Quotes About Culture

Christopher Lassiter pinched the top of his nose and closed his eyes. Quiet desperation is the English way.

The highest paid members of our society are not the people who teach us, heal us, or lead us in worship; the people we are willing to award with inordinate sums of money are the people who entertain us.

You see, culture isn't the problem, people are.

It's so easy to have divine wisdom corrupted by human wisdom. It's so easy to breathe in the polluted air of a culture that no longer actually thinks that God is, let alone that he is wise.

Churches are losing many from the current generation. Why? Because many younger people, including some of my children, see no relevance in the church. They're not looking for heaven; they want a better world. But all they're seeing is an institution trying to preserve itself through the current culture wars; pointing fingers, hating, and especially not being filled with love or mercy. Secular humanism appears much more loving than the church to so many today.

My job, as Bernard Lonergan, S.J. taught us back at the Gregorian University in Rome during the early 1960s, is "to mediate between religion and culture." That means to make sense of the world in the light of Christian belief and experience and to make sense of Christian belief in the light of our experience and knowledge of the world we live in.

But if there is an ongoing, nagging disconnect between, on the one hand, what I can and must affirm to be true and good on the basis of my present "culturally conditioned" experience and, on the other hand, what "the Bible tells me is so," something has to give. Sometimes something has to give on both sides.

The more violent the body contact of the sports you watch, the lower the class.

No one can be as calculatedly rude as the British, which amazes Americans, who do not understand studied insult and can only offer abuse as a substitute.

Civilization is what makes you sick.

The classical anthropological question, What is man?—"how like an angel, this quintessence of dust!"—is not now asked by anthropologists. Instead, they commence with a chapter on Physical Anthropology and then forget the whole topic and go on to Culture.

a wild and dangerous place where brigandage and battle were inextricably woven into a unique culture of warriors and monks. Decapitated heads ornamented the trees and gateposts. Severed hands festooned the government buildings. The Chinese and Tibetans skinned men alive, chopped them into chunks, and boiled them to death in giant cauldrons.1

É um dos grandes erros da pessoa culta: ter como adquirido que, por possuir uma mente sofisticada, possui também emoções sofisticadas".

You know you're an Arizona native when you have to look up "mass transit" in the dictionary.

You couldn't have fed the '50s into a computer and come out with the '60s.

The English are a great race,' he told me once. 'But they have a deep down belief that they are the best of all peoples.

If the first requirement of a civilisation is the possession of its own language, the second must be the pursuit of a literary tradition. Books are, in historian Barbara Tuchman's words, the carriers of civilisation.

social, artistic and scientific progress as well as technological advance are most evident where the ruling culture and ideology give men and women permission to play, whether with ideas, beliefs, principles or materials. And where playful science changes people's understanding of the way the physical world works, political change, even revolution, is rarely far behind.

the role of Assyrian merchants in assisting the development of the Anatolian economy is strikingly reminiscent of that played by the Jews in opening up the interior of Europe during the Middle Ages. Perhaps that is unsurprising: Jewish culture and tradition, as minutely prescribed in the Babylonian Talmud, was itself largely forged in Mesopotamia.

In our country, learned ignorance is on the rise.

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Not much of a day for sight-seeing," Pamela said, "but that's Trafalgar Square off to the right." I looked over my shoulder and caught sight of the National Gallery on one side and Buckingham Palace on the other and figured I had filled my culture quota for the trip.

Matamoros, Mexico? Tegucigalpa, Honduras?

I don't want to be superior to anyone for being afraid. We already have a culture built on that.