Quotes About Culture

It would be better to never teach them anything at all about God than to teach them the word of God and then bring them up in a society that nullifies the whole thing.

The world had reclaimed its own reality, and, just like after a catastrophe, my culture had ended: I was merely a historical fact. Everything in me had been reclaimed by the beginning of time and by my own beginning. I had passed on to a first, primary plane, I was in the silence of the winds and in the age of tin and copper - at the first age of life.

By the middle of Henry VIII's reign, the white meats — that is, dairy products — were considered common fare and people from all classes would eat meat whenever they could get it.

Put simply, all religion is anthropocentric.

Cea mai primitiv? cultur? este întotdeauna o cultur? adult? ÅŸi, prin însuÅŸi acest lucru, incompatibil? cu manifest?rile infantile care pot fi observate în cea mai înalt? civilizaÅ£ie.

kültürel çeÅŸitlilik olgusu yads?n?r; yaÅŸam?m?z? düzenleyen normlara uymayan ne varsa kültürün d???na, doÄŸaya at?lmas? yeÄŸlenir.

Ama diÄŸer yandan, "herkes kendi al???k olmad??? ÅŸeye barbarl?k der". Oysa ne kadar acayip, sars?c?, hatta baÅŸkald?rt?c? görünürse görünsün, baÄŸlam?na yerleÅŸtirilirse, iyi yönlendirilen bir akl?n aç?klayamayaca?? inanç ya da örf ve âdet yoktur.

BaÅŸka kültürlerden âdet alma bir olgudur; ama al?nan, sebeplerin tamam?n? beraberinde getirmez. Ä°thal edilen al??kanl?k özümsenmez, daha ziyade katalizör rolü oynar; yani sadece varl???yla, ikinci ortamda olas? hâlde zaten mevcut olan benzer bir al??kanl???n tezahürüne yol açar.

Kültürlerin çeÅŸitliliÄŸi insan topluluklar?n?n birbirinden yal?t?lmas?ndan çok, onlar? birleÅŸtiren iliÅŸkilere baÄŸl?d?r.

The more we claim to discriminate between cultures and customs as good and bad, the more completely do we identify ourselves with those we would condemn. By refusing to consider as human those who seem to us to be the most "savage" or "barbarous" of their representatives, we merely adopt one of their own characteristic attitudes. The barbarian is, first and foremost, the man who believes in barbarism.

One must be very naïve or dishonest to imagine that men choose their beliefs independently of their situation.

The first thing we see as we travel round the world is our own filth, thrown into the face of mankind.

I therefore claim to show, not how men think in myths, but how myths operate in men's minds without their being aware of the fact.

Language is a form of human reason, which has its internal logic of which man knows nothing.

went with you or not." "But what would happen if you quit him and stayed here in Marseille?" "I don't care." Aslima began dancing round the room singing a pig-song in her language which is something like this translated: Want to know what's loving sweet, Want to know what's loving big? When two naughty lovers meet And unite in loving pigs.

De allí somos, de donde florece o da fruto cada palabra.

La forma en que nombramos plantas, flores, frutos, aun usando un mismo idioma, devela nuestro origen tanto o más que cualquier tonada. De allí somos, de donde florece o da fruto cada palabra.

It is the White Man who creates the black man. But it is the black man who creates.

Anti-black racism is in the culture. It's in our laws, in our advertisements, in our friendships, in our segregated cities, in our schools, in our Congress, in our scientific experiments, in our language, on the Internet, in our bodies no matter our race, in our communities, and, perhaps most devastatingly, in our justice system.

Zora Neale Hurston's "I feel most colored when I am thrown against a sharp white background.

A friend argues that Americans battle between the "historical self" and the "self self." By this she means you mostly interact as friends with mutual interest and, for the most part, compatible personalities; however, sometimes your historical selves, her white self and your black self, or your white self and her black self, arrive with the full force of your American positioning.

istoria este un abator si in orice excursie turistica sau calatorie instructiva in locurile bogate in istorie intra grosolana si cruda vulgaritate a celor care se bucura se suferinta altora ca de un spectacol.

Today, questioning oneself about Europe means asking oneself how one relates to Germany.

I think we have our sports within our own culture that are huge with baseball, football, basketball, and hockey. Those are the sports in America that we grow up with and soccer isn't really there yet.