Culture Quotes

A translator must, of course, be an interpreter of cultures.

Lewis is like a gateway, making the riches of Deep Church more accessible.

The human impulse behind the isolation of class is as basic as impulses get: People like to be around other people who understand them and to whom they can talk.

To knock today's prestige dialects off their pedestals, it helps to realize that they are really foul perversions of yesterday's prestige dialects.

When a language dies, a possible world dies with it.

Arguments about language are usually arguments about politics, disguised and channeled through one of our most distinctive markers of identity.

Yesterday's abomination is today's rule.

Because different cultures see a particular animal as representing a certain human virtue or vice, the use of animal imagery also allows for more colorful commentary on the human condition.

Packed up the Dylan and the Man Ray and the JoyceI left a note that said well I guess I got no choiceScuse me girl while I'm kicking it to the curbLeaving with all I need but less than I deserve

They speak very well of you".- "They speak very well of everybody."- "That so bad?"- "Yes. It means you can´t trust them.

Perfect sanity is a myth propagated by straitjacket salesmen.

no human culture is inaccessible to someone who makes the effort to understand, to learn, to inhabit another world.

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We don’t live in a world that suffers from doubt, but one that suffers from certainty, false certainties that compensate for the well of worldly anxieties and worries.

One of the most effective ways of changing the way people think is to change the way they worship.

When the waterholes were dry, people sought to drink at the mirage.

Someone has said that culture is what remains with you after you have forgotten all you have read, and I believe there is much truth in that.

Indigenous foods die when no one learns to cook them.

The world in which you were born is just one model of reality. Other cultures are not failed attempts at being YOU: they are unique manifestations of the human spirit.

The person who can learn by observation can create his own culture.

Death is inevitable. But the meaning people attach to death, its causes and aftermath, is culturally given. Without meaning, without culture making sense of things, life would be impossible.

[T]here are in fact no masses, but only ways of seeing people as masses.

In America religion is the road to knowledge, and the observance of the divine laws leads man to civil freedom.

Culture was actually humanity’s attempt to extend the womb.

No gaming outside of the venue without a sanctioned game master.

No single characteristic ever overtakes an entire society.

Prison does not silence ideas whose time has come.

Tradition is a fragile thing in a culture built entirely on the memories of the elders.

Why does it seem easier for us to accept reality when it is within the confinement of the animal kingdom yet so hard for us to face it in our?

At the dealership, I pulled out the sieve and toyed with it threateningly. When the salesman was ready for me, I held it up, told him I was not a tourist and demanded a large discount.

Whoever wants to know the heart and mind of America had better learn baseball, the rules and realities of the game and do it by watching first some high-school or small-town teams

When we say that the West has brought us nothing but evil, do we mean that beef is evil, that cabbages are evil that the guisado is evil?

Being postmodern, however, is about being complicit rather than virtuous, it is about approaching categories like Good and Evil with a certain ironic skepticism.

Enron would keep its unearned windfall, generated solely because David Duncan didn't know what he was doing.

...Fastow had found someone trusting and pliable.Fastow wanted a pupet, Bowen concluded, and he already controlled Ben Glisan's strings.p.338

In a market, preceptions could be as important as reality.p.403

Literature, art, science, and religion degenerate when polemical struggle supplants the independent creation of ideas.

I come from a culture of handwringers, vengeance seekers, people who name children after ancestors by rote -- first child, paternal grandfather, second child, maternal, and on and on and on.

Culture primarily witnesses the absence of meaning, not it's presence.

The fastest way to destroy a culture is to make it multicultural.

Celebrating Culture is celebrating existence.

The more I learn the more I want to know

The essence of a culture of honor is that it does not sanction predatory or instrumental violence, but only retaliation after an insult or other mistreatment.

Religion, culture, education are all things that sound wonderful in theory. In practice, however, they are not so wonderful.

Where is the culture of cleanliness?

The culture the leader creates impacts the feedback a leader receives.

An encounter with other cultures can lead to openness only if you can suspend the assumption of superiority, not seeing new worlds to conquer, but new worlds to respect.

As you get the rhythm you discern how to win.

ideas generate action when they are believed regardless of whether they are true or not in our opinion

That people you don’t know are worth knowing, that they have something to teach you. That learning about them – that encountering new ideas – doesn’t threaten you, it enriches you. (Celeste Ng)