Harvey V. Fineberg Quotes

Culture is not a matter of a change of climate.

Great cultural changes begin in affectation and end in routine.

Culture does matter, but politics can change culture.

I think culture is a very challenging thing to reverse.

We're going to have to change our traditions, our history.

Culture is a product of law. And laws create norms for society. This is why anyone who wants to change the culture of a country must try to change the norms of the country.

Cultural diversity and cultural change are desirable and inevitable. We are cultural animals, someone without a culture is not human. But the cultures we possess vary enormously. Indeed, the variability, over time and space is the great evolutionary advantage of humanity. Instead of changing biologically over millennia, human beings can change culturally over decades

Our culture is like a garment that does not fit us, or in any case no longer fits us. This culture is like a dead language that no longer has anything in common with the language of the street. It is increasingly alien to our lives.

Which goes to show you, you can make all the laws you want, but you cannot change people's ways. If you must change them, you have to understand that it will take a long time.

Over the past several years, all of us as Canadians, and as members of the North American cultural and economic environment, have been to a greater or lesser extent party to a significant attitudinal change towards our culture.

Company cultures are like country cultures. Never try to change one. Try, instead, to work with what you've got.

In America nothing dies easier than tradition.

Things change in different countries as people grow, and as generations change.

It's very, very hard to affect culture. And you can get surprised thinking you're farther down the path of change than you really are because, frankly, most of us like the way things are.

I believe that reforms will not really take hold if they do not gradually come into the culture of the people.

It is nonsense to say that Germans are unable to change.

It's like a 'chicken or the egg' thing. We're all part of the culture. We're reflecting it; we're changing it. So, yeah, I think culture is always changing.

Culture is our nature, and the ability to learn and change is our most important and fundamental instinct.

For to change the norms, the very foci of attention, of a cultural system is a difficult task - far more complex than that of changing an individual's attitudes and interests.

The customs of the [Khmer] barbarians are so different from our own that even if we were to capture all their territory, it would not be certain that we could change them.

The Chinese move very slowly. Our customs are so fixed that it takes much time to change them.

Western societies will have to focus on the dangers of too rapid cultural change. That might involve some limits on the rate of immigration and on the kinds of immigrants who are permitted to enter.

How do we change as a culture, and how do we each individually take responsibility for the one piece of the solution that we are in charge of, and that is our own behavior?

Class doesn't create culture anymore.

The conversion of a savage to Christianity is the conversion of Christianity to savagery.