Quotes About Culture

After all, the more women are developed internally, the more this is threatening to a society that insists on seeing them merely externally.

These images point to a very real and important truth: what women will and will not permit does have a profound way of influencing the behavior of an entire society.

This is becoming our great modern divide, his commitment problem and her hang-up problem. These two problems have emerged together for a reason. A society which sees her modesty or her "hang-ups" as a problem is necessarily a society which will not be able to get him to commit.

My encounters with racism are sort of second-hand situations where I might be standing around with a group of white friends and someone makes a comment that they wouldn't make at my family reunion.

May I propose a Herzog dictum? those who read own the world, and those who watch television lose it.

As we search for a less extractive and polluting economic order, so that we may fit agriculture into the economy of a sustainable culture, community becomes the locus and metaphor for both agriculture and culture.

We have become a more juvenile culture. We have become a childish "me, me, me" culture with fifteen-second attention spans. The global village that television was supposed to bring is less a village than a playground... Little attempt is made to pass on our cultural inheritance, and our moral and religious traditions are neglected except in the shallow "family values" arguments.

The dialectical or ecological approach asserts that creating the world is involved in our every act. It is impossible for us to operate in our daily lives and not create the world that everyone must live in. What we desire arranges the genetic code in all of our major crops and livestock. We cannot avoid participating in the creation, and it is in agriculture, far and away our largest and most basic artifact, that human culture and the creation totally interpenetrate.

Our task is to build cultural fortresses to protect our emerging nativeness. They must be strong enough to hold at bay the powers of consumerism, the powers of greed and envy and pride. One of the most effective ways for this to come about would be for our universities to assume the awesome responsibility to both validate and educate those who want to be homecomers -- not necessarily to go home but to go someplace and dig in and begin the long search and experiment to become native.

The success of a company depends on the smile on the employee's face and the sparkle in the customer's eyes."

dependency harms culture. People thrive the more they can be self-reliant.

These younger composers were generally male, but then composers were almost exclusively male. Even the female composers were almost exclusively male.)

They change what they do not like,' said Jessold, referring to the singers. 'And they do not like what they cannot remember. That accounts for the basic truth of folk-song.

We cannot permit strong chieftains or groups of young Huns to attempt the founding of customs that serve only their purpose. Customs are of nations, not of individuals.

And if everything is geeky, maybe nothing is geeky, and that means that gate-keeping in geek and nerd culture is a pointless waste of time.

I'm not a prophet I can only use historical reality to come to a view of the future, and my view is that Africa will return to being African and not European. The advent of colonialism was foreign to the country itself, but it will return to what it was before the Europeans arrived.

The deserts in which I have travelled had been blanks in time as well as space. They had no intelligible history, the nomads who inhabited them had no known past.

Let them look to the past, but let them also look to the future let them look to the land of their ancestors, but let them look also to the land of their children.

It is said culture requires slaves. I say that no cultured society can be built with slaves. This terrible Twentieth Century has made all cultural theories from Plato down seem ridiculous. Little man, there has never been a human culture.

Religiosity that is hostile to sex is the product of authoritarian society.

In real man, the "god-given" genital embrace has turned into the pornographic 4-lettering male-female intercourse.

Bilgili kimseye öykünmeyi beceremiyorsun ama soyguncuya öykünmeyi çok iyi beceriyorsun. Filmlerin, radyo programlar?n, "güldürü kitaplar?n" hep cinayetlerle dolu.

Le but de l'éducation, dès son origine, est d'élever les enfants en vue du mariage et de la famille. (p. 134)

The best and noblest parts of man depend precious little on culture, education, and whatever else it is called. One can never have enough respect for true humanity as it is visible in the persons of the totally uneducated classes, and never enough humility if one sometimes believes one is superior to them.