Quotes About Culture

If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion and avoid the people, you might better stay at home.

Civilizations should be measured by the degree of diversity attained and the degree of unity retained.

You should always respect what you are and your culture because if your art is going to mean anything, that is where it comes from.

Tribalism never prospers, for when it does, everyone will respect it as a true nationalism, and no-one will dare call it tribalism.

Anglo-Saxon civilization has taught the individual to protect his own rights; American civilization will teach him to respect the rights of others.

Why is it that, as a culture, we are more comfortable seeing two men holding guns than holding hands?

House music is about love, and lots of hip hop is about hate and intolerance, so in that respect, it's not good at all.

Because we should always respect other nationalities, I have always tried to play them with dignity.

The fact that most people do not understand and respect the very best things, such as Mozart's concertos, is what permits men like us to become famous.

For many, the hijab represents modesty, piety and devotion to God, and I truly respect that. But the hijab should not be used as a means of applying social pressure on people.

In some countries the common people are not permitted to read the Bible at all. In ours, it is as common as a newspaper and in schools is read with nearly the same degree of respect.

The more things a man is ashamed of, the more respectable he is.

In Japan, mothers insist on achievement and accomplishment as a sign of love and respect. Thus to fail places children in a highly shamed situation.

Children of a culture born in a water-rich environment, we have never really learned how important water is to us. We understand it, but we do not respect it.

The literature of a people must so ring from the sense of its nationality; and nationality is impossible without self-respect, and self-respect is impossible without liberty.

Marks of Identity is, among other things, the expression of the process of alienation in a contemporary intellectual with respect to his own country.

While I have the utmost respect for people who practice the Christian faith, the fact is, as everyone knows, I am as Jewish as a matzo ball or kosher salami.

At home we ate fish every Friday, as Catholics were then supposed to do. Being Jewish, I compromised. I wore a hat when I ate fish, out of respect for my own religion and the fish's family.

Rome is a very loony city in every respect. One needs but spend an hour or two there to realize that Fellini makes documentaries.

There is an attitude in the culture that says that everybody is entitled to their opinion. You got to respect their opinion. No, you damn well haven't got to respect their opinion.

The majority of pop stars are complete idiots in every respect.

It's fun to be a part of pop history. Anytime you can be referenced in that respect it can be cool.

Our high respect for a well read person is praise enough for literature.

Being identified as a poet in France or Denmark or India one is greeted with gracious respect.