Quotes About Culture

for he felt moved by forces that weren't necessarily visible or easily explainable. Coming to Burma had only amplified those leanings. "There are ways of knowing things quite certainly but not by reason," he would write, "and in the East both the wise and the simple accept this.

karoshi (death by overwork).

People in industrialized nations used to be called "citizens." Now we are "consumers"—which means (according to the dictionary definition of "consume") people who "use up," "waste," "destroy," and "squander.

Americans used to be 'citizens.' Now we are 'consumers.

Alexandros's baiting and my experience at the Jewish temple opened my eyes to the fact that most men thought women inferior. After all, I had grown up under the shadow of the most powerful woman in the world. I saw great men prostrate themselves at her feet. I worshipped at the altar of the greatest Goddess of All, Isis.

Nogle ting er bedre i Sverige end i Danmark. De har bedre naboer.

Migration is the story of my body

England has two books, one which she has made and one which has made her: Shakespeare and the Bible.

They have over-cultivated national rhetoric [. . .] they will have to undertake something.

I looked at the girls and sighed. Poor creatures, I said to myself, you also will end up in his jump heap. Lawrence isn't one to be caught by partygoers. When he's had his fill of your sort, he will go home to his village and dig out a farm girl, like a cocoyam, a girl who will produce his kids while he continues to enjoy his freedom.

The culture's reverence for nature accentuates Kyoto's innate beauty. Designs on fabric, pottery, lacquer, and folding screens depict swirling water, budding branches, and birds in flight. Delicate woodcuts and scrolls celebrate the moonlight, rain, and snow. Elegant restaurant dishes arrive with edible garnishes of seasonal flora.

Organizational culture begins in HR. This means to hire for attitude and train for skill.

To me India is a land of beauty and generosity, of traditional hospitality and the acceptance of many cultures.

I want the Arabic Granada, that which is art, which is all that seems to me beauty and emotion

Her beauty cannot be measured with standards of a colonized mind

Beauty has no obvious use; nor is there any clear cultural necessity for it. Yet civilization could not do without it.

Beauty and seriousness are perhaps the most shocking tactics left to artists these days.

People from different cultures have different definitions for beauty. Isn't that sad to judge others with our standards... rather than appreciate them?

Beauty, like truth, is relative to the time when one lives and to the individual who can grasp it.

People have never looked so ugly as they do today. We just consume far too much.

Our language is primarily for expressing human goodness and beauty.

It seems reasonable to expect that beauty will emerge from a fusion of the individual character and culture of the potter,with the nature of his materials.

You can't eat beauty. It doesn't feed you.

We live in a beauty-obsessed culture, which on one hand is absolutely fabulous, but on the flip side, is also dangerously extreme.