Richard Leakey Quotes

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.

We need to define what culture is. Every human being lives within a culture, and culture means "To grow in." It means to literally fall, and this is exactly what I believe is happening all around us right now.

We do not birth our children into the world of nature. We birth our children into the world of culture.

Social Science … led us to the fallacy that, since all men have their being in culture and as a result of culture, they owe a debt to that culture which even a lifetime of altruism could not repay.

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.

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

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

Custom is our nature …

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

There are a lot of things that people learn and live through culture first, and politics comes afterward.

We have a unique culture.

There is nothing wrong in performing rituals according to one's beliefs and culture.

Every country has its own culture and sensitivities.

Culture is not a matter of a change of climate.

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.

I don't personally feel any association with a kind of culture related to state, or culture related to power, which I think is always disgusting.

Culture is coded wisdom

Culture is the study of perfection, and the constant effort to achieve it.

I understand culture. I am the nucleus.

The universality of a custom is pledge of its worth.

A culture is the sum of all the things about which humanity can choose to differ.

Civilization is a network and a maze of precedences and custom.

I was taught in my Introduction to Anthropology [course in college], it is not just the great works of [hu]mankind that make a culture. It is the daily things, like what people eat and how they serve it.