Cultural Factors Quotes

Gun crime is a major cause of fear and distress throughout the UK. The problem is deeply entrenched in a wide range of social and cultural factors and therefore not an isolated issue.

Poverty is not the simple result of bad geography, bad culture, bad history. It's the result of us: of the ways that people choose to organize their societies.

The Left has always sought single, non-values-based explanations for human behavior.

There are all kinds of psychological disorders in the West that don't exist in Asia.

During the 1980s, when Japan's economy was roaring and people were writing books with titles like 'Japan is Number One,' most Japanese college students didn't make the effort to become fluent in English.

A U.N. study claims the happiest country in the world is Switzerland. When asked why they're so happy, Swiss people couldn't answer because their hands were counting money and their mouths were full of chocolate.

Our morality is based on so many factors: of where we were born, who we were born to, what values were instilled in us, what values we chose, the way that our lives have shaped us. That dictates so much of what we assume is our morality, and also the culture, all of these things.

I feel like there is just as much violent programming in other countries and there is not the same incidence of factors. I think there are other factors contributing to violence in this country and not the media.

Success is not a function of individual talent. It's the steady accumulation of advantages. It's bound up in so many other broader circumstantial, environmental, historical, and cultural factors.

Geography has no bearing on it, nor have the interests of the community in which I work.

The intergenerational poverty that troubles us so much today is predominantly a poverty of values.

People are not depressed in Colombia the same way people are in America.

In other words, we are interested in the anatomical and mental characteristics of men living under the same biological, geographical, and social environment, and as determined by their past.

I think religion might throw up a kind of resistance, but I think if one talks about conditioning we can all kind of understand that.

Britain has still got rather fewer astronomers than many other countries - the French and the Italians, for example. Why is that? I don't think those countries have better brains.

Proper stance and movement are obviously genetically old, environment-resistant behaviours. Misuse, with all its psychosomatic or, rather, somato-psychic consequences, must therefore be considered a result of modern living conditions - of a culturally determined stress.

To help people emerge from the poverty, you have to understand, what are the structural causes of it? And the structural causes are partially cultural.

Depending on where you live, cooking, sex and pooping are either 3 of life's pleasures or what kills you

Notoriously, the United States is the most religious of the Western advanced nations. It's a bit mysterious why that is.

I don't think 'Playboy' would have been successfully started on either coast.

A complex web of cultural, social, economic and political factors, some ambiguous in nature, keeps Arab women in thrall.

Every age has its own kind of war, its own limiting conditions and its own peculiar preconceptions.

Women are far more likely to follow orders to evacuate, especially women with children. At the same time, women were much more likely to die during the South Asian tsunami. In some villages it was 3 to 1. And that was party because of the average strength it takes to hold onto something. Also it was cultural; women were less likely to know how to swim, as were children. So much of this is based on how we develop our own survival skills before something goes wrong: Even if nothing goes wrong, it might be good to know how to swim.

I came to see that man finds meaning in his existence only through the active demonstration of his human self, a cosmos comprising the entire constellation of life's factors: culture, civilization, tradition, history, ideals, facts, physical conditions, one's mental state, the ecology, and so on.