“Culture is a window reflecting the history, culture and spiritual world of a nation, .. Cultural exchange is a bridge to enhance the mutual understanding and friendship between the people of different nations.” PeopleWorldDifferentSpiritualCultureNationsUnderstandingWindowBridgesMutualReflectingMutual UnderstandingCultural Exchange Author:Hu Jintao
“The church itself has got to go outside of its own borders and carry the gospel to ev'ry creature, or it is no church of Christ; and any mutual improvement club which thinks that by reading its Shakspearo, or by acting its pretty tableaux, or by having. this or that little reading from Spenser and from Chaucer, it is going to lift itself up into any higher order of culture or life, is wholly mistaken, unless as an essential part of its duty, it goes out into the world, finds those that are falling down, and lifts them up to the majesty of freemen, who are sons of God.” ThinkingWorldLittlesLife IsOrderFallCultureReadingChristChurchActingSonDutyHigherCreaturesEssentialsDown AndClubsImprovementLiftsBordersMutualMistakenMajestyFalling DownFreemanChurch Of ChristChaucerSpenser Author:Edward Everett Hale
“To write about the monstrous sense of alienation the poet feels in this culture of polarized hatreds is a way of staying sane. With the poem, I reach out to an audience equally at odds with official policy, and I celebrate our mutual humanness in an inhuman world.” WorldWayFeelsWritingCultureAudiencePolicyPoetHatredCelebrateOfficialsStayingMutualReach OutSaneOddsAlienationMonstrousInhumanHumanness Book:Always Beginning: Essays on a Life in Poetry Source: Always Beginning: Essays on a Life in Poetry
“One effect of an individualistic culture that's poor at instilling mutual respect is that people jump more quickly to anger or violence.” PeopleCulturePoorViolenceEffectsMutualMutual RespectIndividualistic Author:Geoff Mulgan
“We must come to understand the deep mutual connection or kinship between the various forms of our spirituality. We must recollect our original spiritual and moral substance, which grew out of the same essential experience of humanity. I believe that this is the only way to achieve a genuine renewal of our sense of responsibility for ourselves and for the world. And at the same time, it is the only way to achieve a deeper understanding among cultures that will enable them to work together in a truly ecumenical way to create a new order for the world.” WorldWayBelieveAgeTogetherSpiritualFormHumanityOrderCultureSpiritualityI BelieveUnderstandingResponsibilityMoralAchieveGrewEssentialsConnectionsOriginalsVariousDeeperGenuineSubstanceWorking TogetherMutualNew AgeRenewalKinshipSense Of ResponsibilityDeeper Understanding Author:Vaclav Havel