Quotes About Culture

fiction has served to propagate the notion that courtesans ply their trade in the area and that geiko spend the night with their customers. Once an idea like this is planted in the general culture it takes on a life of its own. I understand that there are some scholars of Japan in foreign countries who also believe these misconceptions to be true. But

empezó a comer sin decir el tradicional itadakimasu, que significa recibo estos alimentos con humilde gratitud. Es una forma de reconocer los esfuerzos que han hecho los granjeros y otros proveedores para que la comida llegue a la mesa.

Los quimonos son nuestra vida. Lléveselo si lo desea, pero tendrá que llevarme también a mí. ¡Puede ocupar mi país, pero jamás ocupará mi alma!

l'idea di una casa di geisha intesa come covo di malaffare è tanto ridicola. Gli uomini sono a stento ammessi all'interno di questi bastioni della società femminile, figuriamoci se potrebbero mai intrattenersi con uno dei suoi membri

When one approaches an exotic spirituality, one understands principally what one is predestined to understand by one's own vocation, by one's own cultural orientation and that of the historical moment to which one belongs.

All culture is a "fall" into history...

Thus, for example, all the aspects of the culture of Jericho would deserve a religious commentary. It is perhaps the most ancient city on earth (ca. 6850, 6770 B.C.),31 though it is ignorant of ceramics. However, the fortifications, the massive tower, the large public edifices—at least one of which seems to have been built for ritual ceremonies—denote a social integration and an economic organization that are the prelude to the future city-states of Mesopotamia.

The term initiation in the most general sense denotes a body of rites and oral teachings whose purpose is to produce a decisive alteration in the religious and social status of the person to be initiated.

En resumen, la mayoría de los hombres -sin religión- comparten aún pseudo religiones y mitologías degradadas. Cosa que en nada nos asombra, desde el momento en que el hombre profano es el descendiente del homo religiosus y no puede anular su propia historia, es decir, los comportamientos de sus antepasados religiosos, que lo han constituido tal como es hoy día.

Metallurgy as such, in Central and South America, is probably Asiatic in origin. Most recent researches tend to relate it to the South Chinese Culture of the Chou epoch (middle and late eight to fourth centuries B.C.) That would make it more or less of Danubian origin, for it was Danubian metallurgy, which in the ninth to eighth centuries B.C. arrived via the Caucasus in China.

El comportamiento religioso de los hombres contribuye a mantener la santidad del mundo.

nimeni n-a încercat, înc?, s? treac? peste obsesia "înÈ›elegerii" vieÈ›ii ca s? colaboreze cu ea; cel puÈ›in, nimeni în Europa

Tina nods sagely and says yes and then something in Plautdietsch, probably something like heck yeah do we ever know what sad is. Sadness is what holds our bones in place.

Yoli, she said, I'm just saying that apologies aren't the bedrock of civilized society. All right! I said. I agree. But what is the bedrock of civilized society? Libraries, said Elf.

Greta has many times announced that she is no longer a Mennonite -- and yet was born from Mennonites and continues to live as a Mennonite, with Mennonites, in a Mennonite colony, where she speaks the Mennonite language. Those things do not make me a Mennonite, Greta argues... [I] don't know where to go.

No m'havia fixat que rigués tant, com la seva mare, com les dones de Molotschna. Que es reservaven l'alè per riure.

But what is the bedrock of civilized society? Libraries, said Elf.

G. K. Chesterton famously quipped that "those who marry the spirit of the age will find themselves widows in the next.

Christians should see Muslims, who give ultimate allegiance to God as the supreme good, as allies in resisting the tendency in contemporary culture to see mere pleasure, rather than justice and love, as the hallmark of the good life.

Would a Catholic turn down the chance to visit Lourdes? Or a Muslim an opportunity to see Mecca? Well, no self-respecting criminal would pass up the offer of a week in Odessa.

People often belittle the place where they were born.

My mother was French Protestant, and my father was Italian Catholic, and their union was an excess of God, guilt and sauce.

People are only mean when they're threatened, and that's what our culture does...And when you get threatened, you start looking out only for yourself. You start making money a god. It is all part of this culture.

People are only mean when they're threatened, and that's what our culture does. That's what our economy does