Jacques Derrida Quotes

Culture is your operating system.

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.

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

Culture is not a biologically transmitted complex.

A mind cannot be independent of culture.

Culture is more important than politics.

Custom is our nature …

Culture is more important than politics and government.

Cultures grow on the vine of tradition.

Culture is the air we breathe all around us.

Americans are so individualistic, they do not realize their individualism is a communally derived value.

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

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

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

We have a unique culture.

Americans are locked into our traditions.

Culture does not make people. People make culture.

Culture is everything you don't have to do.

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

The universality of a custom is pledge of its worth.

Man is the child of customs, not the child of his ancestors.

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

Custom is our nature. What are our natural principles but principles of custom?