Quotes About Culture

The problem with being British... I don't know if it's me being British or being raised a strict Catholic, but you never really enjoy success.

I've sort of escaped my background, as people often do, through art and culture.

It's not so much what you learn about Mumbai, it's what you learn about yourself, really. It's a funny old hippie thing, but it's true as well. You find out a lot about yourself and your tolerance, and about your inclusiveness.

The only way a company can grow, stay true to its soul, and remain consistently successful is to attract, hire, and keep great people.

Et c'est quoi la différence entre art et culture? L'art n'arrive que si on met sa culture en danger

on n'est pas forcément du pays où l'on est né. Il y a des grains que le vent aime semer ailleurs.

L'accent, c'est l'émotion d'une langue.

I could never share the fate of a civilization that ostracizes rice. In no way could I trust people who believe yogurt is superior to rice.

j'ignore à peu près tout de la gastronomie japonaise. Je sais seulement qu'ils consomment une quantité inimaginable de poissons. En fait, je répète ce qu'on dit habituellement à propos du Japon, je ne fais aucun effort de recherche. Je suis un parfait écho.

Un Québécois: C'est un individus prêt à mourir pour une langue qu'il ne cherche pas à bien écrire.

Ce qui est sûr c'est que je n'aurais pas écrit ainsi si j'étais resté là-bas. Peut-être que je n'aurais pas écrit du tout. Écrit-on hors de son pays pour se consoler? Je doute de toute vocation d'écrivain en exil.

I wondered if whiteness were contagious. If it were, then surely I had caught it. I imagined this "condition" affected the way I walked, talked, dressed, danced, and at its most advanced stage, the way I looked at the world and at other people.

much privilege leads to bad manners

My father's subject: the relationship between history and the individual. He believes everybody is an 'excretion' of his or her environment. That's the word he uses. Excretion.

Your problem is that you're Russian - you don't know how to be happy.

Harvard—a place, I slowly came to understand, that could teach me many things, including how to think, but that could not teach me goodness. Not because it taught the opposite, but because moral education is simply not what secular Western education or secular Western culture is for.

Every artistic expression is either influenced by or adds something to politics.

A theatre, a literature, an artistic expression that does not speak for its own time has no relevance.

Old wives' tales have hurt cats. They're not true! Who are those Old Wives?

Others argue that Jesus' presence and teaching were so powerful that they were well remembered by people who were used to passing on teaching orally. In many ways, this book is about that debate. It is a debate that rages in our culture as people speak about who Jesus was and what he taught.

historical skepticism, (2) new information, (3) cultural factors that have changed how we assess things, and (4) the innate desire in people to seek, cope with, or understand the spiritual.

the role of "myth," embellishments of Jesus that make him comparable to various divine-human figures in the larger culture (such as the Caesars) so that he can compete with them for greatness. We will have occasion to explore such questions in more depth as we proceed.

God loves the world and wants it to experience that love in Christ in such a way that it can respond to it and share it. This means, then, that no particular culture is privileged in the missionary enterprise, and no culture is rejected. All human cultures, marked as they are by the tension of being simul creatus etpeccator (simultaneously created and sinful), are honored by God as potential receivers of Christ and his calling.

but there are many languages on earth that are basically gender neutral, using the same word for he, she, and it, or not using pronouns at all. You've probably heard of some of them. They include: Armenian, Comanche, Finnish, Hungarian, Hindi, Indonesian, Quechua, Thai, Tagalog, Turkish, Vietnamese, and Yoruba.