62 Quotes About Culture-critique

  • Author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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    When it comes to dressing well, American culture is so self-fulfilled that it has not only disregarded this courtesy of self-presentation, but has turned that disregard into a virtue. "We are too superior/busy/cool/not-uptight to bother about how we look to other people, and so we can wear pajamas to school and underwear to the mall.

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  • Author Jennifer Steil
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    People have the wrong idea about the hijab,: said Zuhra with a toss of her glossy hair. "I wear it because I respect myself. And when the beauty is hidden the more important things rise to the surface.

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  • Author de Montherlant Henri
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    Il y a désir et désir. Vers le tablao andalou monte un désir qui est l'honneur de la création. Vers la scène du music-hall parisien, monte un désir qui est de la saloperie.

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  • Author Mehmet Murat ildan
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    You were born in a culture and you are given many information about many things; unless you yourself investigate the truth of all these information, do not consider them as true information!

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  • Author Paul Shrader
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    It was fun watching the apple cart being upset," [referring to the demise of traditional, well-written movies without violence or special effects], "but now where do we go for apples?

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  • Author Daniel Quinn
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    The God of revealed religions - and by this I mean religions like yours - is a profoundly inarticulate God. No matter how many times he tries, he can't make himself clearly or completely understood. He speaks for centuries to the Jews, but fails to make himself understood. At last he sends his only-begotten son, and his son can't seem to do any better.

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  • Author Howard Mansfield
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    We have everywhere an absence of memory. Architects sometimes talk of building with context and continuity in mind, religious leaders call it tradition, social workers say it’s a sense of community, but it is memory we have banished from our cities. We have speed and power, but no place. Travel, but no destination. Convenience, but no ease.

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