Quotes

Culture is more important than politics.

Culture is more important than politics and government.

We have a unique culture.

Culture is the air we breathe all around us.

I don't think culture is something you can describe.

Culture is the way for a country to know itself.

Cultural concepts are one of the most fascinating things about historical fiction.

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 the one thing that we cannot deliberately aim at. It is the product of a variety of more or less harmonious activities, each pursued for its own sake.

The universality of a custom is pledge of its worth.

Culture is everything. Culture is the way we dress, the way we carry our heads, the way we walk, the way we tie our ties - it is not only the fact of writing books or building houses.

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.

Culture is about the mindset of people, and we are very happy to have a strong combined mindset of people.

Culture is the arts elevated to a set of beliefs.

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

Culture is simply a shared way of doing something with passion.

Culture is intangible. It's spiritual. You can't buy it.

Culture is important. Wars are fought over culture. It's not just about folks showing up and being hoity-toity. Culture is about definition.

Culture has no logic.

Culture is a part of basic human nature, of deep humanity.

How do cultures differ from one another? Above all, in their customs. Tell me how you dress, how you act, what are your habits, which gods you honor, and I will tell you who you are. Man not only creates culture, he carries it around with him. Man is culture.

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

Culture is coded wisdom

Culture itself is neither education nor law-making: it is an atmosphere and a heritage.

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