Quotes About Culture

In my heart, I'm an Alabaman who went up north to work.

Thinking critically about why you assume what you assume can make you sensitive, over time, to the cultural mores you bring to the biblical text.

Western societies are, by and large, individualistic societies. The most important entity in an individualistic culture is the individual person.

Rather, members of collectivist cultures make decisions based on the counsel of elders—parents, aunts or uncles. The highest goal and virtue in this sort of culture is supporting the community. This makes people happy (makarios).

In Western individualist cultures, the decision to become a Christian is a personal and individual decision.

In collectivist societies, conversion is not strictly an individual decision, so it is often not an individual experience.

when we project our own cultural mores onto the original audience of the Bible, we may fail to apply the Bible correctly in our own lives.

Seeley was right when he said that "moral deterioration is bound to set in in any subject race.

The French never allow a distinguished son of France to lack a statue.

Americans are people who prefer the Continent to their own country, but refuse to learn its languages.

The artist creates his own elite, and the elite its own artists.

E]very community insists on what Professor G. J. Renier calls "the Story that must be told" about its own past, and where scholarship decays, myth will crowd in.

I believe in courtesy. It is the way we avoid hurting people's feelings. She thought that maybe, just maybe, western civilization was in decline because people did not take time to take tea at four o'clock.

While her lips talked culture, her heart was planning to invite him to tea

The kingdom of music is not the kingdom of this world; it will accept those whom breeding and intellect and culture have alike rejected. The commonplace person begins to play, and shoots into the empyrean without effort, whilst we look up, marvelling how he has escaped us, and thinking how we could worship him and love him, would he but translate his visions into human words, and his experiences into human actions. Perhaps he cannot; certainly he does not, or does so very seldom.

One doesn't come to Italy for niceness," was the retort; "one comes for life. Buon giorno! Buon giorno!

You mean that a Frenchman could share with a friend and yet not go to prison?' 'Share? Do you mean unite? If both are of age and avoid public indecency, certainly.' 'Will the law ever be that in England?' 'I doubt it. England has always been disinclined to accept human nature.

One doesn't come to Italy for niceness, one comes for life!

England has always been disinclined to accept human nature.

The kingdom of music is not the kingdom of this world; it will accept those whom breeding and intellect and culture have alike rejected.

Let her go to Italy!" he cried. "Let her meddle with what she doesn't understand!

Italy and London are the only places where I don't feel to exist on sufferance.

They travelled for thirteen hours down-hill, whilst the streams broadened and the mountains shrank, and the vegetation changed, and the people ceased being ugly and drinking beer, and began instead to drink wine and to be beautiful.

Culture had worked in her own case, but during the last few weeks she had doubted whether it humanized the majority, so wide and so widening is the gulf that stretches between the natural and the philosophic man, so many the good chaps who are wrecked in trying to cross it.