Quotes About Culture

However muted its present appearance may be, sexual dominion obtains nevertheless as perhaps the most pervasive ideology of our culture and provides its most fundamental concept of power.

although of itself it appears a biological and physical activity, it is set so deeply within the larger context of human affairs that it serves as a charged microcosm of the variety of attitudes and values to which culture subscribes. Among

Perhaps patriarchy's greatest psychological weapon is simply its universality and longevity. A

You see, if you ask an American how they are, they say fine, but if you ask a Russian, well, let's just say there's a reason why War and Peace is such a long book.

As George Lakoff and Mark Johnson vividly illustrate in their 1980 classic, Metaphors We Live By, orientational metaphors such as 'good is up' and 'good is forward' are deeply embedded in Western culture, shaping the way we think and speak.

Lastly, how are we socially locked in, addicted to and stuck on GDP growth? Through the culture of consumerism and the tensions created by inequality, which in turn are rooted in the need for something to aspire to. Despite being far richer than kings of old, we are too easily trapped on a treadmill of consumerism, continually searching for identity, connection and self-transformation through the things that we buy.

The rise of shareholder capitalism entrenched the culture of shareholder primacy, with the belief that a company's primary obligation is to maximise returns for those who own its shares.

There are so many sad people nowadays that sadness looks normal.

Never argue Greek legends with a Greek...

There are lots of different ways for women to be a mom in this culture.

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I was gazing at: Brighton Beach Avenue, a four-lane road below the elevated train, was lined with endless storefronts—delis, hair salons, bookstores, dentists, funeral homes, palm readers—

Victoria liked music full of high passion and drama. "I am a terribly modern person," she decided.

I am more English than the English.- Rudolf de Vitt

Life in a palace rather resembles camping in a museum

But just because stories are unwritten for a time, it doesn't mean they'll be unwritten forever. And just because stories don't get written down, it doesn't mean they're ever lost. We carry them in our minds, our hearts, our very bones. We honour them by passing them on, letting them live on in others, too. — foreword by Alicia Elliott

You aren't taking any more of our children.

There are some circles in America where it seems to be more socially acceptable to carry a hand-gun than a packet of cigarettes.

It's a man's world, and you men can have it.

The Roman bath culture died slowly, fizzling out at various times and places in the waning empire. Ironically, as political and economic troubles made it difficult to maintain the great thermae where the people bathed, bishops, popes and emperors continued to build and enlarge lavish baths in their residences. From being a resource for all, the baths declined into an aristocratic preserve.

English innovation was the indoor toilet, as opposed to an outdoor privy. Beginning about 1770, such an accommodation was known in France as the "lieu à l'anglaise," or "the English place.

But far more than the Jewish quarter or the bestequipped monastery, the cleanest corner of early medieval Europe was Arab Spain. Unlike in Christianity, cleanliness was an important religious requirement for the Muslim, and a ninth-century observer described the Andalusian Arabs as "the cleanest people on earth.

One of the Spaniards' first actions during the Reconquest was to destroy the Moorish baths.

the cleanest corner of early medieval Europe was Arab Spain.