Over the years the Indian leadership, and the educated Indian, have deliberately projected and embellished an image about Indians that they know to be untrue, and have wilfully encouraged the well-meaning but credulous foreign observer to accept it. What is worse, they have fallen in love with this image, and can no longer accept that it is untrue.
Pavan K. VarmaI believe order is better than chaos, creation better than destruction. I prefer gentleness to violence, forgiveness to vendetta. On the whole I think that knowledge is preferable to ignorance, and I am sure that human sympathy is more valuable than ideology. I believe that in spite of the recent triumphs of science, men haven't changed much in the last two thousand years; and in consequence we must try to learn from history.
Kenneth ClarkTags: history civilization culture credo
The truly cultured are capable of owning thousands of unread books without losing their composure or their desire for more.
Gabriel ZaidTags: books culture composure unread
I knew that Sundays in England aren't just ordinary dull Sundays, the same the world over, which demand that one simply tiptoe through without disturbing them or paying them the least attention, they are vaster and slower and more burdensome than anywhere else I know.
Javier MaríasTags: humor culture england sundays
When you die, your culture takes you in, and then, if you've given enough, your place is near the centre.
Robert Bringhurst...O-suzu left whatever work she was doing at her sewing machine and dragged Takeo back to O-yoshi and her son.
How dare you behave so selfishly! Now tell O-yoshi-san that you are sorry. Get down on the mats and make a proper bow!
الثقافة فى رأى مفكرنا زكى نجيب محمود ممارسة وليست تنظيراً ،فنحن نعيش ثقافتنا فى كل تفصيلات حياتنا مثل الميلاد والموت والزواج وطريقة إكرام الضيف ..إلخ , يحدث ذلك حين تكون الثقافة منسابة فى عروق الناس مع دمائهم، فتصبح حياتهم هى ثقافتهم وثقافتهم هى حياتهم
خالد منتصرTags: culture
Whoever wants to know the heart and mind of America had better learn baseball, the rules and realities of the game and do it by watching first some high-school or small-town teams
Jacques BarzunTags: culture
Sometimes we feel we straddle two cultures; at other times, that we fall between two stools.
Salman RushdieSexually progressive cultures gave us literature, philosophy, civilization and the rest, while sexually restrictive cultures gave us the Dark Ages and the Holocaust.
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