Conclusion Quote by William Pfaff Download Open image “Our culture is teleological-it presumes purposive development and a conclusion.” — William Pfaff ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.1 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Conclusion Culture Development Growth
We are the climactic generation of human cultural evolution, and in the microcosm of our lives the macrocosm of the evolution of the human… — William Irwin Thompson Copy Share Image
“The idea is that human culture as broadly defined--art, politics, technology, religion, and so on--evolves in much the way biological species evolve: new cultural… — Robert Wright Copy Share Image
“culture comes into play at precisely the point where biological individuals become subjects, and that what lies between the two is not some automatically… — Stuart Hall Copy Share Image
We must accept all the implications of our human inheritance, one of the most important of which is the small scope of biologically transmitted… — Ruth Benedict Copy Share Image
Our culture is something that has sustained us for thousands and thousands of years and will continue to do so in generations to come. — Hetti Perkins Copy Share Image
The accounts that history presents have to be paid. Past has to be reconciled with present in the life of a nation. History is… — William Pfaff Copy Share Image
The moral spectacle of capitalism still offends, as does American capitalism's implacable insistence that the market determine value even in the political, intellectual, and… — William Pfaff Copy Share Image
But Americans are different from everyone else in the world - except the Canadians, and Americans are more different from the Canadians than they… — William Pfaff Copy Share Image
The achievement of nationhood is a product not only of time and circumstance but usually of war and suffering as well. — William Pfaff Copy Share Image
For four hundred years European civilization has dominated the world - for better or for worse. It is convenient, and flattering, for Americans to… — William Pfaff Copy Share Image
We Americans really seem to be the only truly non-socialist economy on earth. — William Pfaff Copy Share Image
America's problem is how to free itself from the grip of it's exhausted ideas. — William Pfaff Copy Share Image
It is one of the perceptual defects of Western government and press to assign Western-style motives to what people do in non-Western societies, as… — William Pfaff Copy Share Image
Europeans believe in democracy - or, at least, in republican government - but they have considered the alternatives, and continue to do so, and… — William Pfaff Copy Share Image
The problems of elites is an old one for which Americans have found no solid answer. — William Pfaff Copy Share Image
I'm not going to be part of looking at information only partially. I'm not going to be part of just coming to quick conclusions.… — Max Cleland Copy Share Image
From what I have seen, I am driven to the conclusion that religion is only good for good people. — Mary McCarthy Copy Share Image
The thing about living alone is that it gives you a lot of time to think. You don't necessarily reach any conclusions, because wisdom… — Jonathan Tropper Copy Share Image
The main conclusion here arrived at ... is that man is descended from some less highly organized form. — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
Your deeper sense isn’t a springboard; it’s a landing place. If you draw conclusions too quickly or too slowly, you’ll establish your self where… — John de Ruiter Copy Share Image
When there is a mission before you, you see it from its beginning to its conclusion. — Jesse White Copy Share Image
Every study on chocolate is pointing to the same conclusion: there is something in chocolate that is really good for us. That something is the raw cacao bean, the nut that all chocolate is made from. The cacao bean has always been and will always be Nature's #1 weight loss and high-energy food. Cacao beans are probably the best kept… — David Wolfe Copy Share
I have come to the definite conclusion that musical ability is not an inborn talent but an ability which can be developed. — Shinichi Suzuki Copy Share Image
Study how a society uses its land, and you can come to pretty reliable conclusions as to what its future will be. — E. F. Schumacher Copy Share Image
Dr. Arnold . . . the admired reformer of public schools, came across some cranks who thought it a mistake to flog boys. Anyone… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
That's what politics is. It's the story of what's happening, what does it mean, what's the conclusion, who are the interesting characters? — John Dickerson Copy Share Image
It's my firm conclusion that human meaning comes from humans, not from a supernatural source. After we die, our hopes for an afterlife reside in the social networks that we influenced while we were alive. If we influence people in a positive way -- even if our social web is only as big as our nuclear family -- others will… — Greg Graffin Copy Share
