Quotes About Culture

The less gender-polarized the culture, the lower the degree of violence and the greater the degree of democracy.

She acquired a lifetime aversion to the phrases bless your heart and poor dears.

The more polarized the gender roles, the more violent the society. The less polarized the gender roles, the more peaceful the society.

Whether by dowry murders in India, honor killings in Egypt, or domestic violence in the United States, records show that women are most likely to be beaten or killed at home and by men they know. Statistically speaking, home is an even more dangerous place for woman than the road. Perhaps the most revolutionary act for a woman will be a self willed journey-and to be welcomed when she comes home.

This new diversity will give us a better understanding of the world and enrich our cultural choices, yet

In Indian Country," he says, "we have a different sense of time. I'm learning and you're learning—and more will.

This new diversity will give us a better understanding of the world and enrich our cultural choices, yet there are people whose sense of identity depends on the old hierarchy. It may just be their fear and guilt talking: What if I am treated as I have treated others? But with all the power and money that is behind it, this backlash could imprison us in a hierarchy all over again. As

I soon learned there was a very Indian habit of asking personal questions. It

when God is depicted only as a white man, only white men seem godly. They

Though patriarchal cultures and religions have made hierarchy seem inevitable, human for 95 percent of history have been more likely to see the circle as our paradigm.

Thinking about our schooling in different decades and parts of the country, all three of us in that kitchen discover that we were taught more about ancient Greece and Rome than about the history of the land we live on. We learned about the pyramid builders of Egypt but not the pyramid builders of the Mississippi River.

Airline passengers usually look like where they're going—business suits to Washington, D.C., jeans to L.A.

Decolonial feminism arrives at a similar conclusion that gender is not an innocent concept. This school of thought points to gender as a colonial introduction. As a concept gender did not exist among indigenous and black people; more fluid categorisations prevailed

We can, as Martha Nussbaum (2010) suggests, benefit from the enlarged and varied imagination that literature, films, and other cultural products afford us to start to occupy different positionings than we usually occupy.

Our culture has created a sense of urgency and expectation that's hard to shake.

I call the Classical what is healthy and the Romantic what is sick. - Goethe in 1829

Patriotism ruins history.

O verdadeiro analfabetismo é a falta de curiosidade; a curiosidade é a essência da cultura.

Above all, this country is our own. Nobody has to get up in the morning and worry what his neighbors think of him. Being a Jew is no problem here.

TV — a clever contraction derived from the words Terrible Vaudeville.

If we could follow the slogan that says,"Turn off the TV and open a good book" we would do something of substance for a future generation.

Books represent the accumulated workings of the human mind, the endless treasures of man's thoughts.

Sloppy language and sloppy ways go together. Those who are truly educated have learned more than the sciences, the humanities, law, engineering, and the arts. They carry with them a certain polish that marks them as loving the better qualities of life, a culture that adds luster to the mundane world of which they are apart, a patina that puts a quiet glow on what otherwise might be base metal.

Because the Bible is God's Word, it has eternal relevance; it speaks to all humankind, in every age and in every culture.