Quotes About Culture

And when immorality prevails, O Krishna, the women of the family become corrupted; when women are corrupted, social problems arise.

It is our job to make women unhappy with what they have.

The society of women is the element of good manners.

Many societies have educated their male children on the simple device of teaching them not to be women.

Women want mediocre men, and men are working hard to be as mediocre as possible.

Women dress alike all over the world: they dress to be annoying to other women.

In our civilization, men are afraid that they will not be men enough and women are afraid that they might be considered only women.

She behaves as if she was beautiful. Most American women do. It is the secret of their charm.

The word and works of God is quite clear, that women were made either to be wives or prostitutes.

The eskimos had fifty-two names for snow because it was important to them: there ought to be as many for love

There are two types of people in this world. The people who are in tune with reality and those who watch Love & Hip-hop.

19 th century literature is dead in this country

Under Saddam Hussein, speaking Kurdish was against the law, which effectively made it a dying language - like a dialect of Native American Cherokee, it didn't have much use outside of the tribe. By speaking it, it seemed I was touching the very soul of every man and woman in the room, and they weren't shy about telling me how much it meant to them.

in some cultures, doctors don't ask, "When did you start to feel depressed?" but, "When did you stop dancing?

There has never in human history been a culture where optimism and cynicism existed side by side on such a scale as this, not even ancient Rome.

In French culture, the best way of buying time or getting off the hook entirely in a thorny personal situation is to claim that it's complicated. The French did not invent love, but they did invent romance, so they've had more time than any other culture on earth to refine the nuances of its language.

Mollie Carter would sing the hymns she loved best: "The Land of the Uncloudy Day," "Amazing Grace," or "The Gospel Ship." But she also sang traditional ballads, known as "English" songs, because the form—if not the songs themselves—had crossed the Atlantic with the English and Scotch-Irish who settled the southern mountains.

The Carters won fame—if not fortune—because they could recast the traditional music of rural America for a modern audience. And like their music, the Carters themselves had to negotiate the gap between the insular culture of preindustrial Appalachia and the newly modern America.

Ein Reich ohne Bücher, ist ein verlorenes Reich.

Superstitions are habits rather than beliefs.

Travel is said to be broadening because it makes us realize that our way of doing things is not the only one, that people in other cultures live differently and get by just fine. Insects do that, too, only better.

Even in nonindustrialized societies, girls do not start having children the moment they reach menarche; the average age worldwide for a first baby is nineteen, according to a 2008 article in Science.

I have decided to tell the story of my life as best I can, so that my children can separate the truth from the myths that others have created about me, as myths are created about everyone swept up in the turbulent and distorting maelstrom of celebrity in our culture.

Jamaicans are so unflappable, they might as well be Minnesotans.