Quotes About Culture

When a head does not fulfill his commitment to customers or vendors, he only sets the precedent for subordinates to follow it as a system amongst themselves to vitiate own working environment.

His entire life in India had become irrelevant and meant nothing. Not his own achievements, not his family's affluence, everything was beyond the curtain of mirrors with which America bounded itself. Nothing beyond mattered. Here he had to recreate himself, but the basic building block of his new persona was his colour.

all cultures developed a variety of names to distinguish the shadings of any element of which there was an abundance in the environment.

Perhaps he would relive it all only when he sent his son here to study, to learn in their superb systems, to grow and be hurt and yet feel so alive in their strange world, amidst their alien and rude ways that somehow managed to be affectionate. But it would be long time from now

You should know — Aesop was a Greek.' 'What's Aesop got to do with it?

There is so much that is positive, wonderful even, about state schools. At a state school your kids will learn to live alongside and appreciate other kids from many diverse and different cultures.

In my family, as in most middle-class Indian families I knew when I was growing up, science and mathematics were held in awe.

If you see people of a particular race or culture as objects, your view of them is racist, whatever your color or lack of color or you power or lack of power.

What is more important to a library than anything else -- than everything else -- is the fact that it exists." [ The Premise Of Meaning , American Scholar; Washington, DC, June 5, 1972]

There is a big misconception about arranged marriage. Yes, it can mean that you meet someone and then have to marry them, but this was my mother saying, 'I'm going to introduce you to so-and-so - If you don't like them, fair enough.'

Negro music and culture are intrinsically improvisational, existential. Nothing is sacred. After a decade, a musical idea, no matter how innovative, is threatened.

I always felt rock and roll was very, very wholesome music.

I've always felt that rock & roll was very, very wholesome.

The dominant culture eats entire biomes. No, that is too generous, because eating implies a natural biological relationship. This culture doesn't just consume ecosystems, it obliterates them, it murders them, one after another. This culture is an ecological serial killer, and it's long past time for us to recognize the pattern.

Education is the transmission of civilization.

Man, not earth, makes civilization.

Looking out over that poisoned water, it seemed like such a scam of anti-earth abuser culture to teach people that they cause their own cancer with negative thinking. Maybe this desert lake had been guilty of negative thinking?

We are still so uneasy with the vicissitudes of sex we need to surround ourselves with caricatures of female hotness to safely conjure up the concept 'sexy'.

This may seem confusing considering the "swing to the right" this country has taken, but raunch culture transcends elections. The values people vote for are not necessarily the same values they live by. No region of the United States has a higher divorce rate than the Bible Belt.

An actor should refine public taste.

There's nothing worse in the world than shameless woman—save some other woman.

The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead.

The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living differ from the dead.

In response to our fast-food culture, a 'slow food' movement appeared. Out of hurried parenthood, a move toward slow parenting could be growing. With vital government supports for state-of-the-art public child care and paid parental leave, maybe we would be ready to try slow love and marriage.