Quotes About Culture

I realised a long time ago that instrumental music speaks a lot more clearly than English, Spanish, Yiddish, Swahili, any other language. Pure melody goes outside time.

Man simply cannot live as the time-animal and the art-animal that he is, without history.

Ireland has the oldest literature in Europe in a native language.

No matter where I've been overseas, the food stinks, except in Italy.

Storytelling is not something we do. Storytelling is who we are.

Some people are not used to an environment where excellence is expected

Over time culture turns into an incredible competitive advantage that no one can take away from you," Herrera told me. "If your service is any good at all, people will try to duplicate it. But a great culture is practically impossible to duplicate unless you have the same great people.

The whole culture of the white South was erected on the presumption of black inability.

An organization might embody a fixed mindset, conveying that employees either 'have it' or they don't: We called this a 'culture of genius.' Or it might embody more of a growth mindset, conveying that people can grow and improve with effort, good strategies, and good mentoring: We call this a 'culture of development.

We live in a culture that has institutionalized the oppression of animals on at least two levels: in formal structures such as slaughterhouses, meat markets, zoos, laboratories, and circuses, and through our language. That we refer to meat eating rather than to corpse eating is a central example of how our language transmits the dominant culture's approval of this activity.

Dominance functions best in a culture of disconnections and fragmentation. Feminism recognizes connections. Imagine

In some respects we all acknowledge the sexual politics of meat. When we think that men, especially male athletes, need meat, or when wives report that they could give up meat but they fix it for their husbands, the overt association between meat eating and virile maleness is enacted. It is the covert associations that are more elusive to pinpoint as they are so deeply embedded within our culture. My

The process of viewing another as consumable, as something, is usually invisible to us. Its invisibility occurs because it corresponds to the view of the dominant culture. The process is also invisible to use because the end product of the process - the object of consumption - is available everywhere.

I think that in terms of emotion, that our culture allows men to be angry. The animal rights movement gives men a legitimate reason to be angry. I don't think our culture should give men any more reason--that the animal rights movement should not be the place to give men more reasons to be angry. That is not what we need in the world.

Vegetarians, despite the variety of ways in which to argue their perspective, always appear to be saying "Don't eat meat." Meat eaters cannot make sense of this because a part of their definition of what makes sense is eating meat.

There should be more to writing than entertaining an already-brain-dead society and making money. If not,then you miss the point of writing.

Savages were savages, but what could one expect of civilized men who plotted massacre?

I said to David, "You know, in France, when they're nice to you, you feel like you've passed a test. But in Italy, there is no test.

La lección es esta: crea una organización que aprecie el desarrollo de las habilidades, y observa cómo emergen los líderes. 93

That generation's shibboleths—well, you know. What

I think the female form is so beautiful that I'm sure belly dance was created when a drummer watched a woman walking down the street. The sway of her hips was intoxicating and pulled the rhythm right out of the drum.

The book is man's best invention so far.

A liberal-arts education is supposed to provide you with a value system, a standard, a set of ideas, not a job.

Three weird sisters in an antifeminist trifecta, they each celebrated in their books the strapping male as a hero, and exhibited a striking dissociation from what was happening around the world.