Browsing Topic Best History And Culture Quotes

Debate and divergence of views can only enrich our history and culture.

Our job is not to worship history and culture like fetishes, but to feed them into our living, creative stream of personal life for spiritual and intellectual reprocessing.

This is a good time to ask apologists for the Islamic regime, who degrades Islam? Who imposes stoning, forced marriage of underage girls and flogging for not wearing the veil? Do such practices represent Iran’s ancient history and culture, its ethnic and religious diversity? Its centuries of sensual and subversive poetry?

If liberals think Iraqis are genetically incapable of pulling off even the most rudimentary form of democracy, why do they believe 50 million Mexicans will magically become good Americans, imbued in the nation’s history and culture, upon crossing the Rio Grande? Maybe we should dunk Iraqis in the Rio and see what happens.

I think one of the most fascinating things you can do after you learn about your own people is to study something about the history and culture of other people.

I’ve always found that the best travelers are the very same people who are intensely interested in the history and culture of their own home city.

In time, foods such as hamburgers and ice cream became more than just meals. They became part of American history and culture, touchstones that are almost immediately nostalgic and sentimental no matter how old you are or what part of the country you are from.

To control a people you must first control what they think about themselves and how they regard their history and culture. And when your conqueror makes you ashamed of your culture and your history, he needs no prison walls and no chains to hold you.

No revolution creates a wholly new universe. Rather, it reflects the history and culture that spawned it.

I realised that although I was fascinated with America, its history and culture, I was not interested in becoming
American.