The way people want to get respect for their culture and language, it is critical to reciprocate the same to other else you don't have any right to condemn others
~ Pankaj Gupta
A translator must, of course, be an interpreter of cultures.
~ Philip Zaleski
Lewis is like a gateway, making the riches of Deep Church more accessible.
~ Alister E. Mcgrath
If we spoke a different language, we would perceive a somewhat different world.
~ Ludwig Wittgenstein
The human impulse behind the isolation of class is as basic as impulses get: People like to be around other people who understand them and to whom they can talk.
~ Charles Murray
The geniuses of all ages and of all lands speak different languages but the same flame burns in them all. Oh, if you only knew what unearthly happiness my soul feels now from being able to understand them.
~ Anton Chekhov
An entire mythology is stored within our language.
To knock today's prestige dialects off their pedestals, it helps to realize that they are really foul perversions of yesterday's prestige dialects.
~ Gregory C. Carlson
When a language dies, a possible world dies with it.
~ George Steiner
Arguments about language are usually arguments about politics, disguised and channeled through one of our most distinctive markers of identity.
~ Robert Lane Greene
Yesterday's abomination is today's rule.
The lively oral storytelling scene in Scots and Gaelic spills over into the majority English-speaking culture, imbuing it with a strong sense of narrative drive that is essential to the modern novel, screenplay and even non-fiction.
~ Sara Sheridan
To excavate is to open a book written in the language that the centuries have spoken into the earth.
~ Spyridon Marinatos
Each generation of the church in each setting has the responsibility of communicating the gospel in understandable terms, considering the language and thought-forms of that setting.
~ Francis A. Schaeffer
Love is only surpassing sweet when it is directed toward a mortal object, and the secret of this ultimate sweetness only is defined by the bitterness of death. Thus the white peoples of the world foresee a time when their land with its rivers and mountains still lies under heaven as it does today, but other people dwell there; when their language is entombed in books, and their laws and customs have lost their living power.
~ Franz Rosenzweig
Because different cultures see a particular animal as representing a certain human virtue or vice, the use of animal imagery also allows for more colorful commentary on the human condition.
~ Larry Herzberg
Richard Wright and his Negro intellectual colleagues never realized the plain truth that no one in the United States understood the revolutionary potential of the Negro better than the Negro's white radical allies. They understood it instinctively, and revolutionary theory had little to do with it. What Wright could not see was that what the Negro's allies feared most of all was that this sleeping, dream-walking black giant might wake up and direct the revolution all by himself, relegating his white allies to a humiliating second-class status. The negro's allies were not about to tell the Negro anything that might place him on the path to greater power and independence in the revolutionary movement than they themselves had. The rules of the power game meant that unless the American Negro taught himself the profound implications of his own revolutionary significance in America, it would never be taught to him by anybody else. Unless the Negro intellectuals understood that in pursuit of this self-understanding, they would have to make their own rules, by and for themselves, nationalism would forever remain--as it was for Wright-- a bewildering and vexing question.
~ Harold Cruse
Culture is like a giant mirror which enables us to see who we are more clearly. The various facets of a culture also provide us with the means to change what we do not like in the mirror, and retain what we cherish most.
~ Dr Robin Lincoln Wood
I will defend the absolute value of Mozart over Miley Cyrus, of course I will, but we should be wary of false dichotomies. You do not have to choose between one or the other. You can have both. The human cultural jungle should be as varied and plural as the Amazonian rainforest. We are all richer for biodiversity. We may decide that a puma is worth more to us than a caterpillar, but surely we can agree that the habitat is all the better for being able to sustain each.
~ Stephen Fry
To be or not to be that is the question.
~ William Shakespeare
They speak very well of you.- They speak very well of everybody.- That so bad?- Yes. It means you can´t trust them.
~ Iain M. Banks
They stared at each other, wanting each other, drawn to each other, but their silent shout of love went unheard in the roar of misunderstanding, and the clatter of culturally ingrained beliefs.
~ Jean M. Auel
Settling into a new country is like getting used to a new pair of shoes. At first they pinch a little, but you like the way they look, so you carry on. The longer you have them, the more comfortable they become. Until one day without realizing it you reach a glorious plateau. Wearing those shoes is like wearing no shoes at all. The more scuffed they get, the more you love them and the more you can't imagine life without them.
~ Tahir Shah
It was always so hot, and everyone was so polite, and everything was all surface but underneath it was like a bomb waiting to go off. I always felt that way about the South, that beneath the smiles and southern hospitality and politeness were a lot of guns and liquor and secrets.
~ James Mcbride
I am not interested in living in a city where there isn't a production by Samuel Beckett running.
~ Edward Albee
Raising children is, in a sense, the reason the society exists in the first place. It's the most important thing that happens, and it's the culmination of all the tools and language and social structure that has evolved.
~ Michael Crichton
If anyone, no matter who, were given the opportunity of choosing from amongst all the nations in the world the set of beliefs which he thought best, he would inevitably—after careful considerations of their relative merits—choose that of his own country. Everyone without exception believes his own native customs, and the religion he was brought up in, to be the best.
~ Herodotus
She wanted more, more slang, more figures of speech, the bee's knees, the cats pajamas, horse of a different color, dog-tired, she wanted to talk like she was born here, like she never came from anywhere else
~ Jonathan Safran Foer
Our culture places a very high premium on self-expression, but is relatively disinterested in producing selves that are worth expressing.
~ Matthew Kelly
We live in a society and a culture and an economic model that tries to make everything look right. Look at computers. Why are they all putty-colored or off-fucking-white? You make something off-white or beige because you are afraid to use any other color – because you don’t want to offend anybody. But by definition, when you make something no one hates, no one loves it. So I am interested in imperfections, quirkiness, insanity, unpredictability. That’s what we really pay attention to anyway. We don’t talk about planes flying; we talk about them crashing.
~ Tibor Kalman
I believe Western culture -- rule of law, universal suffrage, etc. -- is preferable to Arab culture: that's why there are millions of Muslims in Scandinavia, and four Scandinavians in Syria. Follow the traffic. I support immigration, but with assimilation.
~ Mark Steyn
Whatever may be their use in civilized societies, mirrors are essential to all violent and heroic action.
~ Virginia Woolf
To reverse the effects of civilization would destroy the dreams of a lot of people. There's no way around it. We can talk all we want about sustainability, but there's a sense in which it doesn't matter that these people's dreams are based on, embedded in, intertwined with, and formed by an inherently destructive economic and social system. Their dreams are still their dreams. What right do I -- or does anyone else -- have to destroy them.At the same time, what right do they have to destroy the world?
~ Derrick Jensen
Watching Italians eat (especially men, I have to say) is a form of tourism the books don't tell you about. They close their eyes, raise their eyebrows into accent marks, and make sounds of acute appreciation. It's fairly sexy. Of course I don't know how these men behave at home, if they help with the cooking or are vain and boorish and mistreat their wives. I realized Mediterranean cultures have their issues. Fine, don't burst my bubble. I didn’t want to marry these guys, I just wanted to watch. (p. 247)
~ Barbara Kingsolver
What a culture we live in, we are swimming in an ocean of information, and drowning in ignorance.
~ Richard Paul Evans
Perfect sanity is a myth propagated by straitjacket salesmen.
~ Rebecca Mckinsey
no human culture is inaccessible to someone who makes the effort to understand, to learn, to inhabit another world.
~ Henry Louis Gates Jr.
Culture consists of connections, not of separations: to specialize is to isolate.
~ Carlos Fuentes
The world needs to see Christians burning, not with self-righteous fury at the sliding morals in our country, but with passion for God.
~ Kevin Deyoung
Cultural analysis is intrinsically incomplete. And, worse than that, the more deeply it goes the less complete it is.
~ Clifford Geertz
