Quotes About Culture

The technology which, in our culture, has released urban and even rural man from the quiet before his hearth log has debauched his taste. Man no longer dreams over a book in which a soft voice, a constant companion, observes, exhorts, or sighs with him through the pangs of youth and age. Today he is more likely to sit before a screen and dream the mass dream which comes from outside.

Superior execution is vital to sustaining the success initiated by an innovative service concept. An innovator's service quality is usually more difficult to imitate than its service concept. This is because quality service comes from inspired leadership throughout an organization, a customer-minded corporate culture, excellent service-system design, the effective use of information and technology, and other factors that develop slowly in a company, if at all.

The eye that sees is not a mere physical organ but a means of perception conditioned by the tradition in which its possessor has been reared.    ââ'¬â€RUTH BENEDICT

If I meet God, I hope she's female. I'm touched by the power of women. I'm married to a feminist. And I'm troubled by the fact that women in our culture are congratulated most for losing weight.

Christianity today is so subnormal that if any Christian began to act like a normal New Testament Christian, he would be considered abnormal

You are employed by a suspicious number of douchebags!

Why is ADHD so much more common in the United States today than it was 30 or 40 years ago? And why is it so much more common today in the United States than elsewhere? My answer is "the medicalization of misbehavior.

more than parents. For most of the history of the human race, children have learned culture from the adults. That's why childhood and adolescence have to last so long in our species. But in the United States today, kids no longer learn culture from the grown-ups. American kids today have their own culture, a culture of disrespect, which they learn from their peers and which they teach to their peers.

In every era and in every culture, warnings abound regarding the errors to which that culture is least prone. In puritanical eras, pastors preach about the dangers of indulging the flesh. In indulgent eras, TV talk show hosts warn about the dangers of puritanism. In an era of "walk tall" and "stand proud," it takes courage to teach humility. And it won't earn you many friends.

Anyone can be a barbarian; it requires a terrible effort to remain a civilized man.

All of Sicily is a dimension of the imagination.

Lei è fascista? - Ma no, tutt'altro. - Non si offenda: lo siamo un po' tutti.

Che popolo», pensò con un disprezzo venato di gelosia: e che in qualunque posto del mondo, là dove l'orlo di una gonna saliva di qualche centimetro sul ginocchio, nel raggio di trenta metri c'era sicuramente un siciliano, almeno uno, a spiare il fenomeno.

La Sicilia è tutta una dimensione fantastica: e come ci si può star dentro senza fantasia?

Che resta di una mostra, se non il catalogo?

La Sicilia è tutta una fantastica dimensione: e come ci si può star dentro senza fantasia?

Maybe the whole of italy is becoming a sort of Sicily.

Francois I had commanded that the French speak one tongue, and the Langue d'oil triumphed over the Langue d'oc.

The Italian Renaissance was as much an age of culture and learning as of violence and deceit.

1. The Culture Shock of Preaching 1 2. Aiming toward Contextual Preaching 31 3. Exegeting the Congregation 56 4. Preaching as Local Theology 91 5. Preaching as Folk Art

While women once acquired relationship skills to "hook," "snare," or "catch" a husband who would provide access to economic security and social status, the position of contemporary women has not changed that radically. Much of our success still depends on our attunement to "male culture," our ability to please men, and our readiness to conform to the masculine values of our institutions.

Daniel Maclise (whose 1839 oil of Dickens hangs today at the National Portrait Gallery).

Paris was the cross-roads of the world.

When people say they come from the country, they say it abjectly, apologetically. Unlike Londoners, Tokyoites do not drive out to the country at the weekend or yearn for a country cottage. Everyone, if they had the chance, would live in Tokyo. Four hours to the next train, while inconceivable in Tokyo, was only to be expected of inaka.