3,162 Quotes About Culture
- Author Saminu Kanti
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There's one country that can be trusted to understand the complexity of history, it's Nigeria.
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- Author Kilroy J. Oldster
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When our environment changes we change, and this combination of transformative deeds create a synergistic effect. Seemingly, insignificant and imperceptible quantitative changes can eventfully lead to fundamental qualitative changes in the way a group of people function as a society.
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- Author Stanley Hauerwas
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In fact, even Tillich's socialism was accommodationist because it continued the Constantinian strategy: The way to make the church radical is by identifying the church with secular "radicals", that is, socialists.
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- Author Pankaj Gupta
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The way people want to get respect for their culture and language, it is critical to reciprocate the same to other else you don't have any right to condemn others
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- Author Stanley Hauerwas
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On the other hand, activist Christians who talk much about justice promote a notion of justice that envisions a society in which faith in God is rendered quite unnecessary, since everybody already believes in peace and justice even when everybody does not believe in God.
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- Author Milan Kundera
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The first step in liquidating a people,' said Hubl, 'is to erase its memory. Destroy its books, its culture, its history. Then have somebody write new books, manufacture a new culture, invent a new history. Before long the nation will begin to forget what it is and what it was. The world around it will forget even faster.
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- Author Krista Tippett
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That's very important about stories. They touch something that is human in us and is probably unchanging. Perhaps this is why the important knowledge is passed through stories. It's what holds a culture together. Culture has a story, and every person in it participates in that story. They world is made up of stories; it's not made up of facts.
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- Author Pope Francis
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The lack of historical memory is a serious shortcoming in our society. A mentality that can only say, “Then was then, now is now”, is ultimately immature. Knowing and judging past events is the only way to build a meaningful future. Memory is necessary for growth.
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- Author Edgar H. Schein
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Most of my important lessons about life have come from recognizing how others from a different culture view things.
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