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Cultures Quotes
Our incapacity to comprehend other cultures stems from our insistence on measuring things in our own terms. - Arthur Erickson Quotes
When certain branches of the economy become obsolete, as in the case of the steel industry, not only do jobs disappear, which is obviously a terrible social hardship, but certain cultures also disappear. - Peter L Berger Quotes
Ive been traveling all over the world for 25 years, performing, talking to people, studying their cultures and musical instruments, and I always come away with more questions in my head than can be answered. - Yo Yo Ma Quotes
I plead for conservation of human culture, which is much more fragile than nature herself. We neednt destroy other cultures with the force of our own. - Arthur Erickson Quotes
I think you learn a lot about a country from its art. To me, its part of the drama of life. It teaches you that there are places, moments and incidents in other cultures that genuinely have a life of their own. - Michael Palin Quotes
Some of the substance of English words, I just dont understand at all because the cultures so strange to me. - Chow Yun Fat Quotes
Cultures essential service to a religion is to destroy intellectual idolatry, the recurrent tendency in religion to replace the object of its worship with its present understanding and forms of approach to that object. - Northrop Frye Quotes
So Its really about characters and sub cultures again. About gypsies and things that I couldnt squeeze in the last one, I stuck in on this one. - Guy Ritchie Quotes
Peace Corps helps promote global acceptance of the principles of international peace and non-violent co-existence among people of diverse cultures and systems of government. - Sam Farr Quotes
Exclusively oral cultures are unencumbered by dead knowledge, dead facts. Libraries, on the other hand, are full of them. - Huston Smith Quotes
Historians will have to face the fact that natural selection determined the evolution of cultures in the same manner as it did that of species. - Konrad Lorenz Quotes
The world has become more complex as technology and easy travel mixes cultures without homogenizing them. - Norman Spinrad Quotes
The Jews are trying to destroy all other cultures - as a survival mechanism - the only Nazi country in the world is Israel. - David Duke Quotes
Cultures worth huge, huge risks. Without culture were all totalitarian beasts. - Norman Mailer Quotes
So Ive never found there was any particular separation between the two cultures at all, musically speaking. - Neville Marriner Quotes
Respecting other peoples cultures is well and good, but I draw the line at where some branches of Islam, what they do to women. Its indefensible. - Jello Biafra Quotes
The marriage of a man and woman is the most enduring human institution, honored in all cultures and by every religious faith. Its in this institution that children are meant to be nurtured. We know this after thousands of years of human experience. - Jeff Miller Quotes
I certainly cant speak for all cultures or all societies, but its clear that in America, poetry serves a very marginal purpose. Its not part of the cultural mainstream. - Mark Strand Quotes
Science, for hundreds of years, has spanned the differences between cultures and between countries. - Laurel Clark Quotes
Theres an assumption in many of these cultures that these children are mentally retarded, when in fact theyre not at all. I saw how the operation affects the child, as well as the childs family and often the village. - Roma Downey Quotes
Xenophobia manifests itself especially against civilizations and cultures that are weak because they lack economic resources, means of subsistence or land. So nomadic people are the first targets of this kind of aggression. - Antonio Tabucchi Quotes
Two thousand years ago, we lived in a world of Gods and Goddesses. Today, we live in a world solely of Gods. Women in most cultures have been stripped of their spiritual power. - Dan Brown Quotes
If we ever start communicating with living creatures from other planets, the number one priority is, how are you going to communicate information? Even between different cultures here on Earth, you get into communication problems. - Story Musgrave Quotes
I try to support groups that are about educating people about different races, different religions, different cultures and different situations so that we can break down the barriers of prejudice and bigotry. - Loretta Sanchez Quotes
The Treatise tries to analyze not only modern Western families, but also those in other cultures and the changes in family structure during the past several centuries. - Gary Becker Quotes
I think that the Japanese culture is one of the very few cultures left that is its own entity. Theyre just so traditional and so specific in their ways. Its kind of untouched, its not Americanized. - Toni Collette Quotes
In microbiology the roles of mutation and selection in evolution are coming to be better understood through the use of bacterial cultures of mutant strains. - Edward Lawrie Tatum Quotes
Ive always enjoyed traveling and having experience with different cultures and different people. But its also a wonderful thing to be able to benefit and enable research, not only in our country but around the world. - Laurel Clark Quotes
Our working hypothesis is that the status of knowledge is altered as societies enter what is known as the postindustrial age and cultures enter what is known as the postmodern age. - Jean Francois Lyotard Quotes
The truth is that our way of celebrating the Christmas season does spring from myriad cultures and sources, from St. Nicholas to Coca-Cola advertising campaigns. - Richard Roeper Quotes
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