Cate Blanchett Quotes

Beliefs and values that have held sway for thousands of years will be questioned as never before.

I think our societies - to certain extent, of course, and to different degrees, but almost with no exception - have always been struggling to come to terms with archaic traditions.

The universality of a custom is pledge of its worth.

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

Everyday decision-making around the world is constantly based on what came before us.

It takes a strong effort on the part of each American Indian not to become Europeanized. The strength for this effort can only come from the traditional ways, the traditional values that our elders retain.

Very long ago our ancestors had moral systems. Our current institutions are only a couple of thousand years old, which is really not old in the eyes of a biologist.

For members of a traditional society where many traditions have been discredited, an interest in modernity can result in a restless sophistication. Mehmet Ertegun seems not to have been a restless man.

In the stable periods of history, meaning was supplied in the context of a coherent community and traditionally prescribed patterns of culture. Today we cannot count on any such inheritance.

Value preferences of people change.

I have no objection to the twist as such, but it does represent some kind of change of our standards. What has happened to our concepts of beauty, decency, and morality?

I am very, very proud I am also Turkish and both of my parents are from Turkey. I was born in Germany and grew up there. By playing football, I learned my different cultures, and that is an advantage if you grow up as a person. You get a different view on certain things. I am very, very thankful I was able to pick the best from many cultures.

Tradition is nothing but ancestral peer pressure.

I asked my mother, 'Why shouldn't I act?' She said, 'Nobody in the family has acted, so why should you?'

Culture is not a matter of a change of climate.

What one generation finds ridiculous, the next accepts; and the third shudders when it looks back on what the first did.

Cultures grow on the vine of tradition.

What we have been raised to think of as inevitable - division and hierarchy, monotheism and nation states - actually accounts for less than 10 percent of human history.

Every culture has their myths that people are aware of and share.

I understand culture. I am the nucleus.

With the rise of chiefdoms around 7,500 years ago, people had to learn, for the first time in history, how to encounter strangers regularly without attempting to kill them.

A culture is the sum of all the things about which humanity can choose to differ.

Laws have come down to us from old customs and folk-ways based on primitive ideas of man's origin, capacity and responsibility.

A man will not need to study history to find out what is best for his own culture.

Tradition is the thief of power. There is no area of our lives where that theft is more evident than in the area of divine healing.