Quotes About Culture

No doubt the elders of prehistoric tribes thought the younger generation's cave paintings were not up to the standard they had set.

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Imagining human culture from the perspective of a non-human species can be salutary.

Take what you see on TV, mix in a guy who's turned 30 and still doesn't have a job, throw in some Uncle Remus stories and add a few flies in amber and you have America.

I always say that "half of who you are is other people," meaning that the beliefs, attitudes, and biases of the people around you gradually become your own.

We are lucidly aware that achieving through mere physical force establishes the rules of a game from which there is no escape. When one grants oneself the moral justification to use force, one cannot logically deny it in one's enemies, for all moralities are relative. The dissimilarity between different human cultures alone suggests that one cannot establish universal goods and evils.

Uncle sipped some tea. "Ugh! This tea is nothing more than hot leaf juice!" "Uncle, that's what all tea is," I pointed out. "How could a member of my own family say something so horrible?" Uncle said.

No one in France cares if you tried to kill yourself. In fact, I think they like you better because you're all tragic.

When did being single become a disease?

People who look down on us poor country folk usually won't admit that anything worthwhile can come out of here.

Only of course they bleeped out the good part because it's daytime TV, and we all know that no one in America swears.

My true function within a society which embraces all of us is to continue an age-old tradition. This tradition is to create images from the depths of the imagination and to give them form, whether visual, intellectual or musical.

Human culture is early human cooperation writ large.

Cultural norms do not create morality, only collectivize and objectify it, and institutions may go a step further and sacralize it.

Word learning is thus not about putting labels on things but rather is about acquiring conventional means for coming to share attention with others in a variety of complex social contexts.

Joint attention and common ground, both personal and cultural, constitute the necessary intersubjective infrastructure for many other uniquely human activities.

It was the best juke in Austin, had everything, old and new, black, white and brown, urban and country — It's the Great American Novel of Jukeboxes.

That wasn't the way that things was supposed to be. And all because the so-called culture that I thought was right, that I thought it was cool, and I thought it was fun, and it was exciting at the time. It all led to me laying in a prison bunk by myself with no one to talk to but myself.

it's not realistic to think we can fill our minds with corrupting images yet hang on to what we know is right. When we continually expose our minds to the standards of the culture, those standards begin to seep into our lives. The fatal change comes so gradually that, like the frog in the kettle, we don't even notice it. First we are no longer shocked by evil. Then we become accustomed to it. Then we tolerate it. Then it's only a tiny step to accept it as normal.

When you notice people dealing with the concrete realities of their lives through the practices of prayer and holy reading, it is a clue you have entered a culture of discipleship.

palabra «misional» se entiende de una manera distinta cuando describe la naturaleza de la iglesia. En el mejor de los casos, no describe una actividad específica, sino la misma esencia e identidad de la iglesia cuando, en el contexto de su cultura, asume el rol que le corresponde en el relato de Dios y participa en la misión de Dios en el mundo.

Public symbols matter. They are one of the ways we tell each other, and the world, what we honor.

If the first chapter seems to talk more about the Bible and Talmud than bupkes and tukhes, it's because the Bible and Talmud are to Yiddish what plantations are to the blues. The only difference is that blues left the plantations behind, while Yiddish—try as it still sometimes does—never escaped from the Talmud. A

People here don't identify themselves by their sports team.