Quotes About Culture

There is a Japanese belief that business is temporal, whereas relationships are eternal.

A genuine culture built on fundamentals like trust and aimed at the goal of business for good is more than enough, but only if it genuinely outweighs the traditional business motives of driving revenue, growth, and profit.

But let me be clear: What Indiana ultimately showed me is that no one person is in charge of the moral compass of a business. The phone calls and messages from my employees proved that if the leadership won't act, they'll have to face the bayonets poking up from below. Gone are the days when companies can recruit and retain top talent without upholding a commitment to values.

Trust has to be your highest value in your company. And if it's not, something bad is going to happen.

In a word, a historical phenomenon can never be understood apart from its moment in time. This is true of ever evolutionary stage, our own and all others. As the old Arab proverb has it: 'Men resemble their times more than they do their fathers.

The music we listen to, the books we read, the television programs we watch, all communicate to us a philosophy of life.

Television is an excellent system when one has nothing to lose, as in the case with a nomadic and rootless country like the United States, but in Europe the affect of television is that of a bulldozer which reduces culture to the lowest possible denominator

Buying is an activity understood by economists. Shopping is a phenomenon of interest to anthropologists and sociologists.

Easy issues are at the heart of what sociologist James Davison Hunter (119911) forecast as the emerging polarization of American politics. In Culture Wars: The Struggle to Define America, which is often cited as the impetus for Pat Buchanan's fiery speech at the 1199z Republican National Convention and the dawn of polarized politics, he suggests that the emergence of new social issues, such as abortion, the death penalty, and gay rights, make polarization inevitable.

It amazes me that we are all on Twitter and Facebook. By "we" I mean adults. We're adults, right? But emotionally we're a culture of seven-year-olds. Have you ever had that moment when are you updating your status and you realize that every status update is just a variation on a single request: "Would someone please acknowledge me?

There's a fine line between cultural criticism and bitterness.

is often described as the finest illustrated manuscript of the entire Anglo-Saxon era.

such as charters and law codes, but never employed for great works of literature, theology or philosophy,

after 410, but that within a generation the villas and towns of Roman Britain had been almost completely abandoned.

In English Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday are named after the Germanic gods Tiw, Woden, Thunor and Frig.

But in Britain, as we've seen, civic life had collapsed completely in the early fifth century

elements of Roman social organization may have been adopted by the Saxons

and in British culture they saw nothing they wished to emulate.

Remarkably, this Anglo-Saxon Chronicle (as it was later known) was written not in Latin, as was the practice in virtually every other literate corner of Europe, but in the everyday language that people spoke. By the end of the tenth century, this language had a name for the new state: it was 'the land of the Angles', Engla lond.4

Even when the libraries had been full of books,

Æthelwulf was about fifty years old, Judith only twelve

It was not only the Saxon's ferocity and fearlessness that perturbed his opponents, but his paganism.

life in Britain before the arrival of the Romans was not necessarily any nicer,

A visitor in the seventh century could still see triumphal arches, baths, palaces, theatres, bridges, aqueducts and fountains,