Quotes About Culture

If you don't know history, then you don't know anything. You are a leaf that doesn't know it is part of a tree. " ?Michael Crichton

It is my opinion that art lost its basic creative drive the moment it was separated from worship. It severed an umbilical cord and now lives its own sterile life, genetaring and degenerating itself.

we accept the obvious. In addition to our intellectual capabilities, we possess psychic attributes whose major apparent functions extend our self-preserving capabilities overall. Yet (and here is my complaint again), our culture has elected to trust only in intellect and its admittedly

Indeed, most people are culturally discouraged from making their own reality treks into reality constructing.

IN THE EIGHTH DECADE of the twentieth century, a man named Elmer Pendell published a small book entitled WHY CIVILIZATIONS SELF-DESTRUCT (1977).

This can be explained in part by understanding and accepting the historical fact that almost all past cultures, however seen as great, otherwise, were fundamentally based on massive broadband slavery, serfdom, and various other under-classes whose principal function was to be in servitude to the upper overlords. Such was certainly the case, for example, in ancient Egyptian, Sumerian, Babylonian, Assyrian, Roman, Chinese, and most old Nordic cultures, etc.

Since this is Russia, such things are to be expected, though of course, neither he nor anyone else expected it.

Ikea people do not drive flashy cars or stay at luxury hotels.

What separates or unites people is not their language, their laws, their customs, their principles, but the way they hold their knife and fork.

Les gens qui ont besoin de plus qu une valise ne sont pas de vrais voyageurs, ce sont des touristes.

for music alone can abolish differences of language or culture between two people and invoke something indestructible within them.

Culture is the heart of an organization. Without a heart, there is no pulse. Therefore, take care of PEOPLE, and MISSION will be innovatively VICTORIOUS. BG Irene M. Zoppi

A whole new life at fifty, all because I had become entranced with both the Turkish culture and with Kazim—who one friend called a careening festival of a human being and another called an alcoholic Kurdish carpet salesman. I called him a catalyst.

Looking back upon millennia of history, it appears clear that no race or culture has monopoly on wartime cruelty. The veneer of civilization seems to be exceedingly thin – one that can be easily stripped away, especially by the stresses of war.

Looking back upon millennia of history, it appears clear that no race or culture has a monopoly on wartime cruelty. The veneer of civilization seems to be exceedingly thin—one that can be easily stripped away, especially by the stresses of war.

I think being a woman is like being Irish... Everyone says you're important and nice, but you take second place all the time.

I think being a woman is like being Irish... Everyone says you're important and nice, but you take second place all the time.

The most essential and fundamental aspect of culture is the study of literature, since this is an education in how to picture and understand human situations.

Many an Irish property was increased by the lace of a daughter's petticoat.

An Irishman is never drunk as long as he can hold onto one blade of grass to keep from falling off the earth.

If you're enough lucky to be Irish, you're lucky enough!

My German Question: Growing Up in Nazi Berlin, Peter Gay Nazi Berlin

What can you say about a society that says that God is dead and Elvis is alive?

What can you say about a society that says God is dead and Elvis is alive?