Quotes About Cultural

He did not understand what went on in a Chinese heart, that something like this could happen. The Indians made more sense.

There is a negative proof of the value of Latin No one seems to boast of not knowing it.

It is wholly incomprehensible to think that thousands of years ago God would have felt constrained to speak in a way that would be meaningful only to Westerners several thousand years later. To do so borders on modern, Western arrogance.

The author describes the attitude of some on the frontier at Rome's twilight as exhibiting "a kind of London-in-the-blitz determination to carry on being more Roman than usual.

Humour and comedy have become a virtual monopoly of the cultural Left, because only they would ever seek to politicize humour in a free society. The only good conservative political jokes tend to come from countries under socialist oppression.

By 1957 97% of all marriageable men and women were married, and if they cared to have a social life, they stayed that way.

Postmodernism: The cultural condition marked by the absolute gratification of human desires and the absolute neglect of human needs.

Meanwhile, Shechemís father Hamor came to speak with Jacob.

When Tamar was told, “Your father-in-law is going up to Timnah to shear his sheep,”

When Judah saw her, he thought she was a prostitute because she had covered her face.

Then Tamar got up and departed. And she removed her veil and put on her widowís garments again.

Like the Anakites, they were also regarded as Rephaim, though the Moabites called them Emites.

In those days I also saw Jews who had married women from Ashdod, Ammon, and Moab.

In that day there will be a highway from Egypt to Assyria. The Assyrians will go to Egypt, and the Egyptians to Assyria. The Egyptians and Assyrians will worship together.

You are the daughter of your mother, who despised her husband and children. You are the sister of your sisters, who despised their husbands and children. Your mother was a Hittite and your father an Amorite.

Berothah, and Sibraim (which is on the border between Damascus and Hamath), as far as Hazer-hatticon, which is on the border of Hauran.

Ephraim mixes with the nations; Ephraim is an unturned cake.

Just then His disciples returned and were surprised that He was speaking with a woman. But no one asked Him, “What do You want from her?” or “Why are You talking with her?”

To the Jews I became like a Jew, to win the Jews. To those under the law I became like one under the law (though I myself am not under the law), to win those under the law.