Quotes About Culture

According to Father Ron Rolheiser, "American culture is the most powerful narcotic this planet has ever perpetrated."5 By keeping us focused on food, pleasure, entertainment, and comfort, it keeps us from developing spiritual depth, personal integrity, character, concern for the poor, or community life.

Nallino s'était demandé en 1933 si le danger musulman ne serait pas diminué par l'infiltration dans les âmes musulmanes de certains éléments dissolvants de la culture européenne : qu'il s'agisse du modernisme philosophique ou du nationalisme racial. [Causes et modes de la propagation de l'islam parmi les populations païennes de l'Afrique.]

Doesn't every kid want to dig a hold to China? Didn't you? What about Chinese children?

civilization?

People want to be amused, not preached at, you know. Morals don't sell nowadays.

the mixture of German and American spirit in them produces a constant state of effervescence.

Went to Wiesbaden first, a pleasant, gay place, full of people.

Dear, how charming! I hope I shall go abroad some day, but I'd rather go to Rome than the row, said Amy, who had not the remotest idea what the Row was and wouldn't have asked for the world.

You know any Mormons? asked Martin Cross I don't think so. They haven't got to you. They'll come around yet. It's in their religion to change Indians into whites. I thought that was a government job.

Short Perfect Novels Too Loud a Solitude, by Bohumil Hrabel Train Dreams, by Denis Johnson Sula, by Toni Morrison The Shadow-Line, by Joseph Conrad The All of It, by Jeannette Haine Winter in the Blood, by James Welch Swimmer in the Secret Sea, by William Kotzwinkle The Blue Flower, by Penelope Fitzgerald First Love, by Ivan Turgenev Wide Sargasso Sea, by Jean Rhys Mrs. Dalloway, by Virginia Woolf Waiting for the Barbarians, by J. M. Coetzee Fire on the Mountain, by Anita Desai

You can't assimilate Indian ghosts. It's too late!

The colored race is not ready it seems to me for high culture.

How fortunate we were to grow up there, in a beautiful country, with good neighbors, people of culture and refinement, kind friends.

most of the sort restricted to Anglo-Saxon Christian men

He preferred to give to religious, cultural, and educational causes, not to social welfare agencies.

Maybe that was what happened when people grew up in a place where mountains shut them in, kept everything turned inward, buffered them from everything else. How long did it take before that landscape become internalized, was passed down from generation to generation like blood type or eye color?

The name's Old Testament derivation did not surprise him. Campbell's first name was Exra, and there was an Absalom and a Solomon in the camp. But no Lukes or Matthews, which Buchanan had once noted, telling Pemberton that from his research the highlanders tended to live more by the Old Testament than the New.

The danger of Italy...is, it tends to make one florid.

Time and space. Castillian needs two words : ' tiempo ' and ' espacio '. Quechua has one : ' pacha '. Pacha is space, and Pacha is time, for neither exists without the other.

Crecemos como bonsáis, torturados y podados y empequeñecidos por las circunstancias, las convenciones, los prejuicios culturales, los imperativos sociales, los traumas infantiles y las expectativas familiares. #HonrarALosPadres.

Le repugnaban los hombres tatuados. En el pueblo no había visto a nadie así y, por otra parte, ni Robert Redford ni Julio Iglesias ni nadie verdaderamete fino y decente se tatuaba.

Siempre me ha dado pena la gente que no lee, y no ya porque sean más incultos, que sin duda lo son; o porque estén más indefensos y sean menos libres, que también, sino, sobre todo, porque viven menos.

Each in its own way, the five major belief systems of Judaism, Buddhism, Confucianism, Christianity and Islam by their nature insisted on the inferiority of women and demanded their subjection to values and imperatives devised to promote the supremacy of men.

well-to-do, well-groomed, well-bred, and