Quotes About Culture

BeÅŸerî geleneklere bakt???m?zda daimi evliliklerin, esasen iki bireyin aras?ndaki kal?c? cinsel aÅŸka dayanmad???n?, onun yerine iktisadî kayg?larla düzenlendiÄŸini görürüz. Resmî evlilik, mülkiyetin aktar?lmas?yla ilgili bir meseledir.

Ethnography must become self-critical, imaginative, and constructive; the field worker must be a willing agent of reform, but without sacrificing his scientific integrity.

Der Weg der neuen Bildung geht von Humanität durch Nationalität zur Bestialität.

Poetry is practically the only intellectual pursuit which we can be positive was highly developed and much practiced in pre-Islamic Arabia. It seems certain that the Arabic word for poet, shair, meant originally "one who knows," and the word for poetry, shir, "knowledge".

Love is only surpassing sweet when it is directed toward a mortal object, and the secret of this ultimate sweetness only is defined by the bitterness of death. Thus the white peoples of the world foresee a time when their land with its rivers and mountains still lies under heaven as it does today, but other people dwell there; when their language is entombed in books, and their laws and customs have lost their living power.

4 If you're going to San Francisco / Be sure to wear some flowers in your hair / You're going to meet some gentle people there.

Everything is for the eye these days - TV, Life, Look, the movies. Nothing is just for the mind. The next generation will have eyeballs as big as cantaloupes and no brain at all.

The Polar Intuit of northwest Greenland, the northernmost people, call February 'seqinniaq', "the month when the sun appears.

the majority of women in the Muslim world across the ages, who worked in the fields, did not cover their faces and do not do so to this day. Full veiling is an urban and largely modern institution.

It is a mistake to imagine that potentially great men are rare. It is the conditions that permit the promise of greatness to be fulfilled that are rare. What is so difficult to achieve is the cultural background that permits potential greatness to be converted into actual greatness.

Race prejudice has unfortunately become an American tradition which is uncritically handed down from one generation to the next," Einstein declared.

He became what his language made him.

The reality is that the major environmental problems we face today - of which climate change is only one - cannot be solved by means of technological or market-based solutions while keeping existing social relations intact. Rather, what is needed most is a transformation in social relations: in community, culture, and economy, in how we relate to each other as human beings, and how we relate to the planet. What is needed, in other words, is an ecological revolution.

Quotations are the backbone of much of literature, and of the transmission of art and thought more generally. . . . The delight is our natural response to the monuments of creativity and wisdom, kept alive by quotations, a communal bond uniting us with past culture and with other lovers of words and ideas in our own time.

We want to raise our children so that they can take a sense of pleasure in both their own heritage and the diversity of others.

When I think of solitude, I think of an anecdote from With the Door Open: My Experience by the late Danish religious philosopher Johannes Anker Larsen: "The most comprehensive formula for human culture which I know was given by the old peasant who, on his death bed, obtained from his son this one promise: to sit every day for half an hour alone in the best room.

After two years in Washington, I often long for the realism and sincerity of Hollywood.

I made sure about their past before shaking hands with them. You have to be careful before you can accept a German.

Of all the achievements of the human mind, the birth of the alphabet is the most momentous.

In modernism, as I will try to show later on, some residual zones of "nature" or "being" of the old, the older, the archaic, still subsist; culture can still do something to that nature and work at transforming that "referent." Postmodernism is what you have when the modernization process is complete and nature is gone for good.

I feel myself alien from everyone; that is my kind of Jewishness.

There is an aphorism that you cannot buy the loyalty of an Afghan, but you can always rent it.

Chinese consider eating food to be one of the rare joys of living...

in traditional China the frequency of eating out was a fairly good indication of a person's rank in society.