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“We not only speak but think and even dream in words. Language is a mirror in which the whole spiritual development of mankind reflects itself. Therefore, in tracing words to their origins, we are tracing simultaneously civilization and culture to their real roots.”

Thinking Real Whole Dream Spiritual Culture Speak Language Mankind Development Civilization Roots Mirrors Spiritual Development Tracing

Author:Ernest Klein

“If the world suffers from mental deterioration or from moral degradation, then something goes wrong at the very root of civilization or culture. Even though that civilization may drag out for a considerable period, it grows less and less vital and ultimately tumbles down.”

Ifs World May Suffering Culture Grows Moral Periods Civilization Roots Drag Degradation Deterioration

Book:Jawaharlal Nehru: Excepts from His Writings and Speeches

Source: Jawaharlal Nehru: Excepts from His Writings and Speeches

“I guess, like most foreigners, when you're away, you see your own culture being even more strange. But where I come from and my roots mean a lot. I miss my family and my friends. Something I've realized as I've been traveling is that it's more about the actual people than the actual place.”

People Mean Culture Missing Strange My Friends Roots My Family Foreigners

Author:Alicia Vikander

“A people without the knowledge of their past history, origin and culture is like a tree without roots.”

People Love Past Happiness Culture Friendship Family Knowledge Relationship Tree Travel Roots Cultural Heritage Knowledge And Ignorance Tree Of Knowledge Useful Knowledge Knowledge Of The Past Wealth Of Knowledge

Author:Marcus Garvey

“The most common music that you hear anywhere in the world now basically has its roots in that union that happened in the last century, or in the century before that. That kind of music that's groove or beat oriented just didn't exist in lots of cultures before that.”

World Kind Lasts Culture Common Happened Century Beats Roots Unions Groove

Author:David Byrne

“I am increasingly convinced that technological culture is the entire root of women's liberation.”

Culture Roots Convinced Liberation Technological

Book:The Vorkosigan Companion

Source: The Vorkosigan Companion

“I am convinced that imprisonment is a way of pretending to solve the problem of crime. It does nothing for the victims of crime, but perpetuates the idea of retribution, thus maintaining the endless cycle of violence in our culture. It is a cruel and useless substitute for the elimination of those conditions--poverty, unemployment, homelessness, desperation, racism, greed--which are at the root of most punished crime. The crimes of the rich and powerful go mostly unpunished.”

“I've had different opportunities in my life, but I've tried to maintain the spirit of an amateur. Our culture roots everything in the barometer of success and how much money you make. But if you really just aspire to a life in the arts, it's really not a barometer at all.”

Ifs Art Different Spirit Culture Opportunity Roots Aspire Barometer

Author:Ethan Hawke

“I sometimes call my new system 'Italian pagan Catholicism,' but it could more accurately be called 'pragmatic liberalism,' with roots in Enlightenment political philosophy. It is a synthesis of the enduring dual elements in our culture, pagan and Judeo-Christian, Romantic and Classic.”

Sometimes Philosophy Christian Political Culture Elements Enlightenment Roots Endure Classic Liberalism Catholicism Italian Political Philosophy Pagan Pragmatic Synthesis

Author:Camille Paglia

“Ultimately we must concern ourselves with pulling out by its roots the decadence that controls our culture, the profit motive that controls our culture.”

Culture Concern Roots Profit Motive Pulling Decadence Profit Motive

Author:Jane Fonda

“All of my Polynesian counterparts in the NFL with roots in American Samoa understand how the values embedded in our South Pacific culture - community, hard work, perseverance, respect - contribute directly to our success.”

Hard Values Culture Community Hard Work Roots South Perseverance Nfl Pacific Embedded Counterparts Samoa Polynesians

Author:Troy Polamalu

“May the work for the further development of chemical science, which has its strongest roots in this beautiful, strong and hard-working country of Sweden, continue to flourish in the future, for the promotion of culture and the benefit of mankind.”

May Country Hard Beautiful Culture Strong Mankind Hard Work Development Benefits Roots Strongest Chemicals Promotion Sweden

Author:Otto Wallach

“Even where there is talent, culture, knowledge, if there is not earnestness, it does not go to the root of things.”

Ifs Doe Culture Talent Roots Sincerity Earnestness

Author:James Freeman Clarke

“What we men share is the experience of having been raised by women in a culture that stopped our fathers from being close enough to teach us how to be men, in a world in which men were discouraged from talking about our masculinity and questioning its roots and its mystique, in a world that glorified masculinity and gave us impossibly unachievable myths of masculine heroics, but no domestic models to teach us how to do it.”

Men World Enough Culture Father Talking Teach Share Models Roots Raised Myth Questioning Masculinity Masculine Discouraged Be A Man Our Father Mystique

Author:Frank Pittman

“To separate from my culture (as from my family) I had to feel competent enough on the outside and secure enough inside to live life on my own. Yet in leaving home I did not lose touch with my origins because lo mexicano is in my system. I am a turtle, wherever I go I carry 'home' on my back.”

Feels Enough Home Culture Loses My Own Roots My Family Leaving Secure Live Life Competent Turtles Leaving Home

Author:Gloria E. Anzaldúa