Quotes About Culture

We live in an age of globalisation, but also one of identity politics. It is as if our world is expanding and contracting at the same time.

I choose to live at a pace that reflects God's wisdom more than cultural norms.

My interest in drawing has died down here in England, but maybe I'll be in the mood again some day or other. Right now I am doing a great deal of reading

The American mind, unlike the English, is not formed by books, but, as Carl Sandburg once said to me, by newspapers and the Bible.

It used to be called the Lord's Day, now it is the weekend and if we group all holidays on weekends the devil will have scored another move against Sunday worship.

This book focuses on science and development as patriarchal projects not as a denial of other sources of patriarchy, such as religion, but because they are thought to be class, culture, and gender neutral.

Hares stood out as strange and unpredictable beings, much like the gods themselves; their habit of darting around as ghostly figures of the night – precisely the time when the spirit world would be most feared – merely added to their mystery while their violent "boxing" each spring earned them a special resonance in the warrior culture of Britain.

I have an historical, a cultural, and a moral obligation to give back something to my country. So I became a teacher.

Alexandra Fedorovna pronounced Russian words with a heavy accent, and it was noticebale that speaking Russian was hard for her ...[she] pronounced each phrase with difficulty, and with a German accent — just like a foreigner who had learned the Russian language from books, and not from practice.

I know many people will say, "What kind of God orders you to do everything you do? You are deceiving us. You are a primitive man, quite uncivilized." I know all these objections. I will answer them simply. I am man's firstborn, with God's culture and not an animal's.

You can tell a lot about a society by what it fears.

Anticarb sentiment in the endurance sports community is an ideological spillover from the weight-loss diet culture.

English lecturers... who treat the Americans as a race of barbarians without any history should be taken for a tour round Washington before they are permitted to speak!

The Ukrainian community is tight-knit by nature.

Whenever you go on a trip to visit foreign lands or distant places, remember that they are all someone's home and backyard.

Create an environment where champions are inevitable.

If the Core Values are the soul of the organization, the core Purpose (some call it "mission") gives it heart.

Call it Talent Development, Human Relations, People Support, or Head of People Experiences — whatever term fits your culture — choose to call this function anything but Human Resources.

Koire (Rosa) 'Agenda 21 is about destroying independence, culture, society, economy and human lives.

In most parts of the world people eat because they will die if they don't. The French, in contrast, live to eat. Many people take little or no pleasure from the food they consume. The French extract every possible pleasure from eating.

Spider names look silly. But this ''Accord'' group is a young culture. Their names are still mostly meaningful in their daily language.

Most civilizations had more fiction than they did real history.

Military parades roll down the Champs-Elysees, but pedestrians stroll up ["East Meets West on the Champs-Elysees," Metropolis , March 2006, p73]

Como aquel que no puede decir lo que quiere enterrado al fondo de su raza.