Quotes About Culture

The money itself didn't seem terribly important to Fischer. He cared little for material things but he hungered for respect and he was acutely aware that in the culture in which he lived, money was the prevailing gauge of success.

emotions among the British—pride, patriotism, nostalgia

Missoula has a culture uniquely its own, however, thanks to the fusion of its gritty frontier heritage with the university's myriad impacts. UM has nationally distinguished programs in biology and ecology and is perhaps even more renowned for its literary bona fides. The faculty of the university's Creative Writing Program, founded in 1920, has included such influential authors as Richard Hugo, James Crumley, and William Kittredge.

As Katie J. M. Baker observed in her Jezebel article, "In Missoula…drunk guys who may have 'made mistakes' nearly always get the benefit of the doubt. Drunk girls, however, do not.

drunk guys who may have 'made mistakes' nearly always get the benefit of the doubt. Drunk girls, however, do not." Compounding

finds Mexicans to be warm, friendly people. Much more hospitable than Americans….

History, as nearly no one seems to know, is not merely something to be read. And it does not refer merely, or even principally, to the past. On the contrary, the great force of history comes from the fact that we carry it within us, are unconsciously controlled by it in many ways, and history is literally present in all that we do. —JAMES BALDWIN

A president sets a tone for the nation and helps tailor habits of heart and of mind.

The measure of our political and cultural health cannot be whether we all agree on all things at all times. We don't, and we won't. Disagreement and debate—including ferocious disagreement and exhausting debate—are hallmarks of American politics.

image of the kind of nation that TR, before, during, and after his presidency, sought to sustain: one in which America was welcoming to certain groups if those groups put away their cultures of origin.

1802, Alexander Hamilton—himself an immigrant and, in the twenty-first century, an emblem of American mobility—had reservations: "The influx of foreigners must…tend to produce a heterogeneous compound; to change and corrupt the national spirit; to complicate and confound public opinion; to introduce foreign propensities.

To change the culture leaders must make it clear that if a team member does make a medication error, it's a process problem, not a people problem. Our job as managers and leaders is to redesign the process that delivered the defect. The culture changes when the leaders focus on the process and quit blaming the people.

I've always believed society to be a fundamentally rational thing, but what if it isn't? What if it is built on insanity?

society was, they claimed, an expression of that particular sort of madness.

aplomb. I had managed to portray myself as a good Jew and

if a person was overcome by a violent madness he'd involuntarily start to sound like someone from Louisiana.

As our larynxes descended, we were able to make sounds with our mouths in new and far more expressive ways. Verbal language soon overtook physical gesturing as the primary means of communication for all human beings except Italians. (Earth (The Book), p. 36)

Instead of modifying their beliefs, institutions, politics, and property systems to fit their environment, humans enter habitats and alter them to suit their cultures.

When we fail to properly civilize people, human nature rushes in. Absent a higher alternative, human nature drives us to make sense of the world on its own instinctual terms: That's tribalism.

To have a viable civilization, people have to have a benign government, a semblance of education, spare time, imagination, and manners

Das Pub. Das Britannia. Ein uriges altes Wirtshaus, so britisch wie … der Bowlerhut und Fisch und Chips, stellvertretend für die beste Gastlichkeit, die unser Land zu bieten hat.« Mr Ellis erschauderte. »Die armen Belgier. Das wollen wir ihnen also zumuten, ja? Würstchen mit Kartoffelbrei und Schweinspastete von vorletzter Woche, heruntergespült mit einem Pint lauwarmes Bitter. Leute sind schon wegen weniger ausgewandert.«Ã¯Â¿Â½

Nobody gives a tinker's fuck about fiction any more, not real fiction, and the only kind of … values anybody seems to care about are the ones that can be added up on a balance sheet.

Our culture is an edifice built of external memories, a way of fending off mortality.

Brooklyn was like Philadelphia made better by its proximity to Manhattan.