Quotes About Culture

A nation or civilization that continues to produce soft-minded men purchases its own spiritual death on the installment plan.

I'm a fan of homeopathy, acupuncture and spiritual healing. In Australia, this is not weird, but when I arrived in the U.K., everyone thought I was a freak.

That is why we profess a spiritual kinship with primitive and archaic art.

I was raised into the Romanian Orthodox culture by my parents, and most notably my mother, who is a profoundly religious and spiritual woman.

After the spiritual powers, there is no thing in the world more unconquerable than the spirit of nationality. The spirit of nationality in Ireland will persist even though the mightiest of material powers be its neighbor.

Aartis and spiritual songs never get dated.

When asked if I consider myself Buddhist, the answer is, Not really. But it's more my religion than any other because I was brought up with it in an intellectual and spiritual environment. I don't practice or preach it, however.

It depends on how it is done but what we are drifting into, which is that people grow up without any sense of a spiritual dimension to life, is just impoverishing.

We are, in many respects, in a moral and spiritual free-fall in our country, and we are paying a terrible price.

Cultures are never merely intellectual constructs. They take form through the collective intelligence and memory, through a commonly held psychology and emotions, through spiritual and artistic communion.

While in some countries there's a feeling that literature must stay away from religion, this is not so in India - in the Indian way, literature is just another means to find a more spiritual life, to find our way to God.

I'm Jewish, not Catholic, but I'm a spiritual person.

I'm not a religious person; I'm more of a spiritual person, so I follow the rules of the Bible that coordinate with and connect with the Hebrew culture.

I'm a very spiritual person, and proud of my Mormon roots.

One of the things that I have admired about India is the spiritualism of the people.

I do believe in the viability of Indian spiritualism.

When I first came to Harvard, I thought to myself, 'What kind of an Indian am I?' because I did not grow up on a reservation. But being an Indian is a combination of things. It's your blood. It's your spirituality. And it's fighting for the Indian people.

I have an interest in spirituality, and it opens up so many different areas of Indian life.

A person like me who has grown up in a mixed culture ought to be spiritual. My mother is a Catholic, my father is a Muslim, and my wife is a Hindu. Personally, I feel spirituality is about being clear-hearted. It involves a sense of connection with the divine.

Los Angeles has been known as the center of creativity but has often been equally known for the absence of spirituality.

Politics are wack - it's mostly about the characters instead of the issues, like how religion is about religion instead of spirituality.

In a lot of Indian societies, spirituality has been lost, I think it's still the best way of looking at the world for Indians - better than any organized religion in this country.

India's obsession with food and its cultural importance in nourishing not just the body, but community and spirituality too, goes some way to explaining why Indian home cooking is hard to beat.

The fact that I am not Jewish by religion does not prevent me from connecting to the Jewish nation's spirituality.