Other Cultures Quotes

71 Other Cultures quotes by 65 unique authors

Preservation of one's own culture does not require contempt or disrespect for other cultures. — Cesar Chavez
It is not the literal past that rules us, save, possibly, in a biological sense. It is images of the past.... Each new historical era… — George Steiner
A Senegalese poet said 'In the end we will conserve only what we love. We love only what we understand, and we will understand only… — Yo-Yo Ma
A first grader should understand that her or his culture isn't a rational invention; that there are thousands of other cultures and they all work… — Kurt Vonnegut
Its [the anthropological method] power to make us understand the roots from which our civilization has sprung, that it impresses us with the relative value… — Franz Boas
We must start understanding other cultures, such as the Aboriginal culture. They have a harmony with the Earth and from that harmony has grown a… — Ian Cohen
I think that curiosity happened on these reviews where I was just a guest of the reviewer, because it introduced me to new cuisines and… — Ted Allen
Americans, more than any other culture on earth, are cookbook cooks; we learn to make our meals not from any oral tradition, but from a… — John Thorne
Greek customs such as wine drinking were regarded as worthy of imitation by other cultures. So the ships that carried Greek wine were carrying Greek… — Tom Standage
What moves me is neither ethnocentric pride nor sectarian arrogance. I make no claim that Jewish culture is superior to other cultures. But it is… — Theodore Bikel
This world has seen a great many civilizations. And many of them have survived for longer periods than ours up to the present. They were… — Thor Heyerdahl
Art is not like other culture because its success is not made by its audience. The public fill concert halls and cinemas every day, we… — Banksy
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… — Mark Steyn
I want to be honest about the world that we live in, and sometimes my political persuasions come through in my work. Fashion can be… — Alexander McQueen
The history of other cultures is non-existent until it erupts in confrontation with the United States. — Edward Said
Multiculturalism has seemed to imply, wrongly for me, let other cultures be allowed to express themselves but do not let the majority culture at all… — John Sentamu
A culture that just views a pig as a pile of protoplasmic inanimate structure, and can be manipulated by whatever creative design humans can foist… — Joel Salatin
I think the international appeal of SF is quite understandable since the kinds of people who like to read it, are, by the nature of… — Stanley Schmidt
I became a model to see the world, to make enough money to travel and experience other cultures, — Lauren Hutton
It was the transmutation of the classical liberal intellectual foundation by Christianity that gave modern Europe its impetus and that pushed European accomplishment so far… — Charles A. Murray

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