Quotes About Culture

You cannot write about what people are really like without making a political adjudication. All our ideas of what human nature consists of or how people really feel and experience life are, at their base, political ideas.

Post-modernism is dead because it didn't address human needs.

Companies in the East put a lot more emphasis on human relationships, while those from the West focus on the product, the bottom line. Westerners appear to have more of a need for achievement, while in the East there's more need for affiliation.

Each story in 'Paava Kadhaigal' explores human relationships from a perspective that it has never been looked at before - how far would one go in the name of honor.

SK will evolve and develop based on its corporate culture and human resources.

The UN declaration on human rights must always be first in line before religion or other cultural habits, in case of any conflict between them.

You couldn't have human society without language.

The differences between the sexes are the single most important fact of human society.

Humanism and Divinity are as complementary to one another in theorder of culture, as are Nature and Grace in the order of being.

Confucius was a humanist and an agnostic.

Anything that brings people to see Shakespeare is fine by me. He's the great humanist.

You have to open your mind. I like the ability to express myself in a deep way. It's the closest music to our humanity - it's like a folk music that rises up out of a culture.

History was always the subject that I loved the most, and I felt it gave me the deepest sense of our humanity and who we are and where we're going.

Humankind has been telling stories forever and will be telling stories forever.

Clothing is the closest thing to all humans.

'Humans' seems to have gone down really well in the U.S. That doesn't happen for British TV drama - unless we're talking 'Downton Abbey.'

I think Aussies try to stay humble.

I think the Polynesian people and the gospel are in harmony. We're very respectful people, and very humble people... and I try and let that shine through as much as possible.

Culturally, you know, I come from a Samoan background where the food is very humble, it's very simple.

It is a humbling experience when you travel around and you meet people all over the world and I take all that into consideration when I am writing songs at home.

Humility is considered an un-masculine quality.

You have to have a little humility if you're Danish because you're never going to be able to travel outside the country unless you can speak another language.

I do think that working with Canadians, there is quite a sense of humility.

I think Canadian humor is a little less broad than American humor.