Quotes About Culture

THE PUZZLE of cannibalism concerns the socially sanctioned con­ sumption of human flesh when other foods are available.

The only thing different about the Aztecs is that the meat was human meat.

Por naturaleza, las mujeres poseen una capacidad para disfrutar del sexo con una variedad de hombres, como mínimo, idéntica al interés de éstos por tener experiencias sexuales con una variedad de mujeres.

Hindus and Westerners alike see in the meat-eating taboos of India a triumph of morals over appetite. This is a dangerous misrepresentation of cultural processes. Hindu vegetarianism was a victory not of spirit over matter but of reproductive over productive forces.

Strictly speaking, human flesh itself contains the highest-qual­ ity protein that one can eat.

Los hombres nunca han tenido que poner en un plato de la balanza el placer sexual y en el otro la dolorosa prueba en que culmina el embarazo.

Durante miles de años, los varones han visto a las mujeres no como éstas podían ser, sino exclusivamente como ellos querían que fueran.

Puesto que la mayoría de la gente no tiene que enfrentarse a tales decisiones para ganarse el sustento, las visiones animistas del mundo siguen siendo más atrayentes que las nociones contrarias a ella, incluso en civilizaciones urbanas altamente tecnificadas.

Cuando un pueblo empieza a creer que el color de su piel o la forma de la nariz garantizan su futura preeminencia, están generalmente contribuyendo a cavar su propia tumba.

In view of the frequent occurrence of modern domestic groups that do not consist of, or contain, an exclusive pair-bonded father and mother, I cannot see why anyone should insist that our ancestors were reared in monogamous nuclear families and that pair-bonding is more natural than other arrangements.

Las explicaciones de los estilos de vida son como las patatas fritas. La gente insiste en comérselas hasta acabar con toda la bolsa.

Unfortunately, it makes as little sense to offer this kind of explanation as to say that we have become too "civilized " to eat insects or horses.

Aztecs had not only failed to repress the eating of enemy dead, they were practicing a state-sponsored form of human sacrifice and cannibalism on a scale never rivaled before or since.

Imagine what it would be like if TV actually were good. It would be the end of everything we know.

Relinquishing God's design for womanhood has devastating effects on the home, church, and culture. This battle for biblical womanhood is

Ignorance and a narrow education lay the foundation of vice, and imitation and custom rear it up.

Roman culture was marked by a reluctance ever entirely to discard its past practices, tending instead to preserve all kinds of 'fossils' – in religious rituals or politics, or whatever – even when their original significance had been lost.

But my basic premise is that our mental, cultural template for a powerful person remains resolutely male. If we close our eyes and try to conjure up the image of a president or – to move into the knowledge economy – a professor, what most of us see is not a woman.

How have we learned to look at those women who exercise power, or who try to? What are the cultural underpinnings of misogyny in politics or the workplace, and its forms (what kind of misogyny, aimed at what or whom, using what words or images, and with what effects)? How and why do the conventional definitions of 'power' (or for that matter of 'knowledge', 'expertise' and 'authority') that we carry round in our heads exclude women?

When we look, for example, at the Parthenon for the first time, we look at it already knowing that generations of architects chose precisely that style of building for the museums, town-halls, and banks of most of our major cities.

Nuestro modelo cultural y mental de persona poderosa sigue siendo irrevocablemente masculino

In Sallust's view, the moral fibre of Roman culture had been destroyed by the city's success and by the wealth, greed and lust for power that had followed its conquest of the Mediterranean and the crushing of all its serious rivals. The crucial moment came eighty-three years before the war against Catiline, when in 146 BCE Roman armies finally destroyed Carthage, Hannibal's home base on the north coast of Africa.

Viajar por el imperio no solo significaba atravesar zonas horarias tal como lo entendemos nosotros, sino moverse entre formas completamente distintas de calcular las fechas o las horas del día (es un auténtico misterio comprender cómo manejaban la agenda).

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