Quotes About Culture

Although we still live in an uncertain and violent world, it is important for us to be moving in the direction of a culture of love, wisdom, truth, justice and virtue envisaged by Peter Deunov.

The goyim are a curious people," Malpesh once said to me, before he had discovered who and what I was. "Not curious that they want to know things," he clarified, "curious that they don't.

January 20, 2009, was also the first time a newly elected president used the occasion sometimes called a secular sermon to the nation to give voice to the diversity of religious life among its people. "We are a nation of Christians and Muslims," Obama said, "Jews and Hindus, and nonbelievers. We are shaped by every language and culture, drawn from every end of this Earth.

The '60s were an amazing time.

The English murder their meat twice: once when they shoot it, again when they cook it. 'Drôle, n'est-ce pas'?

We had a crisp, oily salad and slices of pink country sausages, an aioli of snails and cod and hard-boiled eggs with garlic mayonnaise, creamy cheese from Fontvielle, and a homemade tart. It was the kind of meal that the French take for granted and tourists remember for years.

Singapore had taken a much more, well, Singaporean approach to the problem of hippies than the Malaysians had. They'd let them in, but only if they got a haircut.

We measure success and reward performance without knowing how governance and culture impact individuals and teams.

minds. As a wise woman wrote "Language as an articulation of reality is more primordial than strategy, structure, or culture."[31]

My ability to help my clients was limited by our narrow focus. This was partly my fault for defining myself as a specialist, but I eventually came to see that this problem of reductionism is endemic to our culture.

My mom is a very warm, typical sort of Jewish-mother type. And my dad has a somewhat, um, different personality.

The narrow range of his reading is striking. Up to the spring and summer of 1924 he listed just over 200 books. Only a handful of these came from outside his own culture.

I started off in England and very few people knew I was Australian. I mean, the clues were in the poems, but they didn't read them very carefully, and so for years and years I was considered completely part of the English poetry scene.

We delude ourselves that we want to implant honesty in our children: what we really want is to imbue them with our particular kind of dishonesty, with our culture's dishonesty. —Sidney Harris

What is the Spanish word for wife? Esposa. What is the Spanish word for handcuffs? Esposas. That's not a coincidence.

Leaders create growth trajectories by creating chains from five dimensions of growth: customer group (current or new), product (built or acquired), geography (current or new), capabilities (current or new), and culture (current or new).

Pop culture used to be like LSD – different, eye-opening and reasonably dangerous. It's now like crack – isolating, wasteful and with no redeeming qualities whatsoever.

By the very act of refusing to succumb to the enormous pressure of Western culture around us, we, too, serve as a sign of a free people. We have been called out of a world trying to prove its worth and value by what it does or possesses. We are deeply loved by God for who we are, not for what we do.

even the worst and most painful family experiences are part of our total identity. God had a plan in placing us in our particular families and cultures. And the more we know about our families, the more we know about ourselves—and the more freedom we have to make decisions how we want to live. We can say: "This is what I want to keep. This is what I do not want to bring with me to the next generation.

In a culture as frenetic and inattentive as ours, a "slowed down" Christian who is a contemplative presence to God and others is an extraordinary gift.

You would think the church and its leaders would be all for healthy leadership and whatever it takes to achieve it. But the truth is that there are parts of church leadership culture that actually work hard against it.

In Germany, it seems, time doesn't heal wounds; it kills the sensation of pain.

Sembra che in Germania il tempo non guarisca le ferite, ma uccida il dolore.

If the Germans still have a fatherland, it survives mostly in the mother tongue; and if it is true that land comes from our father and language from our mother, then our maternal heritage has proven the stronger