Quotes About Culture

Rastafarianism is bringing black people back to the so-called promised land. The bodies live in Africa, but the mentalities are somewhere in the Middle East.

Sometimes it's wise to divorce your culture, if it continues to hold you back, in order to achieve greatness.

The advice of our parents will vary according to the country we are currently living in and the dominant political ideologies (politideos) of that environment.

The African culture can't be the same as the European, or the European to be similar to the American culture.

The disappointment of marriages can be improved by allowing astrologers to become matchmakers.

The idea of Aryanism is not far from Hebrew laws, marrying only your own people, to preserve your own blood and original identity.

The planet is ruled under different calendars, according to the country and religion in which you wish to practice.

There can't be the nation without culture and culture without the presence of a nation in the first place.

There is no such a thing as the universal time that is accepted by all.

This generation is destroyed by the so-called role models.

Those who wish to pray in the 'name of Jesus' should use the name Yeshua instead.

We can't keep blaming women for loving money so much. Because most of the men forget their religions upon seeing the cash.

We are products of our culture and interpret the world through our mental conditioning.

Even fervent abolitionists, viewing blacks as equal in rights but inferior socially and culturally, didn't relish having freedmen come north to live beside them but wanted them to stay down south.

The serfdom was as much a cultural as an economic matter. "Slavery is so strong that it could exist, not only without law, but even against law," Frederick Douglass lamented. "Customs, manners, morals, religion, are all on its side everywhere in the South.

I do not speak Kiowa, and I never understood her prayers, but there was something inherently sad in the sound, some merest hesitation upon the syllables of sorrow.

In fact, what we call "politics" and what we call "religion" (and for that matter what we call "culture," "philosophy," "theology," and lots of other things besides) were not experienced or thought of in the first century as separable entities. This was just as true, actually, for the Greeks and the Romans as it was for the Jews.

It is an interesting observation on today's religious climate that many people now get every bit as steamed up about insisting that 'all religions are just the same' as the older dogmaticians did about insisting on particular formulations and interpretations. The dogma that all dogmas are wrong, the monolithic insistence that all monolithic systems are to be rejected, has taken hold of the popular imagination at a level far beyond rational or logical discourse.

At the individual level, the great controlling myth of our time has been the belief that within each of us there is a real, inner, private 'self', long buried beneath layers of socialization and attempted cultural and religious control, and needing to be rediscovered if we are to live authentic lives. When we 'discover' this 'true authentic self' , we must do whatever it dictates, even if it means ignoring the norms of the 'unenlightened' society all around us.

To enjoy worship for its own sake, or simply out of a cultural appreciation of the 'performance' (whether of Byrd or heavy rock), would be like Moses coming upon the burning bush and deciding to cook his lunch on it.

Our philosophies have tended to split the world in two: "science" deals only with "hard facts," while the "arts" are imagined to deal in nebulous questions of inner meanings. Equally, in popular culture, inner feelings and motivations (" discovering who you really are" or "going with your heart") are regularly invoked as the true personal reality over against mere outward "identities.

The present generation has gazed with justified revulsion upon the whole late modern culture of violence and death; and it has noticed worrying signs of the same culture in some expressions of Christianity.

The spiritual starvation diet offered by secularism made people so hungry that they now eat anything.

in the ancient Near East the idea of a single community across the traditional boundaries of culture, gender, and ethnic and social groupings was unheard of. Unthinkable, in fact. But there it was. A new kind of "family" had come into existence. Its focus of identity was Jesus; its manner of life was shaped by Jesus; its characteristic mark was believing allegiance to Jesus.