Quotes About Ethnocentrism

#1. Religion has failed us. Christ was not a Christian. Buddha was not a Buddhist. Mohammed was not a Mohammedan. And yet ever since the dawn of history, we have engaged in conflict and war and terrorism and murder and racism and ethnocentrism and bigotry and prejudice in the name of God.

Deepak Chopra

#2. Simple peck-order bullying is only the beginning of the kind of hierarchical behavior that can lead to racism, sexism, ethnocentrism, classism, and all the other 'isms' that cause so much suffering in the world.

Octavia E. Butler

#3. People are prone to ethnocentrism. It is an uncomfortable fact that even when given a guilt-free choice, individuals prefer the company of others of the same race, nation, clan, and religion. They

Edward O. Wilson

#4. Human societies, at least the more advanced cultures, have rarely offered the individual anything but imperialism, racism, and ethnocentrism for dealing with "other" cultures.

Edward W. Said

#5. ethnocentrism is a fundamental fact of the human condition.

Craig Storti

#6. If it's important to you, you will find a way. If not, you'll find an excuse.

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#7. Where have you gone, Joe DiMaggio? A nation turns its lonely eyes to you.

Paul Simon

#8. Those were the good mornings, when the sun was hot and the air was quick and promising, when the Real Business seemed right on the verge of happening and I felt that if I went just a little faster I might overtake that bright and fleeting thing that was always just ahead.

Hunter S. Thompson

#9. One of the matters that must be addressed is that Rwanda and Uganda have to leave the Democratic Republic of the Congo. We're also supporting processes to ensure that the political dialogue among the Congolese themselves takes place so that the people there can decide their future.

Thabo Mbeki

#10. The generation of consumers who swallow this pessimistic sentiment can't see past the product to its debased morality. Instead, their excitement about The Dark Knight's dread (that teenage thrall with subversion) inspires their fealty to product.

Armond White

#11. Get out and make films. There are so many cameras now to suit any budget, so there are no excuses.

Nick Park

#12. My father was a GP; my mother was a teacher and amateur actress. My father was a bit of a storyteller, but the acting influence must have been from her - yes, put it down to my mother.

Ciaran Hinds

#13. Poetry is as necessary to comprehension as science. It is as impossible to live without reverence as it is without joy.

Henry Beston

#14. Is it possible that in all those years she left me nothing of herself, or, worse, that I didn't want to keep anything of her? It is. This

Elena Ferrante

#15. Yet such is oft the course of deeds that move the wheels of the world: small hands do them because they must, while the eyes of the great are elsewhere.' 'Very

J.R.R. Tolkien

#16. The Kingdom of God wasn't born on the Fourth of July.

Matt Chandler

#17. I hope that, reading 'Rosa,' people will remember their own family and friends and talk about what they did and did not do.

Nikki Giovanni

#18. I'll go anywhere as long as it's forward.

David Livingstone

#19. I don't like the idea of 'I've played nine years, I've made some All-Star teams, I make the most money. I've got to be a leader.' That doesn't make you a leader. Treating people the right way is more important.

Matt Holliday

#20. Love believes all things and yet is never deceived.

Soren Kierkegaard

#21. If you can see a bandwagon, it's too late to get on.

Lee Child