Quotes About Culture

People consume music in a very different way. It doesn't seem to be as all-important as it used to be for us. Kids have got computer games and a million other things to keep themselves entertained. We had music and our imaginations, and that was it.

A car is useless in New York, essential everywhere else. The same with good manners.

Forget about calories - everything makes thin people thinner, and fat people fatter.

Forget about calories — everything makes thin people thinner, and fat people fatter.

Every American child should grow up knowing a second language, preferably English.

no biblical interpretation is ever developed in a social or cultural vacuum. Most interpretations are autobiographical, where we ascertain the meaning of the text through the telling of our own stories, projecting onto the Bible how we define and interpret the biblical story in light of our own life experiences.

Satan's metaphysical existence can never be separated from the politics of domination, specifically colonialism. It provides vides the dominant culture with the ability to depict those whom they conquer, oppress, and repress as the Other.

Los médicos, en cambio, pueden ensayar en el hospital con los indios.

Todas las religiones son verdaderas en cuanto hacen vivir espiritualmente a los pueblos que las profesan

En esta España de calzonazos —decía— los curas manejan a las mujeres y las mujeres a los hombres...

La afición a la lectura ha llegado a ser tan sospechosa que el analfabetismo se hace deseable y honroso.

I could speak Spanish fluently growing up, but I'm so out of practice, and I have such a tremendous respect for songwriting in the Spanish language.

Alguém dissera um dia que se podia viver sem tudo, menos água e comida, mas que viver sem livros e sem música não seria o mesmo que viver.

LITTERATURE: le meilleur papier hygiénique du siècle

Azi ii lumea rea si femeile-s fudule.

Such practices and beliefs, which interfere with happiness, are neither inevitable nor necessary; they evolved by chance, as a result of random responses to accidental conditions. But once they become part of the norms and habits of a culture, people assume that this is how things must be; they come to believe they have no other options.

If music modulates our feelings, so does food; and all the fine cuisines of the world are based on that knowledge. The

There are natives of New Guinea who spend more time looking in the jungle for the colorful feathers they use for decoration in their ritual dances than they spend looking for food. And this is by no means a rare example: art, play, and ritual probably occupy more time and energy in most cultures than work.

At certain times in history cultures have taken it for granted that a person wasn't fully human unless he or she learned to master thoughts and feelings.

In the heyday of its material splendor, our society is suffering from an astonishing variety of strange ills.

Cultures are defensive constructions against chaos, designed to reduce the impact of randomness on experience. They

It stands to reason, however, that a child who has been abused, or who has been often threatened with the withdrawal of parental love—and unfortunately we are becoming increasingly aware of what a disturbing proportion of children in our culture are so mistreated—will be so worried about keeping his sense of self from coming apart as to have little energy left to pursue intrinsic rewards.

We have come to accept that our morality simply no longer has currency outside our own culture.

civilization is built on the repression of individual desires