Quotes About Culture

Let us all be from somewhere.

different era." "A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court

The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift.

the Trump election had rekindled the divide in the country. There was a more hostile relationship with the media. The culture wars were reinvigorated. There was a racist tinge. Trump accelerated it.

Porter saw it from up close—perhaps as close as anyone on the staff except Hope Hicks—the Trump election had rekindled the divide in the country. There was a more hostile relationship with the media. The culture wars were reinvigorated. There was a racist tinge. Trump accelerated it.

As a kid, I read a lot about the Holocaust and Germany in the 1930s, (Bernie) Sanders later told others. Germany was one of the most cultured countries in Europe. One of the most advanced countries. So how could a country of Beethoven, of so many poets and writers, and Einstein, progress to barbarianism? How does that happen? We have to tackle that question. and it's not easy.

Jon Meacham's 2018 book, The Soul of America.

My theory on literature is an author who does not indulge in trashiness-writes about people you could introduce into your own home...he did not care to read a book or go to a play about people he would not care to meet at his own dinner table. I believe we should live by certain standards and ideals...

Toda esa tristeza del tango es lo que ha llevado a gente a afirmar que el tango es «un pensamiento triste que se baila»

Dios es concebido de distintas formas dependiendo del desarrollo personal de los creyentes y según su contexto cultural.

Aren't we sensitive! We're something special. We're cultured. It's too much for us.

All these twelve years of secondary school and university, Yura had studied classics and religion, legends and poets, the sciences of the past and of nature, as if it were all the family chronicle of his own house, his own genealogy.

Rome was a marketplace of borrowed gods and conquered peoples

Let's face it—you don't find many Indian or Jewish cliques in prison (mostly because we're all in medical school. Haha).

If you can't say something nice... about an overrated, ungrateful European nation that would have been wiped off the face of the earth twice in the twentieth century if it weren't for the United States and which has given nothing to the culture in the past two hundred years but whine and cheese, both of which are made better in California, then don't say anything at all!

we still live in a world where might makes right. The moment we lose sight of that rule and start shrinking from our duties as a nation, is when we'll all need to begin trading in our minivans and baseball mitts for prayer rugs and Arabic lessons.

The worth of a culture, in his opinion, could be boiled down to one thing—how well that culture took care of its weakest members, particularly its women and children.

There are very few things in the world as pleasing to the ear as English spoken by a Russian woman.

There was no moral equivalence among systems of government, their leaders, or cultures. Any society that did not respect human rights or the rule of law could not consider itself the equal of those that did.

Citing the Koran, the Saudis claimed to be preserving their Islamic values by blocking access to any materials that contradicts their beliefs or might influence their culture. All this while they smoked, drank, did drugs, and whored in foreign countries. The hypocrisy of it all we have been amusing is the net affect wasn't so lamentable for the average Saudi citizen.

There was one difference I would come to realize, between white kids and Indians. Among white kids there are tattletales everywhere. Indians? An Indian wouldn't tattle to save his own mother. Indians, over the years, have learned the value of keeping their mouths shut.

We are in Transylvania, and Transylvania is not England. Our ways are not your ways, and there shall be to you many strange things. Nay, from what you have told me of your experiences already, you know something of what strange things there may be.

It seems to me that the further East you go the more unpunctual are the trains. What ought they to be in China? - Jonathan Harker

I had for breakfast more paprika, and a sort of porridge of maize flour which they said was mamaliga, and egg-plant stuffed with forcemeat, a very excellent dish, which they call impletata. (Mem.,get recipe for this also.)