Cultures Quotes

• Liberalism is the party of upstarts who have insinuated themselves between the people and its big men. Liberals feel themselves as isolated individuals, responsible to nobody. They do not share the nation’s traditions, they are indifferent to its past and have no ambition for its future. They seek only their own personal advantage in the present. Their dream is the great International, in which the differences of peoples and languages, races and cultures will be obliterated.

  

  Arthur Moeller van den Bruck
  • Traditions
  • Liberalism
  • Obliterated

• I think, in a way, I've returned to who I used to be as a global correspondent whose life was devoted to really making a difference, illuminating what's happening in the world, always drawn toward the suffering of peoples and cultures and exposing exploitation and injustice; but now I'm the same person in a much, much softer iteration.

  

  Brad Williams
  • Suffering
  • Injustice
  • Devoted

• I do not want my house to be rounded by walls and my windows to be closed to other cultures. I wish to become familiar with the culture of lands as much as possible but I will not permit them to affect me or shake me from my own status.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Cultures
  • Windows
  • Lands

• You know, I believe things happen when the time comes. I have worked hard and lovingly and this is a lifetime's reward. I cannot be anything but grateful. Discovering the world, different cultures and people -- I feel like a newborn child. To be able to share my feelings through music is simply wonderful.

  

  Ibrahim Ferrer Afro-Cuban All Stars
  • People
  • Time
  • World

• In studying other cultures, we learn more about ourselves and our relationship to all things in this world.

  

  Eustace Conway
  • Relationship
  • Cultures
  • Studying

• Some people today claim that cultures rooted in oral tradition are far more careful to make certain that traditions that are told and retold are not changed significantly. This turns out to be a modern myth, however. Anthropologists who have studied oral cultures show that just the opposite is the case. Only literary cultures have a concern for exact replication of the facts “as they really are.” And this is because in literary cultures, it is possible to check the sources to see whether someone has changed a story. In oral cultures, it is widely expected that stories will indeed change—they change anytime a storyteller is telling a story in a new context. New contexts require new ways of telling stories. Thus, oral cultures historically have seen no problem with altering accounts as they were told and retold.

  

  Bart Ehrman
  • Change
  • Tradition
  • Myth

• I claim to represent all the cultures, for my religion, whatever it may be called, demands the fulfillment of all the cultures.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Religion
  • Cultures
  • Represent

• Repetition yields constants. Constants create cultures.

  

  Dan T. Cathy
  • Cultures
  • Repetition
  • Constants

• I’ve always tried to insert consciousness and spirituality in my records, interpreting the writings of all cultures and religions and how they apply to life in modern times

  

  William Michael Griffin Jr.
  • Records
  • Religions
  • Cultures

• We have diverse cultures and diverse audiences coming to see films. We are working hard not to repeat ourselves and to have the festival be something that the audiences and the industry feel belongs to them.

  

  Jane Rosenthal
  • Films
  • Audiences
  • Diverse

• It is important to note that we did not emerge into patriarchal religion from a dark, chaotic, immature period of primitivism; Goddess-centered cultures, including Minoan Crete, were highly evolved.

  

  Charlene Spretnak
  • Evolved
  • Goddess-centered
  • Minoan Crete

• In all cultures, it is the task of a religion to close the field of contingency ...and to set up havens of the absolute where it is possible to be led from acting to listening, from having to being, from planning to hoping, from judging to forgiving from the finite into the infinite. A society in which such open spaces of eternity do not exist or are only insufficiently developed dies of itself due to lack of air to breathe.

  

  Eugen Drewermann
  • Religion
  • Breathe
  • Judging

• Twentieth-century culture's disease is the inability to feel their reality. People cluster to TV, soap operas, movies, theater, pop idols and they have wild emotion over symbols. But in the reality of their own lives, they're emotionally dead.

  

  Jim Morrison The Doors
  • Reality
  • Disease
  • Inability

• My feeling about seeing the world is that its going to change you necessarily, just the very fact of being out there and meeting people from different cultures and different ways of life.

  

  Ewan McGregor
  • Change
  • Cultures
  • Different Ways

• To go back to my childhood, I experienced lots of different family cultures, all the while feeling like none of them were mine.

  

  Lily King
  • Different
  • Family
  • Feeling

• I was watching an HBO special on eating habits and different cultures, and they showed in China how people eat cats ... I happened to be sitting on the couch with my cat, and once I saw that, it just put everything in perspective.

  

  Ben Kenney Incubus
  • Cultures
  • HBO
  • Eating Habits

• It's difficult sometimes when you have somebody who is of a different culture trying to make light of something that is maybe not quite something that they understand.

  

  Michael Chang
  • Trying
  • Light
  • Sometimes

• I enjoy living life and I enjoy going to different restaurants and eating my way through a country and going to different museums and learning about different cultures.

  

  Mila Kunis
  • Life
  • Enjoy
  • Restaurants

• The human community and individual people are more likely to hurt or undernourish children they think of as 'bodies' to be used. Cultures and people are more likely to raise children to be mere economic interns rather than fully developed humans if they see children as 'bodies' to be forced into certain economic and social molds.

  

  Michael Gurian
  • Children
  • Human Community
  • Molds

• For some reason I seem to absorb the landscape and cultures where I am planted. A State Divided Symphony was inspired by the 150th anniversary of Missouri's entry into the Civil War.

  

  Barbara Harbach
  • Inspired
  • Landscape
  • Civil War

• The most beautiful part is the traveling, and getting to know different cultures and different types of people and to perform in very, very important venues in each country.

  

  Alfonso Herrera
  • People
  • Cultures
  • Traveling

• My parents' work ethic amazed me. How could they put in such long hours, day after day? Part of the reason was to keep the family going - to keep me going. I realized that, although we had different values derived from different cultures and wouldn't agree on certain issues, they were good people, incredible people, and I loved and respected them.

  

  Harvey Pekar
  • Values
  • Parents' work
  • Certain issues

• Kira watched them talk and noticed how they quickly fell into the easy give-and-take of Starfleet-trained information exchange. It was a skill she had always admired in Sisko,  Jadzia, O’Brien, and Julian, but hadn’t imagined it extended to all Starfleet officers, even former ones like Ro. Klingons don’t do this, she mused. Or the Romulans or the Cardassians.  They have their own methods, their own martial cultures, but nothing that can compete with this. Ro

  

  S. D. Perry
  • Cultures
  • Imagined
  • Exchange

• Thatcher knew nothing of the European customs and cultures with which we were allied...

  

  Brian Sewell
  • Cultures
  • Customs

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