Quotes About Culture

If people could read the same books, they would inhabit the same world.

Fluidity, mobility, illusoriness -- these are precisely the qualities that make us civilised. Barbarians don't travel. They simply go to destinations or conduct raids.

Fluidity, mobility, illusoriness-these are precisely the qualities that make us civilized. Barbarians don't travel. They simply go to destinations or conduct raids.

How wonderful – to translate from one language to another, and by so doing to bring people closer to one another – what a beautiful idea.

mitologi?, jako zbiór pouczaj?cych opowie?ci, które pomagaj? ?y?

Keitin teetä. Mustaa teetä. Saakoon nainen tietää, mitä on Tee.

Drogi Mieczys?awie (...) czy zgodzi si? pan ze mn?, ?e cz?owiek istnieje tylko w j?zyku? Wszystko poza j?zykiem jest zwierz?ce i niezró?nicowane. To j?zyk sprawia, ?e jeste?my tym, kim jeste?my.

In fact, no real heresy could ever come about in Polish. By its nature, the Polish language is obedient to every orthodoxy.

The English laws punish vice; the Chinese laws do more, they reward virtue.

The miscellaneous poetry of this age is nothing like the last; it is very poor.

The Irish gave the bagpipes to the Scots as a joke, but the Scots haven't got the joke yet.

Music is part of being human.

We helped plow the fields, build the dams, write the poems and sing the music of America. Are not all Americans proud, of Doree Miller, of Frederick Douglass, of Paul Robeson, of Joe Louis, of Marian Anderson

Consciously or unconsciously we all strive to make the kind of a world we like.

We are all tattooed in our cradles with the beliefs of our tribe; the record may seem superficial, but it is indelible.

He comes of the Brahmin caste of New England. This is the harmless, inoffensive, untitled aristocracy.

We are all tattooed in our cradles with the beliefs of our tribe; the record may seem superficial, but it is indelible. You cannot educate a man wholly out of superstitious fears which were implanted in his imagination, no matter how utterly his reason may reject them.

Most of the things we do, we do for no better reason than that our father's have done them or our neighbors do them, and the same is true of a large part than what we suspect of what we think.

In a thousand years archaeologists will dig up tanning beds and think we fried people as punishment.

The reason it has relevance is because I, as a popular Arab personality - the Arab people like me and respect me - thought it was time for me to make an ever so tiny statement about what I thought about this whole thing.

Other countries have their history. Uruguay has its football.

The striking silence about duties in many contemporary discussions of rights no doubt reflects immense cultural shifts from a world centred on social and ethical duties, to one in which legal requirements and their enforcement by states are seen as fundamental, and in which individuals are commonly seen as having rights – but little is said about their duties.

Life will go on as long as there is someone to sing, to dance, to tell stories and to listen.

The moment you give up your principles, and your values, you are dead, your culture is dead, your civilisation is dead. Period.