Quotes About Culture

So long as you are in the Hindu religion, you cannot expect to have freedom of thought.

As "voyeurs of billionaires" (Goolsbee, 2007) material excess has become our metronome of modern living.

Let Africans remain good Africans and not a poor copy of Europeans. In the whole wide world, Africa my Africa came first. I'm proud of my colour whosoever is not proud of his colour is not fit to live. Only the best for Africa.

Man is multiplied by the "number of languages" he possesses and speaks. (Los Viajes!)

Kids who have no interest in books are usually from slob parents who themselves had no interest in books.

I hate callin women bitches but the bitches love it.

Shout out to asian girls, let the lights dim some(dim sum).

The only good thing about the 1980s was that they invented rap, but rap didn't get good until 1992, so what does that say about the 1980s.

When I thought I was retired, I wanted to travel around the world and watch soccer games.

It isn`t premarital sex if you have no intention of getting married.

I love Sweden. The entire world should be like Sweden. They all like to drink and get naked, and the women are hot. I can't think of a better nation on the planet.

What our culture lacks are honest messages about what it really means to be a healthy human being. Or how you make humans grow.

We believe that God is big enough to give every nationality their own religion, as he's given them their own taste in food, in plants, in furniture, and housing. I think that each religion has their basic Christ-ish way to get to the Everlasting God.

local people notice we aren't there to learn from them but to teach them; we won't ask questions but will give answers; we aren't there to be with them but to train them; we won't build trust but will attempt to transform them; we're not there to dialogue but to lecture. Paulo Freire, the Brazilian educator, calls this a "subject-object relationship." Unchecked ethnocentrism turns human beings into objects to be manipulated.

Servanthood is revealed in simple, everyday events. But it's complex because servanthood is culturally defined—that is, serving must be sensitive to the cultural landscape while remaining true to the Scripture.

And, one thing I definitely enjoyed personally, from a selfish point of view, was exploration and going to places that I had never been to before and learning, you know, meeting the people and getting to know, new sights and sounds, etc.

I'm conscious of race whenever I'm writing, just as I'm conscious of class, religion, human psychology, politics — everything that makes up the human experience. I don't think I can do a good job if I'm not paying attention to what's meaningful to people, and in American culture, there isn't anything that informs human interaction more than the idea of race.

The best morale exist when you never hear the word mentioned. When you hear a lot of talk about it, it's usually lousy.

We merely want to live in peace with all the world, to trade with them, to commune with them, to learn from their culture as they may learn from ours, so that the products of our toil may be used for our schools and our roads and our churches and not for guns and planes and tanks and ships of war.

There is nothing more vulgar than sophisticated kitsch.

Music is not an acquired culture... it is an active part of life.

My whole life, I've always had to be surrounded by creative things. I find it relaxing to be in touch with creations by other people.

You shouldn't do science just to improve wealth - do science for the sake of human culture and knowledge. There must be some purpose in life that is higher than just surviving.

Culture relates to objects and is a phenomenon of the world; entertainment relates to people and is a phenomenon of life.