3,162 Quotes About Culture

Let those of us in our churches not sit in judgment of the world, however, for all too often, we are the world, sharing in our culture’s since and failures. Remember, it was because of Jonah and not the pagan sailors that the storm blew on the sea! Too often we are blind to our own darkness. We criticize the world for calling darkness, but perhaps we do the same.

Kiedyś odcinek, teraz płaszczyzna, czas więc na przestrzeń. Kulturę podałem tutaj przykładowo. Ale właśnie kulturze dobrze by zrobiło, gdyby myślano o niej w kategoriach przestrzennych. Chyba że przestanie być dla urzędników abstrakcją. Ale w to jakoś trudno mi uwierzyć.

If Irish or Italian culture dies in America it really isn't that big a deal. They will still exist in Italy and Ireland. Not so with us. There is no other place. North America is our old country.

During the first millennium BCE, even the beer-loving Mesopotamians turned their backs on beer, which was dethroned as the most cultured and civilized of drinks, and the age of wine began.

To acknowledge our ancestors means we are aware that we did not make ourselves...We remember them because it is an easy thing to forget: that we are not the first to suffer, rebel, fight, love, and die.

When a lot of money comes along before culture arrives, we get the phenomenon of the gold telephone. And when I say culture I don’t mean academic knowledge, I mean information: information about what is happening in the world, about the things that make life interesting.

[...] most people don’t do what we tell them to. They do what we let them get away with.

[...] culture is as much about what we encourage as what we actually permit.

While one lives in a foreign country, language's main function is as a means of self-protection and a weapon in one's fight with the world. You can't fight without a weapon. But perhaps its human instinct that makes it even more imperative to somehow express oneself, convey meaning, connect with others.