Top 1200 Cultures Of The World Quotes & Sayings - Page 6

Multiculturalism is based on the lie that all cultures are morally equal.

The people and the cultures of what is known as Africa are older than the word 'Africa.' According to most records, old and new, Africans are the oldest people on the face of the earth. The people now called Africans not only influenced the Greeks and the Romans, they influenced the early world before there was a place called Europe.

Creating harmony amidst diversity is a fundamental issue of the twenty-first century. While celebrating the unique characteristics of different peoples and cultures, we have to create solidarity on the level of our common humanity, our common life. Without such solidarity, there will be no future for the human race. Diversity should not beget conflict in the world, but richness.

Stories build cultures by answering the big questions.

People who don't have stories in their cultures go nuts.

Cultures that don't laugh at themselves are cults.

I got exposed to so many different cultures and people.

I find a difference between what gets called world music - a fusion of western music and music from different cultures in more of a modernized version - and Explorer Series stuff, which is completely undiluted indigenous folk music. That's a lot more powerful than a lot of the super-processed stuff that comes out now.

'Vogue' should be about giving a voice to all different cultures.

In shamanic cultures, sychronicities are recognized as signs that you are on the right path.

He who cherishes the value of cultures cannot fail to be a pacifist.

My most fundamental hope is for a worldwide attitude of tolerance, which will only come through education and an awareness of other cultures and religions. The more people are exposed to other philosophies and thoughts, the more possible it becomes to resolve world conflicts peacefully. Education builds tolerance for other points of view.

For all the casual slurs about 'cultural imperialism', British imperialists were more interested in other cultures than anybody before or since, and, if they hadn't dug it up and taken care of it, we'd know hardly anything about the ancient world. What's important about a nation's past is not what it keeps walled up in the museum but what it keeps outside, living and breathing as every citizen's inheritance.

Christians are called to redeem entire cultures, not just individuals.

Probably all cultures, certainly Western culture, always have been violent.

Cultures, for better or worse, are very stable.

I think that cinema and the arts are central in our lives because we grow up and learn about the world through our exposure to stories. Parents use them as a tool to teach their children fundamental truths and values, much as adults can view them to gain exposure to cultures and individuals that they'd never be able to view in their own lives.

I don't think you lose culture because you act different cultures.

Growing up in Virginia, I was surrounded by two different cultures.

The Taj Mahal is a monument to love in all cultures.

All my life, I have juggled two cultures: Senegalese and French.

America's a melting pot, all races, cultures, religious choices.

Books give us insight into other people, other cultures. They make us laugh. They make us think. If they are really good, they make us believe that we are better for having read them. You don't read a book - you experience it. Every story opens up a new world.

Western civilization is the most successful civilization the world has ever seen. And some of the reasons for that is it's borrowed from other cultures along the way, back to Mosaic law, the Greek age of reason, Roman law and the Roman order of government, and the Republican form of government, by the way that we're guaranteed in our constitution.

Zakath's face grew thoughtful. "You know something, Garion?" he said. "Man thinks he owns the world, but we share it with all sorts of creatures who are indifferent to our overlordship. They have their own societies, and I supposed even their own cultures. They don't even pay attention to us, do you?" "Only when we inconvenience them...It teaches us humility," Garion agreed.

Trade is a communication of cultures and values.

I understand different cultures because I have travelled a lot.

I've lived so many different Asian cultures.

I would love to study cultures and people.

I'm a woman of color, but I have so many different cultures inside of me.

It's important for me to be immersed in all cultures. I'm an actress.

I affirm, along with many others, that the major enduring religions of the world are all valid and legitimate. I see them as the responses to the experience of God in the various cultures in which each originated. To be Christian means to find the decisive revelation of God in Jesus. To be Muslim means to find the decisive revelation of God in the Koran.

I think I live inside the plane! I never have time to unpack; I'm always leaving in two days again. I travel a lot, and at the beginning it was really fun. The first time I went inside a plane, I was 15 years old and I had so much fun. I like to travel all over the world and learn [about] new cultures. Not that many people have the opportunity to do that.

Everybody has different cultures in the National Football League.

In the 1970s, we got a Labor government that put more emphasis on trade with Asia; the Vietnam war ended, and refugees were coming in. We were more part of Asia than America and the rest of the world. There was the proximity, for a start - all these countries and cultures just north of us. It just made sense that that's what we were part of.

Cultures aren’t so much planned as they evolve from that early set of people.

I just couldn't live without other cultures' cuisines.

We like to learn about cultures when we make movies.

Sales-driven cultures can really differentiate you from the majority of the competition.

Sometimes the cultures phobia of religion borders on the absurd.

All cultures are capable of democracy and liberalism. Everybody wants to be free.

OneBeat is one of the greatest initiatives in advancing the meeting of cultures worldwide.

Ivory towers are as rare as bowling alleys in tribal cultures.

There is no alternative to the peaceful coexistence of cultures.

It's a great historical joke that when the Spanish met the Aztecs, it was a blind date made in serve-you-right heaven. At the time, they were the two most unpleasant cultures in the entire world, and richly deserved each other. Still, the story of how stout Cortes blustered, bullied and bludgeoned his way to collapsing an entire empire with a handful of contagious hoodlums is astonishing.

The basic idea of 'The Venture Brothers' was taking the world of 'Jonny Quest' and jumping back into 30 years later, seeing how someone who grew up like Jonny - with that kind of space race enthusiasm and disregard for other cultures - would turn out. Dr. Venture is a boy genius who didn't grow up to be what he should have been.

Intellect doesn't translate across cultures; intuition does.

Tobias Buckell combines old world with new in his novel CRYSTAL RAIN. While the rich cultures, drawn in part from Caribbean history and lore, echo a familiar landscape, he brings it out of the Earth milieu and into a bold new universe where technology and tradition collide. I enjoyed his colorful characters and musical use of language; his voice is fresh and entirely readable.

Tremendous interest in the superficial is very characteristic of cultures in decline.

We are yet to have a conscience at all about the exploitation of human cultures.

I have a lot of cultures within me - I'm basically chop suey.

To keep up the purity of the Race and its culture, Germany shocked the world by her purging the country of the Semitic races--the Jews. Race pride at its highest has been manifested here. Germany has also shown how well nigh impossible it is for Races and cultures, having differences going to the root, to be assimilated into one united whole, a good lesson for us in Hindusthan to learn and profit by.

The man who is seeking truth is free of all societies and cultures.

I'm Italian, so I absorb other cultures through their food.

England really is at the forefront of being a melting pot of all cultures.

I like embracing other cultures.

Cultures are virtual realities made of language.

Packed with detailsplendidly depicts passion, brutality, and cultures in conflict.

I've been exposed to so many different cultures.

In the Middle East, the conflict today is a matter of generations and not of cultures.