Quotes About Culture

Between 1933 and 1938, a great exodus of German Jews began, far greater in its extent than that of the Spanish Jews after 1492 or that of the Huguenots after the revocation of the edict of Nantes. More than 450,000 Jews left central Europe as it came under Nazi rule.37 The whole of German-Jewish culture was exiled

the Jewish Enlightenment (Haskalah) appeared half a century later than in Berlin, Vienna or Paris, and took on a national form: secularization and modernization gave birth to a Jewish nation whose pillars were the Yiddish language and culture.

other words, she seems to ignore the fact that political participation presupposes access to culture and information, mastery of the tools of reflection, a certain availability of time and, above all, the satisfaction of socially determined needs.

El estudio de la naturaleza no forma jactanciosos artífices de la charlatanería ni ostentadores de la cultura por la que pugna la mayoría, sino espíritus independientes, capaces, orgullosos de sus propios bienes y no de los que surgen de las circunstancias.

No, pos, de nada," the Mexican said with the typical humility that has always bewildered my American need to take credit.

between 1995 and 2000 more than 12,000 new works on the Third Reich were published,

Travel provided many interesting experiences, but perhaps the most useful lesson I learned was that I really had no proficiency for learning the thousands of characters of the written Chinese language.

We live in a media world simultaneously obsessed with technology and personality.

Vociferous international audiences thronged the streets. Actually, it is nothing more nor less than an Italian version of Birmingham.

The logic of Michelangelo's David, Beethoven's quartets and Einstein's physics had been replaced by that of the Stock Exchange Year Book and Hitler's Mein Kampf.

It is only by introducing the young to great literature, drama and music, and to the excitement of great science that we open to them the possibilities that lie within the human spirit -- enable them to see visions and dream dreams.

The movies people don't talk about or remember after six months' time don't really matter.

Fashion, which elevates the bad to the level of the good, subsqequently turns its back on bad and good alike.

Raising" children is primarily a matter of teaching them what games to play. Different cultures and different social classes favor different types of games, and various tribes and families favor different variations of these. That is the cultural significance of games.

the Turkish language has changed so radically since the time of Kemal's "Nutuk" that a Turk living today would not be able to understand his actual words. The speech literally has to be translated for contemporary Turkish speakers. Most important, any record, history, or document created prior to 1929 is totally unreadable by all Turks

de lo que podemos considerar como el aspecto sórdido de la vida se origina en la conformidad de "lo que se hace". ¿Cuántos

Apparently, myths become truths if upheld long enough.

It's like trying to convince someone to go on a lengthy, expensive European vacation when you yourself have never left the country.

When all the original blues guys are gone, you start to realize that someone has to tend to the tradition. I recognize that I have some responsibility to keep the music alive, and it's a pretty honorable position to be in.

Give up Spanish, give up anything in the language that broke our hearts. Do not be tempted by English, the language that breaks our souls. Speak only in the tongue of tongues before any white man came.

Like Sir Isaac Newton, after insight hit in falling fruit, they recognized the perfect label for Indians not sharp enough to make it all the way home, left in that space between two places. Red on the outside, white on the inside, forever locked away from both worlds, separated by the thinnest membrane.

My mother explains we are not legless birds, mutants. If she'd had a better education she would have know the word "ambiguous," not quite fish, more than snake, but settling into her limitations, she says we are among the few (the Marines?). The last Tuscarora Eel died a generation ago, so we are left Onondaga Eels among the Tuscarora, opinions dismissed by politics of representation, voices silenced in air and water.

and P.L.O. Guy (whose initials were okay for then but mean something entirely different now).

more than the drought and climate change that may have been ravaging these areas during this period, what we see are the results of a systems collapse that brought down the flourishing cultures and peoples of the Bronze Age.6