Quotes About Culture

The relevance of the church is not found in its capitulation to culture but in its transformation of culture.

A myth is a religion in which no one any longer believes.

Pasaulyje, kuris tampa vis labiau kapitalistinis, vienintelis b?das garantuoti kokios nors kult?rin?s praktikos ar gamtovaizdžio išlikim? - surasti j? komercinio panaudojimo b?d?.

The quotation-business is booming. No subdivision of the culture seems too narrow to have a quotation book of its own.... It would be an understatement to say that these books lean on one another. To compare them is to stroll through a glorious jungle of incestuous mutual plagiarism.

Of course he has a knife, he always has a knife, we all have knives! It's 1183 and we're barbarians!

The difference between our decadence and the Russians' is that while theirs is brutal, ours is apathetic.

Woe to our time, for the study of letters has perished from among us.

I don't think anything changes until ideas change. The usual American viewpoint is to believe that something is wrong with the person.

Psychotherapy theory turns it all on you: you are the one who is wrong. If a kid is having trouble or is discouraged, the problem is not just inside the kid it's also in the system, the society.

The culture is going into a psychological depression. We are concerned about our place in the world, about being competitive: Will my children have as much as I have? Will I ever own my own home? How can I pay for a new car? Are immigrants taking away my white world?

Of course, a culture as manically and massively materialistic as ours creates materialistic behavior in its people, especially in those people who've been subjected to nothing but the destruction of imagination that this culture calls education, the destruction of autonomy it calls work, and the destruction of activity it calls entertainment.

As the ego does not represent the whole psyche, so the Western mind cannot speak for the whole world.

fundamentalism is a form of mental illness that seeks to repress anxiety, ambiguity, and ambivalence. The more mature the personality structure, the greater the capacity of the person, and the culture, to tolerate the anxiety, ambiguity, and ambivalence that are a necessary and unavoidable dimension of our lives.

When they come to chronicle the decline of this civilization," he said, "they're going to wonder why we were debating flag burning, abortion, and broccoli eating instead of the fundamental issues of how we live and use the environment.

The culture of good place-making, like the culture of farming, or agriculture, is a body of knowledge and acquired skills. It is not bred in the bone, and if it is not transmitted from one generation to the next, it is lost.

Ireland sober is Ireland stiff.

Still drink most o' their beer outta bottles, that's how underdeveloped they are.

Create the highest possible operating standards, develop the character of your players, develop the culture of your team and, as the title of Walsh's book proclaims, The Score Takes Care of Itself.

Walsh knew,' Stuart Lancaster, the current England rugby coach, told rugby writer Mark Reason, 'that if you established a culture higher than that of your opposition, you would win. So rather than obsessing about the results, you focus on the team.

si estableces una cultura del esfuerzo más elevada que la de tu oponente, ganas. Así pues, en lugar de obsesionarte por los resultados, te concentras en el equipo»

Collective character is vital to success. Focus on getting the culture right; the results will follow.

No one is bigger than the team and individual brilliance does not automatically lead to outstanding results. One selfish mindset will infect a collective culture.

The Virginians of the mountains, and of the broad valley of the Shenandoah River just beyond, were a different breed.

Fin Gall - Gaelic term for Vikings of Norwegian descent. It means White Strangers.