Quotes About Culture

cultures—people are spontaneously generous if forced to make instant decisions but begin to gravitate toward more selfish strategies if given time to think. All of this suggests that honest behavior is governed by automatic mental processes, whereas controlled processes are involved in lying or faking. In other words, effortless, unselfconscious behavior—behavior that is wu-wei—acts like a window into our true character.

He was just one of those Englishmen who was always saying silly things to sound less pompous, and pompous things to sound less silly.

The measure of a work of art is how much art it has in it, not how much 'relevance'. Relevant to whom? Relevant to what? Nothing is more ephemeral than a hot topic.

We should never denigrate any other culture but rather help people to understand the relationship between their own culture and the dominant culture. When you understand another culture or language, it does not mean that you have to lose your own culture.

Culture hides more than it reveals, and strangely enough what it hides, it hides most effectively from its own participants.

The study of man is the study of his extensions.

People carry around with them internalization's fixed-feature space learned early in life. Man is like other members of the animal kingdom , first, last and always a prisoner of his biological organism. No matter how hard he tries, it is impossible for him to the best himself of his own culture, where it has penetrated to the roots of his nervous system and determines how he perceives the world.

Most of culture lies hidden and is outside voluntary control, making up the warp and weft of human existence. Even when small fragments of culture are elevated to awareness, they are difficult to change, not only because they are so personally experienced but because people cannot act or interact at all in any meaningful way except through the medium of culture.

From now on, how one arrives at a definition of the relationship of man's basic nature to his culturally conditioned control systems (extensions) is of crucial importance. For in our shrinking globe man can ill afford cultural illiteracy.

The best translations cannot convey to us the strength and exquisite delicacy of thought in its native garb, and he to whom such books are shut flounders about in outer darkness.

A major criterion for judging the anxiety level of any society is the loss of its capacity to be playful.

Any system itself is nothing since your mentality and behaviour is that system, which reflects on society.

Being indigenous does not mean the authority on language since the majority does not speak and write in a correct, scientific, and scholarly language.

Every language carries phenomenal knowledge within it; never depend on your language only; otherwise, you can neither improve that nor become aware of new things; therefore, read and learn that continuously.

Follow me if you have the mind for literature; otherwise, you would find nothing other than that.

No one can stop corruption in such a society, where the majority of the lower and upper class choose that as its mindset to do it.

The male majority in the world, especially in Asia, enforce the self-ego-verdict of only its wishes for entire life upon female journey-mate, during the Wedding Night instead of love and respect; consequently, the women become the victim of men. This unjust custom rejects the rights of a woman at both laws, judicial and religious.

The women's rights fail and collapse if women wrongly fight for that; otherwise, as a fact, each woman carries a key to every right by birth, as morally, culturally, and religiously prospects. The issue and questions lie not on law and right; it depends on the mentality and conduct of men since neither law nor right can change that, except men themselves. However, follow the line of limits and learn to live as society's values; it is wisdom and success.

Thoughts do not need to be native but universal.

To not care, respect, and honour someone's values, culture, religion, and moral thoughts are awkward behaviour; it also means you declare; you are a duffer. Though people will understand your way of thinking while you don't see problems, in this regard; however, you make laugh people only about yourself.

Never Forget. A country is it's people.- King Nefertari Cobra

Small white clouds floated in the blue sky above, and on the street a flute vendor was playing the flute - a sharp, soft, sinuous, Oriental tune that twisted and turned in the ear like embroidery, like a picture of a dream in a novel, a trail of white mist coming out from under the bed curtain and unfurling all sorts of images, slowly uncoiling like a lazy snake, till finally the drowsiness is just too great, and even the dream falls asleep.

He did not want his son to be all for present success, as the American, or to be all for tradition, as is the Englishman, but he thought the two might find a happy meeting place in a mind not yet well formed.

I'm from a family of readers. Not of great books, but of great reading