Paul Bloom Quotes

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

Long before we understand ourselves through the process of self-examination, we understand ourselves in a self-evident way in the family, society and state in which we live.

In Africa... age is not important over there. They don't care.

You can only judge anything that happened in the times, in the times that that happened.

Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions.

A mind cannot be independent of culture.

On the other hand, ethnic psychology must always come to the assistance of individual psychology, when the developmental forms of the complex mental processes are in question.

Culture is not a matter of a change of climate.

We don't grow up in vacuums. We grow up in societies.

Culture is your operating system.

The tendency to aggression is an innate, independent, instinctual disposition in man... it constitutes the powerful obstacle to culture.

Kids aren't born to be bullies, they're taught to be bullies.

When kids my age were picking up toy cars, I used to buy toy guns.

The frontier between public and private shifts from time to time and culture to culture.

Culture exists and evolves to relegate to habit categories of interactions the constant conscious reference to which would make human interaction impossible.

If you live only in one culture for the first 20 years of your life, you become conditioned without knowing it.

Culture is not a biologically transmitted complex.

Culture is the air we breathe all around us.

The family you were raised in, the time period you were born in, and the part of the country you're in absolutely shape your view on sex, which shapes a huge part of anybody's personality.

Do creative, social, and civic attitudes change depending on where we live? Yes, I think so.

The theory of cultural bias... is the idea that a culture is based on a particular form of organization. It can't be transplanted except to another variant of that organization.

A lot of times you're just conditioned by what's around you.

I believe that the dysfunctional Muslim family constitutes a real threat to the very fabric of western life. It is in the family that children are groomed to practise, promote and pass on the norms of their parents' culture.

Men and women must be educated, in a great degree, by the opinions and manners of the society they live in.

Every intellectual product must be judged from the point of view of the age and the people in which it was produced.