Culture Quotes
For the Arab, the past does not merely live. The past defines the present.
The overall result was drift punctuated by protest.
In a stress pressure-cooker like America, I believe we will see more and more shooting massacres. Violence is in our cultural DNA.
The starting point to freedom is to begin questioning the cultural narrative you have been sold.
a single generation enamoured of foreign ways is almost enough in history to risk the whole continuity of civilization and learning.
It's because there are too many people who want to stop us having fun. That's the reason.
Academic life is but half life it is a withdrawal from the fight to utter smart things that cost you nothing except the thinking them from a cloister.
The heathen could only be eliminated as a force if their culture was completely erased.
Two objects cannot occupy the same space at the same time. We've never quite made peace with that in the theater---set designer Robin Wagner
Death is universal. The rituals associated with it, however, vary substantially—and are greatly influenced by their religious and cultural context.
All ethics and morals are culturally relative. And Esme's reaction taught me that while cultural relativism is an easy concept to process intellectually, it is not, for many, an easy one to remember.
Nations rise and fall, flourish and decay, by what they believe in and by what their culture stands for.
Man is often the prisoner of the culture he lives in. Question your culture to break the prison doors! Question it so that you can be able to see the incredible stupidities in your culture!
The general air of insecurity and affection made it too easy for him to imagine these once-a-year fabulous creatures as the cubicle dwellers most of them were in everyday life.
We want to make certain that we view culture through the eyes of faith, that we don't view our faith through the eyes of culture.
Pride is instilled. It's what we carry with us every day of our lives.
Do not let your assumptions about a culture block your ability to perceive the individual, or you will fail.
Americans are interesting creatures. They criticize those who speak their language with a slight accent but have no issues with butchering most other languages, my name included.
I am not going to believe in militant nationalism, which cultivates a culture of intolerance, Can't we think of a solution without violence.
May the sunshine ever greet youand sorrows flow away, May the knowledge flow within youand darkness fade away.
It's good netiquette to look for every opportunity to compliment others online. NetworkEtiquette.net
We are all born agnostics. Atheism and theism is sold to us.
Thanks to arranged marriages: There are countless women who have never been their husband's girlfriend.
Building a naval power takes generations, not so much to develop the necessary technology as to pass along the accumulated experience that creates good admirals.
The financial value put on the job of the writer and the misconceptions around that make it extremely difficult to enter the profession.
As it stands there is a very strong argument that as the book trade becomes increasingly corporate it's our literary heritage that is at risk - a vital part of our culture.
I'm proud of the culture I come from - we're a small country and a close-knit community.
It takes a huge amount of culture to normalize "crazy", and of course that's its main focus
It would be easier to get a computer to cry than to get Estonians to share their innermost feelings.
Cultures should not be like water that dissolves them evenly, but like colours that stand out distinctly.
During the first millennium BCE, even the beer-loving Mesopotamians turned their backs on beer, which was dethroned as the most cultured and civilized of drinks, and the age of wine began.
Honor the old but allow for innovation.
They never said “I don’t know.” They said, instead, “I’m not sure, ” which did not give any information but still suggested the possibility of knowledge.
When people lack true culture or are devoid of innovative ideas, they speak about wine, various brands of alcoholic beverages, or the quality of soap.
Where the establishment emphasized humility, prudence, lineage, meritocracy celebrates ambition, achievement, brains&self-betterment
The Swartzentruber Order is the most conservative on the Amish spectrum. Amish people have differences just like any culture.
To most Americans, a dog is a potential mate. To some Chinese, a dog is potential meat.
learn to experience and learn to respect, i love my culture and i respect iti m proud to be Xhosa
by confusing life with play-acting and play-acting with life, one may perhaps construct a tolerable moral world from shattered fragments of the past
Institutions are lengthening shadows of strong individuals.
Christian pop culture can be worthwhile if done well, but bad Christian pop culture isn't redeemed merely by the fact that it's Christian.