Cultural Tensions Quotes

I'm fairly certain that the seeds of Mel Gibson's extraordinary work 'The Passion of the Christ' were sown long before Islamic fundamentalists delivered their abominable message to America and the entire Judeo-Christian civilization.

I am appalled by the notion of cultural wars.

I think perhaps Pakistan can take the lead. Perhaps Turkey can as well, being part of Europe. But someone has to start talking about why the Muslim world has become a boiling pot and look beyond these cartoons to what the ideological reasons are for this divide.

Iranians hate Arabs. They're a fairly well-educated population and they have centuries of experience with self-government.

I go and I keep friends with [Abe] Rosenthal at the New York Times and people of that sort, you know. And all - I mean, not all the Jews, but a lot of the Jews are great friends of mine, they swarm around me and are friendly to me because they know that I'm friendly with Israel. But they don't know how I really feel about what they are doing to this country. And I have no power, no way to handle them, but I would stand up if under proper circumstances.

Some scholars have been arguing that a civilizational clash between organized religions is the next step in human history.

Maybe that's one of the virtues of the 2016 election that we're going through is all of this racism and xenophobia and sexism and whatever else you want to say is being exposed, maybe that's a blessing. I'm trying to look at the positive side of what's been happening in our country, which is frightening.

History is cyclical, and it would be foolhardy to assume that the culture wars will never return.

As recently as the September 11 event, the majority of Muslims were, as the rest of the world was, against its violence. However, if despair and humiliation continue in the population of more than one billion Muslims, the world will face increasing risks of conflicts and wars.

We now live in a very polarized nation, divided not between Republicans and Democrats but between those who want to defend our liberties and those who want to defend politically correct stupidities.

You never have to bother about a President being shot by Puerto Ricans and Mexicans. They don't shoot very straight.

We think of faith as a source of comfort and understanding but find our expressions of faith sowing division; we believe ourselves to be a tolerant people even as racial, religious, and cultural tensions roil the landscape. And instead of resolving these tensions or mediating these conflicts, our politics fans them, exploits them,and drives us further apart.

I cannot accept a divide between Malagasy people and a civil war.

Canada I don't trust. The Canadian government hates me more than the Japanese.

Excessive economic, social and cultural inequalities among peoples arouse tensions and conflicts, and are a danger to peace.

What I appreciated was the fact that the script delved into how Australians were - and still are - condescended to by the English.

The achievement of Tahrir Square wasn’t just its grand political movement but the tiny personal battles fought and won against the frictions wearing down Egyptian society: between religions, classes, sexes, and generations.

The people of the Balkans are like a dysfunctional family. We may fight and argue, but in the end we are family.

It’s a fact that minds are poisoned throughout the Middle East.

In high school I dated a white woman. She would come to visit me on the rez. And her dad, who was very racist, didn't like that at all. And he told her one time, 'You shouldn't go on the rez if you're white because Indians have a lot of anger in their heart.'

The inhabitants of Canada appeared to be suffering between two fires,--the soldiery and the priesthood.

There is no confidence in the Arab world today in the United States of America.

Americans have less and less patience for the intrusive and divisive moral scolds who thrived in the bubbles of the Clinton and Bush years.