3,162 Quotes About Culture

It is impossible to examine questions we refuse to ask.

انا غجري. بلدي هي الدنيا بدون حدود، وشعبي هو البشرية بدون عروق، وديني هو حبي لكل العبود، ولغتي هي لسان كل من نطق العطف والحنان على كل الأمور....وصلواتي مع كل من نشد الحب بالقلوب..انا غجري ضائع بين الوحوش...أعطني يدك وانضم معي إلى حرية بلاوعود.......

I am a Jewish mother. My dying words will be, “Put a jumper on

I’ll tell you the difference between our countries. Americans think life is serious but not hopeless; the English that life is hopeless but not serious.

And I'm probably wrong. Maybe not completely, but partially. And maybe not today, but eventually.

The practical reality is that any present-tense version of the world is unstable. What we currently consider to be true--both objectively and subjectively--is habitually provisional.

And the quality all these reasonable failures share is an inability to accept that the statue quo is temporary.

The world happens as it happens, but we construct what we remember and what we forget. And people will eventually do that to us, too.

And if something is only itself, it doesn't particularly matter.