52 Quotes by Edward T. Hall

For him to have understood me would have meant reorganizing his thinking... giving up his intellectual ballast, and few people are willing to risk such a radical move.

Shakespeare reveals human nature brilliantly: he shines a light on our instinctive desire to dominate each other.

The reason man does not experience his true cultural self is that until he experiences another self as valid he has little basis for validating his own self.

Behind every piece of paper lies a human situation.

Theatre is about people, not buildings. Incalculable damage has been done to the expert talent a company needs - from wardrobe to lighting technicians.

Culture is not made up but something that evolves which is human.

The information is in the people, not in your head.

We should never denigrate any other culture but rather help people to understand the relationship between their own culture and the dominant culture. When you understand another culture or language, it does not mean that you have to lose your own culture.

Each organism, no matter how simple or complex, has around it a sacred bubble of space, a bit of mobile territoriality which only a few other organisms are allowed to penetrate and then only for short periods of time.