Quotes About Cultural

Na literatura da Antiguidade, a autoridade da profunda voz masculina, por contraste com a feminina, é constantemente realçada. Tal como um tratado científico da Antiguidade afirma de modo explícito, uma voz grave indica coragem viril, uma voz aguda e feminina, cobardia.

a white person who wants to know about our religion but won't listen. There

Raymond Yellow Thunder, a gentle, sober Pine Ridge elder; he was attacked by some white racists who stripped him naked from the waist down, forced him to dance at gunpoint, and then beat him to death—just for the fun of it.

After twelve years of therapy my psychiatrist said something that brought tears to my eyes. He said, No hablo ingles.

Thus it happened that the great-grandsons of Yellow Hair, Custer, were counting coup on the Blue Coats of 1973. For

In the old days a man made a name for himself by being generous and wise, but now he has nothing to be generous with, no jobs, no money; and as far as our traditional wisdom is concerned, our men are being told by the white missionaries, teachers, and employers that it is merely savage superstition.

Games are legitimate forms of media, human expression, and cultural importance

Critical play is characterized by a careful examination of social, cultural, political, or even personal themes that function as alternates to popular play spaces.

Le Chat Noir's clientele were looking for good times, to be sure, but their idea of a good time was a convivial (and well-lubricated) evening based on shared intellectual and cultural interests.

she had the educated instincts of a European, not an Asiatic,

What is honour? In Athens it is one thing, in Sparta another; and among the Medes it is something else again. But go where you will, there is no land where the dead return across the river.

A participant from Zambia, who had listened intently throughout the conference, finally raised her hand at a senior level roundtable. "I have been hearing this expression—'we need to think outside the box'—for the past 3 days," she said, reiterating the cliche. "It seems a little strange to me," the woman continued with bemusement. "In my community we don't thinking boxes.

It is a visual temper tantrum. You are making an ineffective statement about this and that, a grotesque, self-defeating mockery of cultural standards of beauty, societal misogyny. It is a blow to your parents, at whom you are pissed.

It has been argued that food and eating have replaced sex as our foremost cultural taboo.7 To some extent I agree with this but would point out that the taboo is not against food, or sex, or flesh, but against a loss of control.

If the madness is collective and the illness is cultural it can be hard to diagnose, let alone treat.

Then there are other conservatives—many I know—who have more in common with Andrew Jackson than with Edmund Burke. Their hope is to build cultural siege-cannon out of the populist steel of Idaho, Mississippi, and working-class Milwaukee, and then blast the Eastern liberal establishment to ideo-institutional smithereens.

After defeating the Axis powers in the Second World War with its military and industrial might, the United States then set about waging and winning a far more subtle war against the whole world: a war of cultural superiority.

Energetics are cultural; tastes and pharmacology are physical.

Even catholics have hail marys. Jews only have guilt.

Perhaps women were once so dangerous they had to have their feet bound.

Blacks should be used to play whites. For centuries we had probed their faces, the angles of their bodies, the sounds of their voices, and even their odors. Often our survival had depended on the accurate reading of a white man's chuckle or the disdainful wave of a white woman's hand.

There is an undercurrent of cultural changes in the Middle East region driven by the globalization of media and the Internet. Smart leaders will anticipate these changes and initiate gradual democratic reforms to avoid political instability and economic problems.

Looking for a saviour in the sky? Be serious! Know you still not that there ain't any saviour but science! Get rid of your cultural craps and your religious illusions! Be realist! In this universe, only the realists have the chance to save themselves!

We say to the British government: you have kept those sculptures for almost two centuries. You have cared for them as well as you could, for which we thank you. But now in the name of fairness and morality, please give them back.