Cultural Views
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Speaker
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Quote
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Meaning
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Dwight Eisenhower
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A people that values its
privileges above its principles soon loses both.
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You judge a country with their advantages above their standard
thing and it then both disappear
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Martin Luther King Jr.
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All men are caught in an
inescapable network of mutuality.
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We should treat our selves brilliant because we are linked
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Sheik Zayed
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A nation without a past is a nation without a present or a
future. Thanks to God, our nation has a flourishing civilisation, deep-rooted
in this land for many centuries. These roots will always flourish and bloom
in the glorious present of our nation and in its anticipated future.
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Any country that doesn’t value
its past, can’t appreciate its present or future. This country, thanks to
God, has a rich past, does well for now and its expected future.
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Amin Maalouf
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Every individual is
a meeting ground for many different allegiances, and sometimes these
loyalties conflict with one another and confront the person who harbors them
with difficult choices.
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We have conflux between many things and we have to choose.
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Mahatma Gandhi
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A nation’s culture resides in the
hearts and souls of its people.
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The culture of the country depends on how people loves and
treat people in the country
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Niqab debate
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Traditions deserve to be
respected only insofar as they are respectable – that is, exactly insofar as
they themselves respect the fundamental rights of men and women.
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The traditional should be respected if it respets the rights
of men and women.
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ML King Jr.
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I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia the
sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit
down together at the table of brotherhood.
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God doesn’t care about skin
color. God cares about freedom for everyone.
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Albert Schweitzer
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My humanity is bound up in yours,
for we can only be human together.
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That mean I will treat you like a human if you did the same
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Frank Borman
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There's no question that it was a coffin, and I'd have flown
it gladly
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Looking at the earth from space,
one wonders why we can’t get along decently.
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Pablo Casals
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The love of one’s country is a
splendid thing, but why should it stop at the border?
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One doesn’t simply love
his country but to love others too ( prevents ethnocentrism)
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DD. Eisenhower
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If people of the world can’t get
along, nothing will work.
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Sheik Zayed
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Many
countries go to war and then towards reconciliation. The history of mankind
is full of stories of wars between people and states that have come together
after fighting for long. Why can't Arabs be like them?
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Because most of western society suffered from war and stopped
fighting, and in that period Arabs where split because of the European
imperials
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Martin Luther King, Jr.
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One must not judge a person by his skin but by him personality
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Amin Maalouf
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For it is often the
way we look at other people that imprisons them within their own narrowest
allegiances. And it is also the way we look at them that may set them free.
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When people and treated and looked at in a better way they
will interact better with the rest of the people instead of imprisons
themselves with the fear of social
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