I can remember saying again and again and again, "A terrible thing has happened, but this should be a kind of wake-up… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
The west has decided to channel money and effort into studying other customs and practices, but no one has really given other… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
For 200 years, the West has been so dominant in the world that it's not really needed to understand other cultures, other… — Martin Jacques Copy Share Image
Scientists are very much entangled in their culture and this culture is not pristine, untouched by other cultures and practices. — Bruno Latour Copy Share Image
I plead for conservation of human culture, which is much more fragile than nature herself. We needn't destroy other cultures with the… — Arthur Erickson Copy Share Image
A first grader should understand that her or his culture isn't a rational invention; that there are thousands of other cultures and… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
I'm not trying to explain other cultures, or to give a fair and balanced account of a country, or the top ten… — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
In America I think it's much more full of disruption culturally; it's much more mysterious how we inherit culture here. We grab… — Sarah Ruhl Copy Share Image
The Russians always base their policies on values, and these values are the sovereignty of other countries, the international law, respecting other… — Bashar al-Assad Copy Share Image
Cross-cultural reality testing forces people to examine both their own and others' understandings of reality. Most people simply assume that the way… — Paul G Copy Share Image
Many other cultures value poetry more than we do. In Ireland, poetry is a top cultural pursuit, the art to end all… — Campbell McGrath Copy Share Image
You experience other cultures to give you a kind of shock that makes you look at your own culture. You appreciate it… — Mem Fox Copy Share Image
More and more we're negating the validity of first-hand experience of people from other countries and other cultures... whether it's on TV,… — Nitin Sawhney Copy Share Image
Good authors mature over time: it does take awhile. Travel abroad and learn to live in other cultures. That's one of the… — Richard K. Morgan Copy Share Image
As a culture, we are not comfortable with mortality. We do not accept it the way other cultures do. We cling to… — Alan Ball Copy Share Image
Unfortunately, the belief that women are a minority is endemic in most cultures around the world. Obviously some take it to the… — Gillian Anderson Copy Share Image
French women love to shop and prepare food. They love to talk about what they have bought and made. It's a deeply… — Mireille Guiliano Copy Share Image
Because I was playing Idi Amin, who dealt with the colonisation issue, I became aware of this internalised conflict of what it… — Forest Whitaker Copy Share Image
[Jack] Kerouac looking at the fellaheen worlds. Looking at other cultures. Welcoming it, curious. Really stepping outside his own limited, whatever that… — Anne Waldman Copy Share Image
My most fundamental hope is for a worldwide attitude of tolerance, which will only come through education and an awareness of other… — John Hendricks Copy Share Image
Literature presents you with alternate mappings of the human experience. You see that the experiences of other people and other cultures are… — Chaim Potok Copy Share Image
I love bringing the colors and textures of other cultures. If I wear a dress that I bought from a street vendor… — Serinda Swan Copy Share Image
as the traveler who has once been from home is wiser than he who has never left his own doorstep,so a knowledge… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
It was the transmutation of the classical liberal intellectual foundation by Christianity that gave modern Europe its impetus and that pushed European… — Charles A. Murray Copy Share Image
I serve like a bridge. I go to other cultures, learn, put myself in different situations and learn as much as I… — Marina Abramovic Copy Share Image