3,162 Quotes About Culture

Becoming 'color blind' isn't helpful. Who you are matters, how you are matters. Things like race and culture are a manifestation of flows of creation. Your identity doesn't just matter, without it your soul can't interact with the world. The key is we need to understand that all races, ethnic groups, cultures and like treasures are equal and we must remember to follow our soul rather than our identity. The identity is something the soul works through, not the other way around.

It's not a crime to offend others; in fact, it's pretty much a natural consequence of having diverse cultures. We live in a world full of people with different backgrounds, interests, and values, and we must learn to accept that there will be clashes. As long as the differences do no harm, we should back off and accept them.

These outlanders are peculiar, aren’t they?"Longbow smiled faintly. "They seem to think that we’re the peculiar ones. Their lives are very complicated, but we try our best to keep everything simple. I’m not sure exactly why, but that seems to offend them for some reason.

A conservative culture will resist change and treat progress as a virus

Culture is a virus. It distorts your view of the world and destroys your capacity to think independently.

Other sovereign democratic states have central governments more corrupted other than our own, but most can fall back on unifying elements we lack: common ethnicity, a shared religion, or near-universal consensus on many fundamental political issues. The United States needs its central government to function cleanly, openly, and efficiently because it's one of the few things binding us together.

It's not a crime to offend others; in fact, it's pretty much a natural consequence of having diverse cultures. We live in a world full of people with different backgrounds, interests, and values, and we must learn to accept that there will be clashes. As long as the differences do no harm, we should back off and accept them

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Хіба всю мудрість не варто віддати за однісінький шматочок невеличкого поганенького пориву? Мудрість шкідлива, коли не служити пориву... Це зрозуміло, і це трагедія! Щоб жити, треба знати, а знання вбиває. Людськість хитається між дикунством і культурою. А їх треба поєднати, не протиставити! Мудрість, де не бринить тонкий відгомін голодного вию й поклику на самицю — є мудрість смерти...