Quotes About Culture

I am not so shocked by savages who roast and eat the bodies of their dead as by those who torture and persecute the living.

Just as any foreigner is not fully human.]

Chacun appelle barbarie ce qui n'est pas de son usage.

En az bildiÄŸimiz ÅŸeyler tanr?laÅŸmaya en elveriÅŸli olanlard?r. Onun içindir ki Yunanl?lar?n, biz insanlar? tanr?laÅŸt?rmalar?na bir türlü ak?l erdiremem.

Decía la suegra de Pitágoras que la mujer que se acuesta con un hombre debe dejar también la vergüenza con la ropa y recuperarla con las enaguas.

He didn't want to be like some old-fashioned imperialist missionary, poncing about like Moses in a safari suit, capitalizing on a misconception that he was from the same tribe as Jesus and that God was an Englishman.

El hombre no sólo vive de alta cultura.

A way of life can be shared among individuals of different ages, status, and social activity. It can yield intense relations not resembling those that are institutionalized. It seems to me that a way of life can yield a culture and an ethics. To be gay, I think, is not to identify with the psychological traits and the visible masks of the homosexual but to try and define and develop a way of life.

In any given culture and at any given moment, there is always only one 'episteme' that defines the conditions of possibility of all knowledge, whether expressed in theory or silently invested in a practice.

History is one way in which a society recognizes and develops a mass of documentation with which it is inextricably linked.

It may well be that we talk about sex more than anything else; we set our minds to the task; we convince ourselves that were have never said enough on the subject...where sex is concerned the most long-winded, the most impatient of societies is our own.

Religion for them [Iranians] was like a promise and guarantee of finding something that would radically change their subjectivity

If instructional expertise and cultural competence, or the ability to teach across difference, are essential to improving student achievement, then teachers are educational leaders with the greatest scope of influence

All over the planet, conflicts between tradition and modernity are being fought on the terrain of women's bodies.

If Scotsmen don't wear anything under their kilts and they ride a horse, do you think they chafe their manbits?

Men imagine gods to be born, and to have clothes and voices and shapes like theirs....Yea, the gods of the Ethiopians are black and flat-nosed, and the gods of the Thracians are red-haired and blue-eyed.

Las calles, la plaza y los edificios no hacían un pueblo, ni tan siquiera le daban fisionomía. A un pueblo lo hacían sus hombres y su historia. [...] Por las casas que flanqueaban pasaron hombres honorables, que hoy eran sombras, pero que dieron al pueblo y al valle un sentido, una armonía, unas costumbres, un ritmo, un modo propio y peculiar de vivir.

La afición a la lectura ha llegado a ser tan peligrosa que el analfabetismo se hace deseable y honroso.

Hemos matado la cultura campesina pero no la hemos sustituido por nada, al menos, por nada noble

We were born in this society, we grew up in this society. And we learn to be like everyone else, playing nonsense all the time.

What we call education is nothing but domestication of the human being.

That is how we pass our disease to our children, and that is how our parents, our teachers, our older siblings, the whole society of sick people infected us with that disease.

We are born with the capacity to learn how to dream, and the humans who live before us teach us how to dream the way society dreams.

Anthropologists