Quotes about Culture

I mean, that the New World black woman needs a little of the Old World black woman in her, and the other way around. I don't think that they are completely fulfilled without the other.

And in our culture today, tolerance no longer means to put up with something you believe to be false (after all, you don't tolerate things you agree with). Tolerance now means that you're supposed to accept every belief as true!

What is sweeter than lettered ease?

Culture is a way of working together toward common goals that have been followed so frequently and so successfully that people don't even think about trying to do things another way. If a culture has formed, people will autonomously do what they need to do to be successful. Those

It's no surprise, really. Processes are often hard to see—they're a combination of both formal, defined, and documented steps and expectations and informal, habitual routines or ways of working that have evolved over time. But they matter profoundly. As MIT's Edgar Schein has explored and discussed, processes are a critical part of the unspoken culture of an organization.1 They enforce "this is what matters most to us.

But Sasha was from Russia, where the sunsets are longer, the dawns less sudden and sentences are often left unfinished from doubt as how to best end them.

But let other pens treat of sex and sexuality; we quit such odious subjects as soon as we can.

Chastity may be a fetish invented by certain societies for unknown reasons.

She came from the most worthless of all classes—the rich, with a smattering of culture.

Is it the lot of average human being, however, he asked himself, the criterion by which we judge the measure of civilization?

Gran was just being polite. Southern people are supposed to be polite and gracious. She's trying to show me how to be the same way.

An English man does not travel to see English men.