Quotes About Culture

During one of these arguments, Diego picked up one of his paintings of the Mexican desert and shouted, I don't want to go back to that! He had spent fifteen years in Paris and the life of an expatriate suited him. It was easier to be a passionate Mexican nationalist when he wasn't living there

They are, essentially, a happy family, in their scream-at-each-other-from-the-other-end-of-the-house kind of way and I've always felt at home around them. Jews are a lot like Italians, except smarter.

When we say to someone, Oh you're behaving like an animal, it's actually a compliment rather than an insult. We need to work for a science of peace and build a culture of empathy, and emphasize the positive, pro-social side of the character of other animals and ourselves. It's truly who we and other animals are.

It's about how to create a culture where doing well is synonymous with doing good in order to thrive in a world where a company is only as strong as the principles it adopts.

like the culture developed by Coach Steve Kerr for my beloved Golden State Warriors. Even though he helms a team, Steve believes that having good people is more important that just having good basketball players; he understands that players come and go, but the ethos on the court gets passed down from one game and one season to another. The best teams play together like a family who trust one another to have their back.

The willingness to use force usually means you won't have to. It is a paradox because our modern culture conditions us to believe violence attracts violence, and violence never solves anything.

In short, social convention and beliefs are nothing but air.

vom Geschlecht jener, die glauben, ohne Literatur und Musik, ohne Kunst und das Theater habe das Leben keinen Sinn

I think," I said, "that a culture must deny individuality to the point that symbolic logic systems have developed. After that point, there should be sufficient divergence to encourage creativity. But after a time, the needs of the one must be subsumed into the needs of the many.

La cultura no garantiza el buen juicio, el escepticismo ni la sabiduría.

Enquanto a língua é um rio caudaloso, longo e largo, que nunca se detém em seu curso, a gramatica normativa é apenas um igapó, uma grande poça de água parada, um charco, um brejo, um terreno alagadiço, á margem da língua.

A prudent governor will not roughly oppose even the superstitions of his people; and though he may wish they were wiser, he will know that he cannot make them so by offending their prejudices.

A prudent governor will not roughly oppose even the superstitions of his people; and though he may wish that they were wiser, he will know that he cannot make them so by offending their prejudices.

not to walk about in the house in my outdoor dress

God may or may not be the same yesterday, today, and tomorrow, but the cultural context in which we speak about God does change.

I have been told that the German novelist Thomas Mann defined a myth (a particular kind of metaphorical narrative) as "a story about the way things never were, but always are." So, is a myth true? Literally true, no. Really true, yes.

In the United States, the central values of our culture are the "three A's": attractiveness, achievement, and affluence. For

Jesus's vivid experience of the reality of Spirit radically challenges our culture's way of seeing reality.

Thus Paul has been used to support systems of cultural conventions oppressive to more than half of the human race. No wonder slaves, women, gays and lesbians, and those who care about them have often found Paul appalling.

Fundamentalism itself—whether Christian, Jewish, or Muslim—is modern. It is a reaction to modern culture.

Anthropologically speaking, they are delegates of the tribe to another layer of reality, mediators who connect their communities to the Spirit.

There is no people so brutish or barbarous that they do not know that they must believe in a god, even if they do not know precisely what god they should worship.

The Eskimo has fifty-names for snow because it is important to them; there ought to be as many for love.

When any civilization is dust and ashes, he said, art is all that's left over. Images, words, music. Imaginative structures. Meaning—human meaning, that is—is defined by them. You have to admit that.