Quotes About Culture

I believe that the way people live can be directed a little by architecture.

I hope that America as a whole, and especially its architects, will become more seriously involved in producing a new architectural culture that would bring the nation to the apex - where it has stood before - and lead the world.

When you look at Japanese traditional architecture, you have to look at Japanese culture and its relationship with nature. You can actually live in a harmonious, close contact with nature - this very unique to Japan.

Black Friday: because only in America people trample each other for sales exactly one day after being thankful for what they already have.

My father used to say that stories are part of the most precious heritage of mankind.

Stories are a communal currency of humanity.

Searching for a lost city is a particularly European obsession.

Time spent in India has a extraordinary effect on one. It acts as a barrier that makes the rest of the world seem unreal.

Tribes With Flags

A lot of our culture and its entertainments encourage us to run away from the reality of the aliveness of our life.

I want to go to the mountains, I want to go to the sea, I want to go to a place where no one knows me, I want to be lost among the people who speak a language I don't understand at all.

The concept of the secular cannot do without the idea of religion.

The most elementary communication is not possible without some degree of conformity to the "conventions" of the symbolic system.

When the Common Era began—by the year one, that is—eight out of every ten humans lived between the Atlantic coast of Europe and the shores of the South China Sea.

what the Muslim world has reified over the course of history is the idea that society should be divided into a men's and a women's realm and that the point of connection between the two should only be in the private arena, so that sexuality can be eliminated as a factor in the public life of the community.

World history is always the story of how "we" got to the here and now, so the shape of the narrative inherently depends on who we mean by "we" and what we mean by "here and now.

By defining society not as an entity made up of individual people but as a collection of cultures--such as white culture, black culture, Hispanic culture--the Left effectively isolates us, whether we like it or not, into special-interest groups. The culture has the identity, eclipsing the individual. We're no longer individuals with unique minds and talents; we're defined instead by the color of our skin, by the country in which we were born, by the religion we practice.

By defining society not as an entity made up of individual people but as a collection of cultures--such as white culture, black culture, Hispanic culture--the Left effectively isolates us, whether we like it or not, into special-interest groups. The culture has the identity, eclipsing the individual. We're no longer individuals with unique minds and talents; we're defined instead by the color of our skin, by the country in which we were born, by the religion we practice.

Irish politics are tribal, incestuous, tangled and furtive, incomprehensible even to many of the people involved.

I love the unspoken dress code.

I didn't know you even could get arrested in Amsterdam

Black history is black horror.

On top of which: everyone in southern Louisiana is Catholic. It's like a humid Ireland with better food.

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