3,162 Quotes About Culture

Life is, in itself and forever, shipwreck. To be shipwrecked is not to drown. The poor human being, feeling himself sinking into the abyss, moves his arms to keep afloat. This movement of the arms which is his reaction against his own destruction is culture - a swimming stroke...

I do this because we have always done this. I do this in a way beyond religion. I do this in a way of culture

We have a place in our brain that's always worried about what people think of us, especially higher ups. As far as our brain is concerned, if our social system rejects us, we could die. Given that our sense of danger is so natural and automatic, organizations have to do some pretty special things to overcome that natural trigger.

We tend to mistrust our own natures, as if uncontrolled we'd be freaky, dangerous, hateful, unacceptable, or at best, dull. I think in our culture we fear wisdom.

Do not expect me to keep my mouth shut about human rights abusers and their abuses in the interests of not criticising their ‘culture’. If their culture promotes the abuse of human rights and elevates one group above another at the expense of equality and democracy, then they represent a culture of human rights abuse. One cannot please everybody, so I intend to stand for those on the receiving end of abuses, not those trying to wash themselves clean in human blood.

Idolatrous frenzy, Is that something like traditional religion?" asks Bangs."Yeah it is," says Sweetie. "I'm a pagan Catholic. Moving on?

L'histoire des idées n'est pas nécessairement superposable à l'histoire des sciences. Mais comme les savants mènent leur vie d'hommes dans un milieu et un entourage non exclusivement scientifiques, l'histoire des sciences ne peut négliger l'histoire des idées. Appliquant à une thèse sa propre conclusion, on pourrait dire que les déformations qu'elle subit dans le milieu de culture en peuvent révéler la signification essentielle.

Like Victorian anthropologists, key players in the war on terror approached the Other as living fossils, as stuck in the past. For me, one of the most telling remarks confirming this mindset comes from a colonel in the US Army. ‘In Western Iraq, it’s like it was six centuries ago with the Bedouins in their goat hair tents.

Les inégalités devant la culture ne sont nulle part aussi marquées que dans le domaine où, en l'absence d'un enseignement organisé, les comportements culturels obéissent aux déterminismes sociaux plus qu'à la logique des goûts et des engouements individuels.