Quotes About Culture

The British do not expect happiness. I had the impression, all the time that I lived there, that they do not want to be happy; they want to be right.

I like it when somebody tells me a story, and I actually really feel that that's becoming like a lost art in American cinema.

Elvis movies weren't real movies, they were "Elvis Presley movies

Every country can be defined through their food, their music and their language. That's the soul of a country.

Digital Transformation is the methodology in which organizations transform and create new business models and culture with digital technologies" (2013)

Above all, the very world view, "Every town our home town, every[one our kin - ?????? ??? ??????? ??????]" can only emanate from a civilizational wisdom which has seen places, found merit in give and take and is enriched by travels, journeys and migrations.

The manner of employing the leisure time is always an index of a people's culture. The Tamils of old had their own pastimes which reveal at once their rustic simplicity and their notable refinement (Pillay 1969: 326-327)

The fact that the pluralism of India is not an ornamental frill but a foundational core needs to be duly recognized.

Wealth is not of necessity a curse, nor poverty a blessing. Wholesome and easy abundance is better than either extreme; better for our manhood that we have enough for daily comfort; enough for culture, for hospitality, for charity. More than this may or may not be a blessing. Certainly it can be a blessing only by being accepted as a trust.

If you want to know the value of free inquiry and a secular, liberal arts education, look at the Middle East. Simple isn't it?

How the proud Rajputs reconciled with the idea of offering their daughters to Muslims, has not been explained. Was it a political compulsion only? Or were the Mughals, as a martial race admitted in their caste as the kshatriyas? But it was all along oneway traffic and no Mughal princess is recorded to have been married to a Rajput.

History. Language. Passion. Custom. All these things determine what men say, think, and do. These are the hidden puppet-strings from which all men hang.

The Bible is God's law-word which must govern every sphere of life and thought.

The first book I opened looked promising—Mummies and Their Secrets by Sir Lynn N. Bandage.

Sex is a matter of biology, while gender is a matter of grammar, and there is no earthly reason why sex should be involved in gender distinctions.

Conséquence : il y avait, en 1919, une civilisation européenne, avec pour variante une culture américaine. Il y a, en 2017, une civilisation américaine, dont les cultures européennes semblent, avec toute leur diversité, au mieux, des variables d'ajustement, au pire, des réserves indigènes.

Do you know the difference between an expat and an immigrant? You're an immigrant in a country you look up to, an expat in one you consider beneath you.

Like all cities, Beirut has many layers, and I had been familiar with one or two. What I was introduced to that day with Ali and Kamal was the Beirut of its people. You take different groups, put them on top of each other, simmer for a thousand years, keep adding more and more strange tribes, simmer for another few thousand years, salt and pepper with religion, and what you get is a delightful mess of a stew that still tastes delectable and exotic, no matter how many times you partake of it.

You can say that Lebanese has hundreds of lexemes for family relations. Family to the Lebanese is as snow to the Inuit.

Almost everything that men have said best has been said in Greek.

How does the old cliché go? When every Arab girl stood in line waiting for God to hand out the desperate-to-get-married gene, I must have been somewhere else, probably lost in a book.

Childhood is played out in a foreign language and our memory of it is a Constance Garnett translation.

What happened to all those leading men of the great bacchanalia? They either died of AIDS or accepted roles as supporting actors in the middlebrow drama series of hetero culture-you know, if they're to kiss, we must have sunsets in the background. Once they were proud to explore every crevice of life in the margins, now their ambition is just to get along. Color me unimpressed.

The platter could probably sate four starving Ethiopians into a crapulous state.