Cultural legacies are powerful forces. They have deep roots and long lives. They persist, generation after generation, virtually intact, even as the economic and social and demographic conditions that spawned them have vanished, and they play such a role in directing attitudes and behavior that we cannot make sense of our world without them.
Malcolm GladwellTags: behavior cultural legacies
I should emphasize this, to keep well-meaning but misguided multiculturalists at bay: the theoretical entities in which these tribal people frankly believe — the gods and other spirits — don't exist. These people are mistaken, and you know it as well as I do. It is possible for highly intelligent people to have a very useful but mistaken theory, and we don't have to pretend otherwise in order to show respect for these people and their ways.
Daniel C. DennettTags: relativism cultural multiculturalism
We, the Hawaiian people, who are born from the union of Papahanaumoku and Wakea, earth mother and sky father, and who have lived in these islands for over 100 generations, will always have the moral right to the lands of Hawai'i now and forever, no matter what any court says.
Lilikalā K. Kame'eleihiwaTags: politics culture rights cultural hawaii hawai-i hawaiian
We may have all come on different ships, but we're in the same boat now.
Martin Luther King Jr.Tags: inspirational spiritual cultural
Is not the semblance of guilt, however slight the tinge, already a corruption?
Oakley HallTags: realistic cultural analysis troubling
there is no problems, only solutions".
Vesa PeltonenTags: life art zen psychology creative cultural bio
In Italia la linea più breve fra due punti è l’arabesco.
Ennio FlaianoTags: cultural
It has become a cultural norm in Jewish families for parents to bring up their children to value wealth.
H.W. CharlesTags: money wealth cultural jewish-wealth
While the churches, bringing the sweet smell of piety for the soul, came in prancing and farting like brewery horses in bock-beer time, the sister evangelism, with release and joy for the body, crept in.
silently and greyly, with its head bowed and its face covered.
Tags: humor philosophical cultural
Pride! In English it is a Deadly Sin. But in Urdu it is fakhr and nazish - both names that you can find more than once on our family tree.
Kamila ShamsieTags: cultural
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