Quotes About Culture

The British Board of Censors will not pass any seduction scene unless the seducer has one foot on the floor. Apparently sex in England is something like snooker.

A few conclusions become clear when we understand this: that our most cruel failure in how we treat the sick and the aged is the failure to recognize that they have priorities beyond merely being safe and living longer; that the chance to shape one's story is essential to sustaining meaning in life; that we have the opportunity to refashion our institutions, our culture, and our conversations in ways that transform the possibilities for the last chapters of everyone's lives.

Culture has tremendous inertia," he said. "That's why it's culture. It works because it lasts. Culture strangles innovation in the crib.

Forms are the temporal, changing, and negotiable practices that are based on culture and are methods that all churches are free to choose to accomplish their functions.

Culture shapes and influences our life and all of our beliefs. Most people are not aware of the profound influence that culture has on us. But even if we don't realize it, we use culture to order our lives, interpret our experiences, and evaluate behavior. It's our resource for understanding our experiences and making sense of our lives. Since this is largely a mental reflex—an unconscious process

Our cultural presuppositions affect the development of our theology and what we believe about the Bible. Our culture provides a semantic, conceptual framework through which we view God and the Bible. Most of us who are in ministry in evangelical pulpits have been educated under a Western European influence. The institutions where we have trained were heavily influenced by a European system using European theologians

Four Reasons Why Culture Is Important • It profoundly shapes and influences our life and all our beliefs. • It affects the development of our theology and what we believe about the Bible. • It affects the way we conduct our ministries in the church. • It helps us understand better the different people we seek to reach for Christ.

Traditional definitions of culture usually include such elements as people's thoughts, beliefs, values, speech, actions, and artifacts (man-made objects). These all fall under people's beliefs and actions. Therefore, I define culture as the sum total of what people believe and how they act on their beliefs.

Today's churches must realize that Jesus, his disciples, and the early church didn't have any problem attracting men. They developed a culture that included such characteristics as challenge (Matt. 4:18–19), commitment (v. 20), conviction (Acts 20:22–24), and risk (Acts 4:29), as well as a number of other qualities that likely attracted men.

When we create out of our experiences, as feminists of color, women of color, we have to develop those structures that will present and circulate our culture.

Paris is always a good idea.

Jazz in itself is not struggling. That is, the music itself is not struggling... It's the attitude that's in trouble. My plays insist that we should not forget or toss away our history.

History is a pageant and not a philosophy.

a maior loucura é viver sem um sentido existencial. Sem sentido, vivemos por viver, a vida não tem brilho, o caos não nos amadurece, a cultura não nos remete à sabedoria. Sem propósito, a mesa, por mais farta que seja, nutre o corpo, mas deixa faminta a alma. Sem propósito, vivemos num campo de concentração mental, ainda que rodeados por jardins. Não tenha medo de morrer em Auschwitz, tenha medo de viver uma existência sem sentido.

You have not yet destroyed oral tradition only because it is the one language that cannot be sacked, robbed, repeated, plagiarized, copied. What is spoken remains alive.

America is great because it has as much diversity in geographies as it does in peoples.

Some had Walkmen

You white people are so strange. We think it is very primitive for a child to have only two parents.

Those who lose dreaming are lost.

Create the kind of climate in your organization where personal growth is expected, recognized and rewarded.

My accent was as Tarheel as it gets. That's incomprehensible to anyone who lives more than two whoops and a holler outside of the state of North Carolina.

Countries, sovereignty, citizenship, and laws are all social constructions: abstractions invented by humans.

In broad terms, culture may be viewed as the symbolic construction of the vast array of a social group's life experiences. Culture is the embodiment, the chronicle of a group's history

This was an infidel country, whose way of life we Muslims were supposed to oppose and reject. Why was it, then, so much better run, better led, and made for such better lives than the places we came from? Shouldn't the places where Allah was worshipped and His laws obeyed have been at peace and wealthy, and the unbelievers' countries ignorant, poor, and at war?