Culture quotations

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◆ The downfall of the attempts of governments and leaders to unite mankind is found in this- in the wrong message that we should see everyone as the same. This is the root of the failure of harmony. Because the truth is, we should not all see everyone as the same! We are not the same! We are made of different colours and we have different cultures. We are all different! But the key to this door is to look at these differences, respect these differences, learn from and about these differences, and grow in and with these differences. We are all different. We are not the same. But that's beautiful. And that's okay.In the quest for unity and peace, we cannot blind ourselves and expect to be all the same. Because in this, we all have an underlying belief that everyone should be the same as us at some point. We are not on a journey to become the same or to be the same. But we are on a journey to see that in all of our differences, that is what makes us beautiful as a human race, and if we are ever to grow, we ought to learn and always learn some more.

- C. JoyBell C.99

◆ To be or not to be that is the question.

- William Shakespeare99

◆ The decay and disintegration of this culture is astonishingly amusing if you are emotionally detached from it. I have always viewed it from a safe distance, knowing I don't belong; it doesn't include me, and it never has. no matter how you care to define it, I do not identify with the local group. Planet, species, race, nation, state, religion, party, union, club, association, neighborhood improvement committee; I have no interest in any of it. I love and treasure individuals as I meet them, I loathe and despise the groups they identify with and belong to.

- George Carlin99

◆ One cannot expect positive results from an educational or political action program which fails to respect the particular view of the world held by the people. Such a program constitutes cultural invasion, good intentions notwithstanding.

- Paulo Freire99

◆ They stared at each other, wanting each other, drawn to each other, but their silent shout of love went unheard in the roar of misunderstanding, and the clatter of culturally ingrained beliefs.

- Jean M. Auel99

◆ The shared meal elevates eating from a mechanical process of fueling the body to a ritual of family and community, from the mere animal biology to an act of culture.

- Michael Pollan99

◆ Yo no soy mexicano. Yo no soy gringo. Yo no soy chicano. No soy gringo en USA y mexicano en Mexico. Soy chicano en todas partes. No tengo que asimilarme a nada. Tengo mi propia historia.

- Carlos Fuentes99

◆ A cultural fixation on female thinness is not an obsession about female beauty but an obsession about female obedience.

- Naomi Wolf99

◆ Even the models we see in magazines wish they could look like their own images.

- Cheri K. Erdman99

◆ A woman made of parts is a dangerous thing. You never know when she'll throw away a piece you may need.

- Heidi W. Durrow99

◆ Keep your language. Love its sounds, its modulation, its rhythm. But try to march together with men of different languages, remote from your own, who wish like you for a more just and human world.

- Hélder Camara99

◆ A good newspaper, I suppose, is a nation talking to itself.

- Arthur Miller99

◆ No two languages are ever sufficiently similar to be considered as representing the same social reality. The worlds in which different societies live are distinct worlds, not merely the same world with different labels attached.

- Amy Tan99

◆ We are our culture and tradition; if there is no culture or tradition we are no one.

- Tamerlan Kuzgov99

◆ The mission is to bring Christ to the culture.

- Kirk Franklin99