Quotes about Culture

Advertising reflects the mores of society, but it does not influence them.

For the Arab, the past does not merely live. The past defines the present.

I have no doubt that historians will conclude that we of the twentieth century had intelligence enough to create a great civilization but not the moral wisdom to preserve it.

The vast majority of organizations today have more than enough intelligence, experience and knowledge to be successful. What they lack is organizational health.

The crowd is the same everywhere, in all periods and cultures; it remains essentially the same among men of the most diverse origin, education and language. Once in being, it spreads with the utmost violence. Few can resist its contagion; it always wants to go on growing and there are no inherent limits to its growth. It can arise wherever people are together, and its spontaneity and suddenness are uncanny.

A missionary plods through the first year or two, thinking that things will be different when he speaks the language. He is baffled to find, frequently, that they are not.

Homemaking is a passion you can pass on from generation to generation.

The mere fact that a belief is unpopular at present (or at some other time) is interesting from a sociological point of view but evidentially irrelevant.

History shows that when the church accommodates culture, it weakens it.

I wear the national dress because it is the most natural and the most becoming for an Indian.

I like the Rockabilly look. My background is half Italian, half French. I wear cowboy boots and jeans.

Braids are not new. Black women have been wearing braids for a very long time.