Quotes About Culture

In some organizations, it is easy to say mistakes are okay when in truth it is a zero-defect organization. You will be remembered more for your mistakes than your successes in those organizations.

Animistic savages prostrating themselves before a painted stone have always seemed to me to be nearer the truth than any Einstein or Bertrand Russell.

One can hardly be Indian and not know that almost every accent, which hand you eat your food with, has some deeper symbolic truth, reality.

But the truth is, growing up in California, we knew nothing about hockey.

One time, a Protestant minister said, "We made Jesus blonde haired and blue eyed and very cute. We made Jesus somehow a much more feminine figure." And there's probably truth to that.

If I was English would I be respected a bit more? Yes, I think so, that's the truth.

Though her soul requires seeing, the culture around her requires sightlessness. Though her soul wishes to speak its truth, she is pressured to be silent.

Our culture is superior. Our culture is superior because our religion is Christianity and that is the truth that makes men free.

The truth is, just to hear other people speaking Italian is really worth it. It keeps the sound in your ear.

Truth can never be confined to time and culture; in history it is known, but it also reaches beyond history.

We live in a culture where the truth claims of Christianity are not only rejected, they are ridiculed.

Religion is not a popular error; it is a great instinctive truth, sensed by the people, expressed by the people.

The African tribesman, with his complete contempt for truth and his emphasis on brutality and savagery for others but not for himself, is a no-civilization.

The truth of no truths becomes, inevitably, truth: a way of naming being, language, and culture that guards the boundaries of thought against claims it has not validated.

But the music business is no more about truth on the outside of the Christian ghetto than it is on the inside.

Lying has become so much the accepted norm that people lie even when it would be simpler to tell the truth.

Persia is very different from the Arab Middle East in terms of architecture and language. Even though we think of them as one big Middle Eastern area, in truth, Persia's quite distinct.

All is race - there is no other truth.

We are a culture of people who've bought into the idea that if we stay busy enough, the truth of our lives won't catch up with us.

You treat violence as an aberration ... when in truth it is the norm. It is the very essence of the human condition.

The plain truth is that the period I study is the 16th century, and they were absolutely obsessed with witches and spiritual beings.

The power of the voice in rap is about the expression of truth, rather than the expression of some kind of artifice.

I don't think we're living in great times for movies, to tell you the truth.

Almost everything that gets called "universal truth" or "common sense" is actually cultural. And too easily twisted into justifications for all kinds of behavior.