Cultural Quotes
Cultural Quote of the day
We may have all come on different ships, but we're in the same boat now.
Whether born from experience or inherent physiological or cultural differences...our gender and national origins may and will make a difference in our judging.
The key to community is the acceptance, in fact the celebration of our individual and cultural differences. It is also the key to world peace
People from different cultures have different definitions for beauty. Isn't that sad to judge others with our standards... rather than appreciate them?
How can you defy fear? Fear is a human instinct, just like hunger. Whether you like it or not, you become hungry. Similarly with fear. But I have learned to train myself to live with this fear.
A talent for speaking differently, rather than for arguing well is the chief instrument of cultural change.
There are cultural issues everywhere - in Bangladesh, Latin America, Africa, wherever you go. But somehow when we talk about cultural differences, we magnify those differences.
If we are looking for signs of democratization, then surely we are looking as well for forms of living on equal terms in and among cultural differences.
Any social or cultural change has to be made openly and with people agreeing. You don't get there by just pushing an outsider's point of view.
...there is still a need for those of us nestled deep within the Christian bubble to look beyond the status quo and critically assess the degree to which we are really living biblically.
The only bright feature of cultural relativism's triumph is that it has become establishment orthodoxy and will thus one day be derided, resisted and overthrown.
As polarized as we have been, we Americans are locked in a cultural war for the soul of our country.
Poetry, like jazz, is one of those dazzling diamonds of creative industry that help human beings make sense out of the comedies and tragedies that contextualize our lives.
Feminism means something - legislation, cultural change - but 'Girl Power' meant nothing more than being friends with your friends.
What can oppose the decline of the west is not a resurrected culture but the utopia that is silently contained in the image of its decline.
...discussing cultural relativism with cultural relativists is like playing tennis with some guy who says, "Your ace is just a social construct.
Any understanding of social and cultural change is impossible without a knowledge of the way media work as environments.
Cities with a black middle class provide the narrow minded an opportunity to realize that cultural differences are largely economic.
While it is important to be aware of and sensitive to cultural differences when conducting business internationally, the principles of transparency, trust, and partnership are universal.
I do think that there are cultural differences in the extent to which we value having more and more choice.
The cultural differences between Germany and Nigeria were extreme. The way they dress, the way they carry themselves, their religion. For two years I was overwhelmed.
We travel to see beautiful places and to meet great souls.
It has become a cultural norm in Jewish families for parents to bring up their children to value wealth.
I love the different shades of colours. Purely beautiful!
No matter how long a log of wood remains in the river it does not become a crocodile
Most of my important lessons about life have come from recognizing how others from a different culture view things.
To challenge humanism in any field, you must possess a uniquely biblical view of God, man, law, and time.
Irish and English are so widely separated in their mode of expression that nothing like a literal rendering from one language to the other is possible.
In WASP families, if you don't get along with someone, you have as little to do with them as possible. In Jewish families, you move next door, to make them as miserable as possible.
My father insisted I eat red meat. 'You'll lose your brain without food, ' he said. A meal to him without beef was starvation.
Cheese, where you takes liquid from a cow lady's business parts, mix it with a bit o' juices from a baby cow's fourth stomach and then let it grow all fuzzy-moldy for a few years, eh?
9/11 forced us to build another identity, to look deep and say who are we and what do we believe and is killing in the name of Islam part of that religion?No. No. No.
It is not easy to be stranded between two worlds, the sad truth is that we can never feel completely comfortable in either world
Social and cultural history is often comprised of whatever diaries and letters remain and that is down to chance and wide open to interpretation.
The dictator’s black hand hadmade China a birdcage wrapped in red flags.--From "Balloons
No, no, my friend. You are kind, and you mean well, but you can never understand these things as I do. You've never been oppressed.
There’s no standard career path to becoming a deconstructor of wrongness,
The unschooled European mind, inclined to rational reduction, to pigeonholing and simplification, readily pushes everything African into a single bag and is content with facile stereotypes.
You can no longer see or identify yourself solely as a member of a tribe, but as a citizen of a nation of one people working toward a common purpose.
Beneath all this he is able to identify as well the dangers of a humanism which shuts out the humane and transcendent horizons and can threaten a new form of the dark night of the soul.
Cultural heritage define the uniqueness of individuals. Appreciate cultural diversity.
A phenomenon that might seem only backwards or silly when expressed at a social level becomes madness at the individual level.