Quotes About Culture

If parents wish to preserve childhood for their own children, they must conceive of parenting as an act of rebellion against culture

The thing that impresses me most about America is the way parents obey their children.

The French aren't perfect, but they have some parenting secrets that really do work.

Homeland of patience, land of the Russian people.

The fruit tasted foreign but indigenous, like sunlight a tree had changed through patience.

Patience is a virtue, and Americans have it in short supply.

For a writer only one form of patriotism exists: his attitude toward language.

What is patriotism but the love of the food one ate as a child?

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

By ' patriotism ' I mean devotion to a particular place and a particular way of life , which one believes to be the best in the world but has no wish to force on other people.

It's not always clear where a healthy patriotism shades into a dangerous nationalism.

America is a new country, and maybe patriotism helps Americans create unity, since it is a melting pot. But nationalism in Europe has a strong history, as you may know.

I am Roman, alas, because Horace is Roman.

Patriotism is a joke in the UK.

Belgium is the best remedy against patriotism.

The Swiss are not a people so much as a neat clean quite solvent business.

You can take a my body out of Nepal but you can never take my soul and Heart from a Nepal .

We live in a world where we have to hide to make love, while violence is practiced in broad daylight.

The purpose of anthropology is to make the world safe for human differences.

Where there is Peace, there is Culture; Where there is Culture, there is Peace.

In Switzerland they had brotherly love, five hundred years of democracy and peace, and what did they produce? The cuckoo clock!

The diffusion of a universalist culture and of a pedagogy of peace appears more than ever to be the path that we must follow for the salvation of all nations on earth.

The arts can do more to sustain the peace than all the wars, the armaments, and the threats and warnings of politicians.

Peace cultures thrive on and are nourished by visions of how things might be, in a world where sharing and caring are part of the accepted lifeways for everyone.