3,162 Quotes About Culture

We need encouragement, not sermonizing, and we need clear-eyed acknowledgement of the situation, not a sanctified gloss that pushes us toward saying, 'I see I must not admit my pain because, after all, I'm a Christian. I'll just have to cover it up.

No one chooses which culture to be born into or can be blamed for how that culture evolved in past centuries.

If we are going to live with our deepest differences then we must learn about one another.

I was persisting in reading my present environment in the light of my old one.

Art is the bridge across the gap between peoples and cultures. Writing is one of the arts that can help link people.

Litterature provides us with the opportunity to escape into fictional worlds that are ultimately rooted in human universals shaped by common biological forces.

Although Martin Luther's theological message was couched as an exhortation to all Christian people, his frame of reference, the human experiences on which he drew and his emotional sympathies, or almost entirely German.

Working in Britain, particularly in the public services, they should be prepared to accept the terms and conditions of their employment. To claim special communal rights (or should one say rites?) leads to a dangerous fragmentation within society. This communalism is a canker; whether practised by one colour or another it is to be strongly condemned.

His plain, undecorated, and utilitarian work reeked week of provincialism.