Quotes About Culture

It struck her that the difference between men and women is the rock on which civilization will split before it can reach any goal that could justify its expenditure of effort.

It's funny – you Irish are so like the Serbs.

Everyone is perfect, yet none of us feels that way because our culture teaches us to hate and criticize ourselves.

Und so wie meine bloße Existenz mich einst weitergetragen und mir die Kraft gegeben hatte, extreme Bergtouren zu wagen, begann ich jetzt wieder zu träumen von einem Gesamtkunstwerk. Zuletzt wieder im Alleingang. Als wäre ich dazu bestimmt vorauszugehen, den Weg festzulegen, die Welt neu zu erfinden. So habe ich einst die Ziele in der Wildnis vorgegeben. Jetzt wurde eine kulturelle Aufgabe daraus.

McWhorter claims that low black educational achievements are not the result of racism but of an attitude within the black community that academic achievement is a white thing and that blacks must reject such efforts in order to stay culturally black.

Judea is, for all intents and purposes, a temple-state.

Egyptians believed that the Pharaoh would be resurrected, but they did not accept the resurrection of the mases

Herod was not just the emperor's client-king. He was a close and personal friend, a loyal citizen of the Republic who wanted more than to emulate Rome; he wanted to remake it in the sands of Judea. He instituted a forced Hellenization program upon the Jews, bringing gymnasia, Greek amphitheaters, and Roman baths to Jerusalem. He made Greek the language of his court and minted coins bearing Greek letters and paga

Unlike their brethren in the Holy Land, Diaspora Jews spoke Greek, not Aramaic: Greek was the language of their thought process, the language of their worship.

manism (ancestor cults)—but it was not as concerned

Sie wissen, dass sich dort draußen kein Mensch für Literatur interessiert und sie die letzten Hüter einer glorreichen, in die Krise geratenen Tradition sind.

By giving up or sharing control of small, nettlesome issues like dress codes, and of graver matters like factory closings and security, management creates a culture of self-government that has more resilience than any my-way-or-the-highway dictatorship.

This is why the culture that arises from daily acts takes the place of corporate policies. Instead of writing ourselves down in a set of rules, we evolve slowly based on what we do.

Our constitution is of course not written; it just conceptually encompasses the basic values and culture that are currently in place (and that change with time).

No matter how long he lived in the South, Zemurray could never rise above street Spanish overlaid by his American accent, overlaid by his Russian accent. He was all overlay—identity stacked on identity, life stacked on

No matter how long he lived in the South, Zemurray could never rise above street Spanish overlaid by his American accent, overlaid by his Russian accent. He was all overlay—identity stacked on identity, life stacked on life.

Two thousand years ago, five thousand, they didn't have a word for imagination, and faith was the best they could come up with for a pretty solemn bunch of followers.

Two things I do value a lot, intimacy and the capacity for joy, didn't seem to be on anyone else s list. I felt like the stranger in a strange land, and decided I'd better not marry the natives.

In the United States Christmas has become the rape of an idea.

To my mind, nothing is as important as good writing, because in literature, the walls between people and cultures are broken down, and the things that plague us most–suspicion and fear of the other, and the tendency to see whole groups of people as objects, as monoliths of one cultural stereotype or another–are defeated.

The cat's purring was the motor that ran the Japanese woman's dreaming.

Women are born; men must be made.

If you are religious at all it is overwhelmingly probable that your religion is that of your parents. If you were born in Arkansas and you think Christianity is true and Islam false, knowing full well that you would think the opposite if you had been born in Afghanistan, you are the victim of childhood indoctrination.

Though the details differ across the world, no known culture lacks some version of the time-consuming, wealth consuming, hostility provoking rituals, the anti-factual, counter-productive fantasies of religion.