Quotes About Culture

Iedereen noemt zijn schip dezer dagen maar naar vogels. - Erak

Disco sure did suck.

In Book II, Section-104, of his celebrated History, Herodotus states :—"For my part I believe the Colchi to be a colony of Egyptians, because like them they have black skins and frizzled hair." (See any English translation of THE HISTORY of HERODOTUS.

I'm passionate and I travel the world not just as a tourist but to understand cultures... I've lived with Masai tribe... I travel the world and bring it back in the form of a research book that would become the starting point for the collection.

Myths aren't fairy tales or legends—they're an honest attempt to explain mysteries...

we have entertained ourselves with the pornography of violence and inflamed passions that might otherwise have slumbered...

language always occurs in a context - you can speak Elizabethan words, but to speak the language you have to put on the mindset...

For most people, media portrayals of the positive and satisfying sexual life of singles are disconnected with reality as they know it.

Truth: the most deadly weapon ever discovered by humanity. Capable of destroying entire perceptual sets, cultures, and realities. Outlawed by all governments everywhere. Possession is normally punishable by death.

He had led a sheltered childhood and never learned to swear convincingly. He had long ago learned that swearing, like foreign languages, is best learned at an early age, but because he regarded it as a social grace he never gave up trying to master it.

Some tourists think Amsterdam is a city of sin, but in truth it is a city of freedom. And in freedom, most people find sin.

Here Greek and Roman find themselves alive along these crowded shelves; and Shakespeare treads again his stage, and Chaucer paints anew his age.

We live in a world where amnesia is the most wished-for state. When did history become a bad word?

As the common people say, Only harlots marry in May.

history is to society what memory is to the individual.

Though alien to modern thinking, we need to reckon with the possibility that written forms are not necessarily significantly more enduring or reliable. In other words, it may be wrong to presume that Jesus' words suddenly became more permanent when recorded in written form, as if our textual culture is better at preserving truth than their oral culture.

The evangelical commitment is to take the text at face value while resisting our culture's post-Enlightenment inclination toward skepticism. God must remain free to act in our world in improbable ways. The evangelical task is to assess accurately, with literary and theological sensitivity, what the face value of the text is, even if the result departs from traditional assessments.

Though we cannot expect to be able to think like they thought, or read their minds, or penetrate very deeply into so much that is opaque to us in their culture, we can begin to see that there are other ways of thinking besides our own and begin to identify some of the ways in which we have been presumptuously ethnocentric.

The ancient world assigned a value to divinely approved order similar to the value we assign to human rights.

Language itself is a cultural convention, and since the Bible and other ancient documents use language to communicate, they are bound to a culture.

we cannot translate their cosmology to our cosmology, nor should we. If we accept Genesis 1 as ancient cosmology, then we need to interpret it as ancient cosmology rather than translate it into modern cosmology. If we try to turn it into modern cosmology, we are making the text say something that it never said.

As we begin our study of Genesis 1 then, we must be aware of the danger that lurks when we impose our own cultural ideas on the text without thinking. The Bible's message must not be subjected to cultural imperialism. Its message transcends the culture in which it originated, but the form in which the message was imbedded was fully permeated by the ancient culture. This was God's design and we ignore it at our peril.

PTL was more Pentecostal than fundamentalist. Pentecostals have a better sense of how a culture feels than how a society works.

A dead cow or sheep lying in a pasture is recognized as carrion. The same sort of a carcass dressed and hung up in a butcher's stall passes as food.