61 Quotes About Other-cultures


  • Author Thor Heyerdahl
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    This world has seen a great many civilizations. And many of them have survived for longer periods than ours up to the present. They were all as sure as we are today of having founded the first eternal civilization. We today differ from them in having our western civilization spread to embrace the entire planet, leaving no room on any continent for any other culture to take over if we fail.

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  • Author Abbas Kiarostami
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    I wasn't searching for a common denominator - I started wondering about the challenge of working in other cultures. What I reached was the sudden acknowledgment of the universal aspect of filmmaking.

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  • Author Ben Kingsley
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    You don't go to a town to present the play and have applause at the end of it, but that's benign conquest. It's a glorious way of exploring other landscapes and other cultures in a very life-affirming way.

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  • Author Maynard James Keenan
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    If you take different mythologies from different cultures, the names may change and the story lines may vary but there is always something in common.

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  • Author Vaclav Klaus
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    And finally, there is another danger: the emergence of nonideological but very aggressive 'isms,' which are really quite new. Let me at least name them: We all care about human rights, but I am afraid of 'human rightism.' We all want to have a healthy environment, but I see the danger in environmentalism. To put it politically correctly, I admire the second gender, but I fear feminism. We all are enriched by other cultures, but not by multiculturalism. I am aware of the importance of voluntary associations, but I fear NGOism.

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  • Author Bruno Latour
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    Scientists are very much entangled in their culture and this culture is not pristine, untouched by other cultures and practices.

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  • Author Dalai Lama
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    When I meet people from other cultures I know that they too want happiness and do not want suffering, this allows me to see them as brothers and sisters.

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