Quotes About Culture

The past is indeed 'another country'.

Russians in Kiev never expected the Ukrainian forces to put up much of a fight. Deliberately ignoring the reality of Ukrainian culture and history, they had taken Ukrainian patriotism as little more than a joke.

Food, as one academic has noted, defined how Russians endured the present, imagined the future, and connected to their past.

Mom and I argued about every other dish on the menu. But on this we agreed: without kulebiaka, there could be no proper Silver Age Moscow repast.

Why are you emigrating?" "Coz I'm sick of celebrations," says the Jew. "Bought toilet paper—celebration; bought kolbasa—more celebrating.

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The culture of blame that is so prevalent in organizations is replaced with a culture of deep responsibility-taking and accountability.

What is more important in a library than anything else - than everything else - is the fact that it exists.

A tawdry, cartoonlike version of female sexuality has become so ubiquitous, it no longer seems particular. What we once regarded as a *kind* of sexual expression we now regard *as* sexuality.

For as long as I can remember, I have felt the shtetl nipping at my heels.

Though Margaret has a South African accent and my mother retains a vaguely midwestern inflection, flecks of Yiddish float through both of their speech. They are the same size and shape (small, with fluffy silver heads of hair) and they both wear loose shirts and comfortable sandals.

I was standing in the shower the other day, picking up my shampoo," she said. "It's called 'Dumb Blonde.' I thought, Thirty years ago you could not have sold this. I think we have lost consciousness of the way our culture demeans women.

If there are two definitive features of ancient Greek civilization, they are loquacity and competition.

Comedy has had no history, because it was not at first treated seriously.

the use of music for intellectual enjoyment in leisure;

All art, all education, can be merely a supplement to nature.

Correct habituation distinguishes a good political system from a bad one.

Tolerance is the last virtue of a dying society

Tolerance and Apathy are the last virtues of a dying society

Loyal, happy employees are engaged employees—and engaged employees are profitable employees

Her Mao tse-tung t-shirt was stretched so tightly across her chest that the Chairman was grinning broadly

If she ever had a child, she would want him to grow up in San Francisco, where Mardi Gras was celebrated at least five times a year.

Can a Filipina be depicted as smart without having to shout all the time? Or down-to-earth and honest without having to start every sentence with a snarky 'Hay nako' or 'Alam mo bah'?

There grows in the North Country a certain kind of youth of whom it may be said that he is born to be a Londoner.