Quotes About Cultural

Did you ever notice how some colors are used for people's names but others aren't?

This is the difference between the Spanish advent and the American; that the technical revolution provoked by the first produced the Filipino, while the cultural upheaval provoked by the second merely helped us to become more aware of this Filipinoness.

so julian bond was elected president and rap brown chief justice of the supreme court and nixon sold himself on 42nd street for a package of winstons

The truth is, going against the internal stream of ignorance is way more rebellious than trying to start some sort of cultural revolution.

at every stage of history our concern must be to dismantle those forms of authority and oppression that survive from an era when they might have been justified in terms of the need for security or survival or economic development, but that now contribute to—rather than alleviate—material and cultural deficit.

at every stage of history our concern must be to dismantle those forms of authority and oppression that survive from an era when they might have been justified in terms of the need for security or survival or economic development, but that now contribute to—rather than alleviate—material and cultural deficit. If

You're talking dream date compared to my horror. I started out fine, she's a very nice person, and we're sitting and we're talking in this Ethiopian restaurant she wanted to go to. I was making jokes, like, "Hey, I didn't know they had food in Ethiopia. This'll be a quick meal. I'll order two empty plates and we can leave.

A homeless man once told me that dancing to rap music is the cultural equivalent of masturbating, and I'd sort of fell the same way about playing John Madden Football immediately after filing my income tax: It's fun, but - somehow - vaguely pathetic.

Beginning with Santa Claus as a cognitive exercise, a child is encouraged to share the same idea of reality as his peers. Even if that reality is patently invented and ludicrous, belief is encouraged with gifts that support and promote the common cultural lies. The greatest consensus in modern society is our traffic systems. The way a flood of strangers can interact, sharing a path, almost all of them traveling without incident. It only takes one dissenting driver to create anarchy.

They told me that nothing was a sin, just a poor life choice. Poor impulse control. That nothing is evil. Any concept of right versus wrong, according to them, is merely a cultural construct relative to one specific time and place. They said that if anything should force us to modify our personal behavior it should be our allegiance to a social contract, not some vague, externally imposed threat of flaming punishment.

In my version neither story would get off the ground because all the spouses involved in both stories would honor their partners and remain faithful. Both 'Patient' and "Piano' glorify and romanticize adultery; and that only works in fiction when it's the female who's cuckolding the male. If a story shows a man cheating on his wife… well, that's never a cultural masterpiece, is it?

But I welcome the darkness where the two eyes of that soft panther glow. The darkness is my cultural broth. The enchanted darkness. I go on speaking to you, risking disconnection: I'm subterraneously unattainable because of what I know.

Your full name, Kama Ho'omaluhia i ka La'i, means 'child who brings peace.

The cultural problem was 'the fallacy of insignificance', and it was a philosophical form of this fallacy that had somehow landed existentialism in a cul de sac.

Robbing the Hotel Theresa was like taking a piss on the Statue of Liberty. It was like slipping Jackie Robinson a Mickey the night before the World Series.

The words from across the ocean were beaten out of them over time. For simplicity, to erase their identities, to smother uprisings.

To me the Zionists, who want to go back to the Jewish state of A.D. 70 (destruction of Jerusalem by Titus) are just as offensive as the Nazis. With their nosing after blood, their ancient cultural roots, their partly canting, partly obtuse winding back of the world they are altogether a match for the National Socialists. That is the fantastic thing about the National Socialists, that they simultaneously share in a community of ideas with Soviet Russia and with Zion.

Thank heaven, Sigmund Freud was spared knowing the concentration camps from the inside. His subjects lay on a couch designed in the plush style of Victorian culture, not in the filth of Auschwitz.

to be Irish is to know the world will break your heart before you are thirty.

Vodka was a liquid cultural yardstick, an eighty-proof vehicle of escape from the socialist daily grind.

many forces in the social, cultural, and physical environment conspire against such change (Institute of Medicine, 2000, p. 4). It is therefore essential for a successful prevention initiative to be comprehensive; it must address the environmental as well as individual

Jinnah to Lord Mountabatten in one of his many meetings before partition: "India has never been a true nation. It only looks that way on the map. The cows I want to eat, the Hindus stops me from killing. Every time a Hindu shakes hands with me he has to wash his hands. The only thing the Muslim has in common with Hindu is his slavery to the British.

I believe the primary reason for our long run of spiritual and cultural setbacks is something else. It's sin in the camp.

Je ne souhaite pas, comme certaines ou certains, juger l'Islam à partir de mon occidentalocentrisme, ni énoncer à partir de mes valeurs personnelles des oukases à prétention universelle; devant certains traitements imposés aux femmes du monde arabe, je ne souhait pas hurler avec les loups. Je veux seulement comprendre.