Attention Quote by Eric S. Raymond

When I went to college, I really became interested in cultural anthropology. Our behavior isn't that different from other primate species'.

— Jon Taffer

“A singular confusion exists about the notions of 'culture' and 'civilization'. Culture began with the 'prologue in heaven.' With its religion, art, ethics, and…

— Alija Izetbegović

Culture is roughly anything we do and the monkeys don't.

— Lord Raglan

As a social primate species, we modulate our morals with signals from family, friends and social groups with whom we identify because in our…

— Michael Shermer

Societies are composed of individuals and are good only insofar as they help individuals to realize their potentialities and to lead a happy and…

— Aldous Huxley

I was taught in my Introduction to Anthropology [course in college], it is not just the great works of [hu]mankind that make a culture.…

— Laurie Colwin

Culture is central to what makes us human.

— Danny K. Davis

Cultural activity is what makes us human.

— Jan Vogler

Most of our social nature is like that of other primates - we're mostly out for ourselves.

— Jonathan Haidt

It is generally admitted that the cultural values (humanization) and the existing institutions and policies of society are rarely,if ever, in harmony. This opinion…

— Herbert Marcuse

Understanding a people's culture exposes their normalness without reducing their particularity...It renders them accessible: setting them in the frame of their own banalities, it…

— Clifford Geertz

The open society, the unrestricted access to knowledge, the unplanned and uninhibited association of men for its furtherance-these are what may make a vast,…

— J. Robert Oppenheimer