Brian Chesky Quotes

Cultures, for better or worse, are very stable.

Culture is the air we breathe all around us.

It's Australian to do such things because, however uncivilised they may seem, it's human to do them.

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.

On my parents' scale of values, the more Western something was, the more cultured it was considered.

There's a cultural difference between India and the rest of the world.

Culture is not a matter of a change of climate.

Culture is the name for what people are interested in, their thoughts, their models, the books they read and the speeches they hear, their table-talk, gossip, controversies, historical sense and scientific training, the values they appreciate, the quality of life they admire. All communities have a culture. It is the climate of their civilization.

If someone were to put a proposition before men bidding them choose, after examination, the best customs in the world, each nation would certainly select its own.

Cultural comparisons are good because they can tell you about what's similar, but also sometimes they make it easier to see obvious differences.

Culture is not a biologically transmitted complex.

I'm not trying to represent the whole Latino community. There are too many different cultures, and Latinos will always say, 'My family doesn't do that.'

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 more important than politics.

There is endless variety in the details of the customs and laws which prevail of the world at large.

Culture is more important than rules and regulations.

Culture is more important than politics and government.

Class doesn't create culture anymore.

You can't escape culture. You can learn about it. You can criticize it. You can try to move it slowly. But at the end of the day, you can't actually opt out of the culture that you're in.

Culture has no logic.

One of the things that I really value about Russian culture is that on the private level it allows for a huge amount of variety and individuality with regards to family structure.

An observer will see the bizarre developments of behavior only in alien cultures, not his own. Nevertheless this is obviously a local and temporary bias. There is no reason to suppose that any one culture has seized upon an eternal sanity and will stand in history as a solitary solution of the human problem. Even the next generation knows better. Our only scientific course is to consider our own culture, so far as we are able, as one example among innumerable others of the variant configurations of human culture.

The conception of what is normal varies not only with the culture but also within the same culture, in the course of time.