Quotes About Culture

The Cameroonian soul is genuine. It is noble, and it embodies humanism.

Pay attention to proverbs.

If you take society's definition of knowing oneself, you will become lost in the many translations.

You can take the Indian out of the family, but you cannot take the family out of the Indian.

In general, poor is polite and rich is rude.

Travel teaches as much as a teacher.

The love for literature is the key to knowledge.

Nowadays, the concept of love is greatly trampled because there is too much permissibility.

The Message of Mohammad is not a set of metaphysical phenomena. It is a complete civilization.

We are civilized animals doing uncivilized things.

Sometimes translation stops you understanding.

Modern society drinks in streams of information while dying of wisdom thirst.

The author says his young son, adopted from South Korea, occasionally burps and says thank you but otherwise is doing all right.

Understanding and knowledge are completely different sensations in the realm of Truth than they are in the realm of society.

Quoting Shakespeare doesn't make you an intellectual. It just makes you a fan of Shakespeare.

Only a well-rounded intellect, a spirit nourished in the eternal sources of intelligence and culture, of justice and wisdom, is a safeguard against both indifference and skepticism.

[Turkish women] had lived free of the veil for 5,000 years, and had been covered only in the last 600 years.

A Man who is Shy and Modest, is An Amazing Character, but a Women who is Shy and Modest is Beyond Amazing.

If you wish to know how civilized a culture is, look at how they treat it's women.

I will have my voice: Indian, Spanish, white. I will have my serpent's tongue - my woman's voice, my sexual voice, my poet's voice. I will overcome the tradition of silence.

Indian men are still used to the traditional role given to women; they want intelligent girls for company but not to marry... they have yet to taste and relish the company of mature women.

I cannot praise the common superfluity which women now use in their apparel.

That problem has been going on since men and women and their children moved from the plains and into caves. How many times have you heard Howard Cunningham talking to Marian about shopping? Too many.

People think of Latina women as being fiery and fierce, which is usually true. But I think the quality that so many Latinas possess is strength. I'm very proud to have Latin blood.