Culture Quote by Gloria E. Anzaldúa

The whole drive of western culture, the part of it which is serious, is towards an extreme objectification. It's carried to the point where…

— Henry Flynt

“Europeans believe that culture is something they can grasp and touch because, for them, culture is comprised of objects, or remnants of objects, and…

— László Krasznahorkai

In fact, Western culture has spent decades drawing lines and boxes around interconnected phenomena. We've chunked the world into pieces rather than explored its…

— Margaret J. Wheatley

Westerners think that all that is negative and positive is only caused from outside of themselves. They materialize and externalize their experiences, never understanding…

— Thinley Norbu

“We could summarize it this way: instead of being culturally removed on the one hand and culturally relaxed on the other, we should seek…

— Tullian Tchividjian

The notion of travelling to far places in order to study alien peoples and cultures, is unique to Western man; it springs from the…

— George Steiner

“Because cultural difference has long been conceived as a redemptive solution to the ambivalence of a Western culture established in the destruction of its…

— Deborah Root

“Without touch, what kind of culture do we create? One where isolation and disconnection reign.”

— Ken Breniman

Culture means control over nature.

— Johan Huizinga

“Nowadays, the tendency to be preoccupied with having, at the expense of losing touch with the dimension of being, is becoming ever more pronounced.…

— Stephen Batchelor

Human nature is almost unbelievably malleable, responding accurately and contrastingly to contrasting cultural conditions.

— Margaret Mead

Culture is a slingshot moved by the force of its past

— Barbara Kingsolver