Culture

“La literatura refleja las ideas vigentes en una sociedad, y es expresión de ella.”

“If someone asks what the heart of Yamato is, I would answer: the mountain cherry blossoms glowing in the morning sun.”

“Anything and everything involving ideas, including theology, is intimately bound up with the existing social situation in at least an unconscious way.”

“When I came to Poland, the [embassy] staff immediately said to me, 'let's promote Indonesia and gamelan!' But I just had to say 'stop that.'”

“Tradition is not constant and static; it grows and builds.”

“其實我唱歌是為全體中國人而唱的，和台灣、大陸都沒有關係。”

“The very essence of Russian life is communal.”

“This is Egypt, and I am one of its people.”

“Film adalah hasil industri barang perdagangan, hasil cipta kebudayaan, dan alat propaganda, alat penerangan, alat pendidikan.”

“My painting is an act of decolonization—not in a physical sense, but in a mental one.”

“Dân tộc nào để một nền văn hóa ngoại bang ngự trị thì không thể có độc lập thực sự. Văn hóa là tâm hồn của một dân tộc.”

“We cannot do without Urdu.”

“It’s to the detriment of the country when you do not have your own culture represented in the media.”

“The most important thing is that I'm writing in Irish Gaelic.”

“American enterprises need to take more time to study the market situation in Japan and manufacture products the Japanese people will want to buy, instead of expecting too quick results.”

“I cannot accept the concept of total regionalism.”

“Universalism, for me is born from specificity, not the contrary.”

“The Lebanese had created, preserved, defended, affirmed and advanced an expansive and liberal civilization.”

“لغتنا للأسف لا تزال بدوية تلتزم الخيام، وتقنع بالعيش في الوبر، وتحلم بالغيبيات.”

“The patriarchal culture and the discrimination against women, particularly in the Islamic countries, cannot continue for ever.”