Quotes About Culture

War is not inherent in human beings. We learn war and we learn peace. The culture of peace is something which is learned, just as violence is learned and war culture is learned.

The American Indian was an individualist in religion as in war. He had neither a national army nor an organized church.

These people were well dressed in skins, had some guns, but armed generally with bows and arrows and such other instruments of war as are common among the Indians of the Missouri.

Back when the country was strong, back before Elvis and before the Vietnam war came along.

When a culture simply shrugs about what happens to people in war, it breaks the fragile sequence, the bond between all people.

The Japanese Prime Minister has apologized for Japan's part in World War II. However, he still hasn't mentioned anything about karaoke.

The world does not need a war against 'terrorism', it needs a culture of peace based on human rights for all.

I was drinking tea the other day, and I thought: they used to fight wars over this.

War is not an accident. It is the logical outcome of a certain way of life.

Africa the continent is not just what we see on the news. It's... not AIDS, and it's not just war and poverty. It's so much more. It's an abundant continent, and Botswana is an abundant place.

Political correctness is a war on noticing.

The greatest change in corporate culture - and the way business is being conducted - may be the accelerated growth of relationships based... on partnership.

Instead of going to war, we should put the money into arts and culture and let creative people define what Britain is.

When music and courtesy are better understood and appreciated, there will be no war.

I must study war and politics so that my children shall be free to study commerce, agriculture and other practicalities, so that their children can study painting, poetry and other fine things.

There was a cultural war going on, the '60s was going on. All the film critics were square.

War is, we have been forced to admit, even in the face of its huge place in our civilization, an asocial trait.

The hospitality of the wigwam is only limited by the institution of war.

There is not a respectable system of civilization known to history whose foundations were not laid in the institution of domestic slavery.

Vermeer's woman reading a letter is as full of latent or subliminal kitsch as Tolstoy's War and Peace.

America today is a confused society, caught up in a terror war, a culture war, and a media war, where honesty and professional standards have vanished.

Girls would never do anything so unladylike as run, Norma explained. They would skip instead. And they would never, goodness gracious, sit so their skirts would hike up. Both boys and girls were taught respect for their elders, which included never interrupting or talking back to any adult. "I'm glad I didn't live back then," Catherine said (but not until later, when she wasn't interrupting anyone).

I know that nobody who has grown up in a Jewish environment can ever be not-a-Jew, whether the Jewishness he experienced was defined by his family's sense of history, by its religious observances, or, indeed, by the environment's attitudes toward Jews.

After all, you didn't stay what your people were. No, it was what you were yourself that counted - why, that was the very foundation of America, thought Brook.