Quotes About Culture

When does a fake Mohawk become a real Mohawk? Who decides? How do you know if it's happened?

Now that Scotty has entered the realm of myth, everyone wants to own him. And maybe they should. Doesn't a myth belong to everyone?

We'll emerge from this war victorious and unscathed, and become bankers to the world. We'll export our dreams, our language, our culture, our way of life. And it will prove irresistible.

The whole fucking world is upside down. Buildings are missing. You get strip-searched everytime you go to someone's office. Everybody sounds stoned, because they're emailing people the whole time they're talking to you. Tom and Nicole are with different people...and now my rock-and-roll sister and her husband are hanging around with Republicans. What the fuck!

Was everyone nuts in medieval times? Doubtful. But their imaginations were more active. Their inner lives were rich and weird.

Because our dominance won't arise from subjugating peoples. We'll emerge from this war victorious and unscathed, and become bankers to the world. We'll export our dreams, our language, our culture, our way of life. And it will prove irresistible.

aureole of Saint Patrick banishing snakes

My parents started with very little and were the only ones in their families to graduate from college. As parents, they focused on education, but did not stop at academics - they made sure that we knew music, saw art and theatre and traveled - even though it meant budgeting like crazy.

Many of the women in Los Angeles are part of the notorious gang culture, and they will forever have my gratitude for, you know, letting me live.

We violate God's intention for the human family by creating false categories of value and identity, based on identifiable characteristics such as culture, place of origin, and skin color."10 Seeing such identifiable differences as a source for celebration, rather than as a cause for differently valuing one another, is essential for putting us on the path away from division and toward racial reconciliation

People in America are not ignorant of Christianity. They've heard the message, seen our churches on every corner, they flick by our Christian TV shows, they see our fish symbols on the backs of our cars. They've seen so much of pop Christian culture that they have a programmed response to us: Ignore, ignore, ignore. What's needed is a change of parameters—something that will alter their emotional response.

mail-outs. As missionaries have always understood, the key is to study the culture you are passionate about reaching and submerge into that space with respect and love.

church-planting team is representative of the culture, not a group of paid professionals or full-time ministers.

in many cultures, mirrors were believed to be magical objects that granted access to supernatural knowledge.

To express your sense of place in the world is, it would seem, an endless act of translation. A self-portrait is not always a depiction of a body.

Right." ... "No feminism at the dinner table.

Hawaii. Nieuw-Zeeland. Machu Picchu. Tokio. Bali.

Epistemology is still a central issue in philosophy, and we moderns are particularly vexed with the question of how we can come to know anything outside what we already know, that is, how we can climb out of our own culture's basic assumptions, and how we can hope to see beyond our brains' basic formation.

Get out there and see your state. Go to museums and parks and historic sites. Get yourselves some culture so that when you do leave you can take it.

Like most people in the Midwest, Embryo doesn't believe in humor, especially when it pertains to sensitive subjects.

It is always the Germans who cause the trouble, what is it about Germans that they must molest and oppress?... They have never been civilized, said Sosthene...They were never conquered by Roman. They remain barbarians. Phoebe stared at him. It was a viewpoint... One is perhaps inclined to forget that even here in Britain that were four hundred years of the Pax Romana, he said gently. In Germany, no -- only the Vandals and the Goths. Every so often they burst out. It is in the breed.

Since the same human mire remains beneath, does not all civilisation reduce itself to the superiority of smelling nice and living well?

The Russians had a great taste for her, owing to her embonpoint.

that they were often as thrilled by trash as by an acknowledged masterpiece (32)