Behavior Quote by W. Somerset Maugham

“Even in the most closed cultures men believe that they are free and open to the universal; their differential character makes the narrowest cultural…

— René Girard

Culture is the suggestion, from certain best thoughts, that a man has a range of affinities through which he can modulate the violence of…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Culture hides more than it reveals, and strangely enough what it hides, it hides most effectively from its own participants.

— Edward T. Hall

The member of a culture ... purposely avoids the relationship of intimacy; he wants the object somehow depicted and fictionalized. ... He is embarrassed…

— Richard M. Weaver

The assertion that 'culture' explains human variation will be taken seriously when there are reports of women war parties raiding villages to capture men…

— John Tooby

“Our cultures domesticate us for obscure purposes, nurturing and encouraging certain aspects of our behavior and tendencies while seeking to eliminate those that might…

— Christopher Ryan

“Until the human condition could be resolved it was not safe to acknowledge the different roles men and women played in the journey to…

— Jeremy Griffith

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

I think it's important that culture is this ongoing thing that needs to be nurtured, because there is no such thing as a quick,…

— Phoebe Waller-Bridge

Culture: the cry of men in face of their destiny.

— Albert Camus

Mans most disagreeable habits and idiosyncrasies, his deceit, his cowardice, his lack of reverence, are engendered by his incomplete adjustment to a complicated civilisation.…

— Sigmund Freud

What has become alien to men is the human component of culture, its closest part, which upholds them against the world. They make common…

— Theodor Adorno