Quotes About Culture

The famed library of Montserrat

Meaning that history is always written by the winners. When two cultures clash, the loser is obliterated, and the winner writes the history books—books which glorify their own cause and disparage the conquered foe. As Napoleon once said, 'What is history, but a fable agreed upon?' Ã¢â'¬Â He smiled. "By its very nature, history is always a one-sided account." Sophie had never thought of it that way.

Cuando se produce un choque entre dos culturas, el perdedor es erradicado y el vencedor escribe los libros de historia, libros que cantan las glorias de su causa y denigran al enemigo conquistado.

From out of the brain flowed a stream of religious images—God reaching out to infuse Adam with life, Prometheus crafting a primordial human out of mud, Brahma creating humans from different parts of his own body, an African god parting the clouds and lowering two humans to earth, a Norse god fashioning a man and a woman out of driftwood.

La religión es como un idioma o un vestido. Gravitamos alrededor de las prácticas en las que hemos sido educados. Al final, sin embargo, todos proclamamos lo mismo; que la vida tiene sentido, que nos sentimos agradecidos por el poder que nos ha creado.

el autosacrificio de un hombre joven para redimir los pecados de su pueblo aparece en la tradición de Quetzalcóatl

Christians like faces; Muslims like words.

La práctica de «comerse a dios», es decir, la Sagrada Comunión, proviene en cambio de los aztecas. Ni

The goal of tattooing was never beauty. The goal was change. From the scarified Nubian priests of 2000 B.C., to the tattooed acolytes of the Cybele cult of ancient Rome, to the moko scars of the modern Maori, humans have tattooed themselves as a way of offering up their bodies in partial sacrifice, enduring the physical pain of embellishment and emerging changed beings. Despite

He thought if he could convince people to revere the natural universe and the laws of physics that created us, then every culture would celebrate the same Creation story rather than go to war over which of their antique myths was most accurate.

it is a messy process for a culture to abandon its deities. Spiritual beliefs are etched deeply on our psyches at a young age by those we love and trust most—our parents, our teachers, our religious leaders. Therefore, any religious shifts occur over generations, and not without great angst, and often bloodshed.

Anthropological data clearly showed that cultures practicing religions historically had outlived nonreligious cultures.

La Chiesa di Santa Margherita

If we want to be the best company for our customers and investors, we must first be the best company for our employees.

A proper training and management culture will cultivate the leadership qualities desired.

They had the first hospital in America. The first library and zoo. They had the first newspaper, the first TV and radio broadcasts. Pennsylvania had the first capital of the United States. And most importantly, the banana split was invented here!

the conventions of language reveal the ways we see the world.

Human art, Mahnmut knew, simply transcended human beings.

Religion and ethics were not always - or even frequently - mutually compatible. The demands of religious absolutism or fundamentalism or rampaging relativism often deflected the worst aspects of contemporary culture or prejudices rather than a system which both man and God could live under with a sense of real justice.

Forcing school children to recite a national pledge doesn't sound very American to me," said James. "No," agreed Holmes. "It sounds German. Very German.

But it sold three billion Ã¢â'¬Â¦Ã¢â'¬Â "Look," said Tyrena. "In twentieth-century Old Earth, a fast food chain took dead cow meat, fried it in grease, added carcinogens, wrapped it in petroleum-based foam, and sold nine hundred billion units. Human beings. Go figure.

takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature

Aenea nodded. "It's wonderful to preserve tradition, but a healthy organism evolves Ã¢â'¬Â¦ culturally and physically.

The first Dying Earth sold three billion copies," I said. "Pilgrim's Progress," she said. "Mein Kampf. Once in a century. Maybe less." "But it sold three billion Ã¢â'¬Â¦Ã¢â'¬Â "Look," said Tyrena. "In twentieth-century Old Earth, a fast food chain took dead cow meat, fried it in grease, added carcinogens, wrapped it in petroleum-based foam, and sold nine hundred billion units. Human beings. Go figure.