The essence of cross-cultural communication has more to do with releasing responses than with sending messages. It is more important to release… — Edward T. Hall Copy Share Image
What is extraordinary is that in the United States the current culture desires feelings of machismo and power, but at the same… — Jaron Lanier Copy Share Image
The artist in all societies has traditionally been a kind of barometer, more sensitive to nuances and changes than others, because he… — Hortense Powdermaker Copy Share Image
And every time the Takers stamp out a Leaver culture, a wisdom ultimately tested since the birth of mankind disappears from the… — Daniel Quinn Copy Share Image
I think Edward Sharpe's music is counter-cultural music in the strangest sense where you have a time now where love, optimism, hope… — Alex Ebert Copy Share Image
Obviously no language is innate. Take any kid from any race, bring them up in any culture and they will learn the… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
I found out a lot of stuff through MTV, and I didn't even have cable, I just saw it at friends' houses.… — Win Butler Copy Share Image
As a lonely teenager growing up in Virginia, I fed off any pop culture that could show me different ways of being… — Jenna Wortham Copy Share Image
Lincoln is such an iconic figure in American history. He seems to reflect so many elements of American culture that we consider… — Eric Foner Copy Share Image
The Arts are fundamental resources through which the world is viewed, meaning is created, and the mind developed. To neglect the contribution… — Elliot W. Eisner Copy Share Image
Who is left in the ghetto is the one man in a thousand in any age, in any culture, who through some… — Leon Uris Copy Share Image
Through panel moderations and talks around culture, politics and identity I gradually gained opportunities to write in my own voice and not… — Michael Salu Copy Share Image
We live in a culture that does not encourage women to be epic heroes of their own Big Stories but the mothers… — Justine Musk Copy Share Image
Modern civilization is largely devoted to the pursuit of the cult of delusion. There is no general information about the nature of… — Sogyal Rinpoche Copy Share Image
It was during those long and lonely years that my hunger for the freedom of our own people became a hunger for… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
I am going in now for interior decoration. By that I mean supplying objets d'art and giving advice regarding the decoration of… — Elsie de Wolfe Copy Share Image
“This is clearly cultural imperialism, which explains why Western culture is, in fact, the sole (main) global culture. Yet, this is consistently… — Sov8840 Copy Share Image
Maharashtrians in America have a Maharashtra mandal every year. You know when they celebrate it? On July 4, the American Independence Day.… — Raj Thackeray Copy Share Image
The idea of the archetypal nerd is totally blurred these days. So many people of this current generation have grown up with… — Chris Hardwick Copy Share Image
The habit of collecting, of attachment to things, is an essential human trait. But Western civilization put collecting on a pedestal by… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
There is one universal truth, applicable to all countries, cultures and communities: violence against women is never acceptable, never excusable, never tolerable. — Ban Ki-moon Copy Share Image
America is a country of abundance, but our food culture is sad - based on huge portions and fast food. Let's stop… — David Chang Copy Share Image
War, poverty, corruption, hunger, misery, human suffering will not change in a monetary system. That is, there will be very little significant… — Jacque Fresco Copy Share Image
I am changing the culture in this Pakistan environment and I am not interested in players doing just the bare minimum. I… — Mickey Arthur Copy Share Image
The mutating virus of multiculturalism has escaped its breeding ground in elite universities and is now running rampant across popular culture, entertainment,… — Tom Tancredo Copy Share Image
Stephen L. Carter coined the phrase 'the culture of disbelief' to describe the prevailing hostility in Western culture toward public expressions of… — Josh McDowell Copy Share Image
It's a sort of piss-take on culture, because a drag queen is a clown - a parody of our society. It's a… — RuPaul Copy Share Image
[My characters are] conglomerations of past and present stages of civilization, bits from books and newspapers, scraps of humanity, rags and tatters… — August Strindberg Copy Share Image
What we are confronted with now is a growing perception that if we desire a certain type of civilization and culture we… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Women and girls, men and boys all share the right to live free of violence, which is, unfortunately, experienced by both men… — Nazanin Boniadi Copy Share Image
I've learned that for Indian people, the opportunity for us to succeed is very slim. So acting was a great tool for… — Adam Beach Copy Share Image
I thought that culture and education are the shield. An educated person cannot do certain things and, and be educated, you cannot,… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
As soon as you start asking what education is for, what the use of it is, you're abandoning the basic assumption of… — Ann Bridge Copy Share Image
The Culture of Complaint... We live in a culture of complaint because everyone is always looking for things to complain about. It's… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
I do not know when, but I know that many have come in this century to develop arts and sciences, sow the… — Giordano Bruno Copy Share Image
Most musicians, regardless of what culture they come from, can get together and agree on some stuff about music. As there is… — Jerry Garcia Copy Share Image
No one can take culture seriously if he believes that it is only the uppermost of several layers of epiphenomena resting on… — Richard M. Weaver Copy Share Image
Although I grew up as a fan of the culture from the disco D.J. era as a young kid and hearing the… — Fab Five Freddy Copy Share Image
Any time there is a cultural breakthrough in which this culture transcends what it's supposed to be, there's a violent reaction. So… — George C. Wolfe Copy Share Image
You can read a lot about a country by looking at its beaches: across cultures, the beach is that rare public space… — Martin Parr Copy Share Image