Quotes About Culture

Tell me how much a nation knows about its own language, and I will tell you how much that nation knows about its own identity.

The Chinese have a long history of slaughtering each other without bothering their neighbors.

The equation of evolution with progress represents our strongest cultural impediment to a proper understanding of this greatest biological revolution in the history of human thought.

Words are the weights which hold our history in place.

Karachi has had an overdose of history, too much has happened.

The first step in liquidating a people is to erase its memory. Destroy its books, its culture, its history.

History is as much an art as a science.

The subject of history is the life of peoples and mankind.

I think people should look at learning about Native American history the same as visiting Washington, D.C., and seeing the monuments there. It's all part of the package.

I loved history, particularly of the British, American and Old Testament kind.

Food might be more immediately important than history but if you don't understand what's been done to you - by your own people and the so-called 'they' - you can never get around it.

I think slavery was an awful, awful period in our history, but when I look at what's become of black culture since emancipation, I think you have to admit, maybe the Confederacy was on to something

Ages of faith and of unbelief are always said to mark the course of history.

What we have been raised to think of as inevitable - division and hierarchy, monotheism and nation states - actually accounts for less than 10 percent of human history.

The most interesting place by far was Afghanistan. Just because it is a place that I cannot see myself living. The hardness of the people and the history of the country is just so completely intense.

Before I went to New Orleans, I was a little scared of New Orleans. I don't know why. I had only been there a few times. Something about it made me feel nervous, knowing a bit about the history.

She had always been fond of history, and here [in Rome] was history in the stones of the street and the atoms of the sunshine.

I come from a town of great musicians: Washington, D.C. It's no joke, that history.

In sum, U.S. history is no more violent and oppressive than the history of England, Russia, Indonesia, or Burundi - but neither is it exceptionally less violent.

History is absolutely my thing.

When I think of black television and history, I always use The Cosby Show as the bar.

Like most passionate nations, Texas has its own history based on, but not limited by, facts.

To be Jewish is to be specifically identified with a history. And if you're not aware of that when you're a child, the whole tradition is lost.

I realized that part of that anger was because I didn't know who I was and where I came from. I didn't know my history.