Aaron Hill Quotes

For the most part we inherit our opinions. We are the heirs of habits and mental customs. Our beliefs, like the fashion of our garments, depend on where we were born. We are molded and fashioned by our surroundings.

Man is the child of customs, not the child of his ancestors.

Everything is arranged so that it be this way, this is what is called culture.

I love traditions. I mean, cultural ones.

Christian attitudes are still important in a society even if they are no longer connected with belief.

Culture is more important than politics.

It is hard to oppose an ideology with a tradition.

There are a lot of things that people learn and live through culture first, and politics comes afterward.

I think prejudice and tradition count for three-quarters in matters of religion.

The life history of the individual is first and foremost an accommodation to the patterns and standards traditionally handed down in his community.

Being Indian is not blood as much as it is culture.

Custom is our nature. What are our natural principles but principles of custom?

Furthermore, the study of the present surroundings is insufficient: the history of the people, the influence of the regions through which it has passed on its migrations, and the people with whom it came into contact, must be considered.

Of course, the way writers think about those things is almost certain to be affected by their own cultural background, and it would be hard to deny that, for whatever reasons, a lot of SF writers come from Anglo or European backgrounds.

Culture is not a biologically transmitted complex.

I think your values are always influenced by your family and your community.

I feel more European than Belgian. However I do think that my Flemish roots have an impact on my character and culture.

I was raised Irish Catholic, but I don't consider myself Irish Catholic: I consider myself me, an American.

A mind cannot be independent of culture.

Science and technology revolutionize our lives, but memory, tradition and myth frame our response.

I'm the proof - you can't throw away tradition.

We have traditions, attitudes, an attachment to social welfare and even if change is desirable, we won’t accept change overnight.

The central conservative truth is that it is culture, not politics, that determines.

The greatest guarantee for the preservation of a person’s identity is language and faith, and all Armenians must carry these two values.

It is society which, fashioning us in its image, fills us with religious, political, and moral beliefs that control our actions.