3,162 Quotes About Culture

It is a wise man who, when his spouse asks, "How does this look?" can answer honestly without upsetting her.

While the United States is becoming the most culturally diverse nation in the world, less than 5.5% of Christian congregations are multiethnic.

The vast majority of people are unthinking prejudice machines.

ناهنجارى ها و زشتى هاى شهرهاى ما علامت پاشيدگى وخيمى است كه ريشه اش در فضاى ويرانه ى درون ماست. مغول خراب كرد، ولى ايرانى بر روى آن ويرانه ها يكى از درخشان ترين دوره ى معمارى را پديد آورد؛ اما اين بار ايرانى ساخته هاى نياكانش را به خواست خود نابود مى كند و به جاى آن، جعبه هاى بى قواره مى سازد.

You don’t go on bended-knee to petition the official culture for your rights. You have to take them.

War is the worst way of gathering knowledge about a foreign culture.

God bestows great gifts on human beings with perfect justice, but not All gifts we are given come from God. Some gifts come from society or culture, and it is here that problems develop.

Ultimately, culture, secular and otherwise, is a collection of survival strategies. The things that look like decoration—poetry, novels, music, dancing—if you strip away all the layers, are mechanisms for coping, surviving, understanding.

توريست عامل آلودگى فرهنگى است: موزه ها را براى او مى سازند، معبدها را براى او به نمايش مى گذارند، مقدسات را براى او بى سيرت مى كنند. سرگرمى آخرين وجه تنزّل يك فرهنگ است كه خود را در جهت ارضاى كنجكاوى توريست به نمايش مى گذارد.