Devdutt Pattanaik Quotes

The nice thing with the Arabs is that with age comes respect.

A woman’s good goes to her husband and her bad to her kin.

The crown could go to a person with the most talent. But how could ‘most talent’ be determined? So Indian society settled on age.

I'm sure mothers are important across every culture, but particularly in Korean society, the role of the mother is of great importance.

That's something the head scarf, in a symbolic way, is meant to do in Arabic culture: it defines your relationship to your husband and the men of your family differently than your relationship to the average guy on the street you've never met.

Realists assert that a tradition so deeply ingrained in a people is bound to permeate the life of West Africa for so long as racial memory functions, and that gift-giving and perquisite-taking (words more polite than bribery and corruption) have always stimulated the roots of African business and social relationships.

We didn't do cotillions or anything. My family made fun of the pageants.

Today, youths say 'Hi and Bye' even to their parents. Instead, they should touch parents' feet as a mark of respect.

Look at the Native American culture. They revere the elders.

Age was respected among his people, but achievement was revered. As the elders said, if a child washed his hands he could eat with kings.

When I was signed, at the age of 23...the fact that I presented myself as an out gay man was very, very unusual.

He was a hero to his valet, who bullied him, and a terror to most of his relations, whom he bullied in turn. Only England could have produced him, and he always said that the country was going to the dogs. His principles were out of date, but there was a good deal to be said for his prejudices.

Within a social structure, a familial structure, or a cultural structure of various kinds, there is a substitute for actual freedom. I mean, actual freedom is a very abstract notion; we have no idea what it means, except within a context - freedom to do what? So within these social structures, freedom becomes defined as power, your ability to make choices, and the power relationship within a family, any family.

Where I was raised a woman's word was law. I ain't quite outgrowed that yet.

In the present age, a man with harmonious ideas is regarded as out of touch.

... wife and children are a kind of discipline of humanity.

Men were valued by what they did, women by how they looked and then by what their husbands did, and all of life was arranged (or so we thought) from the outside in.

Many people who attack me know so little of that larger Tradition, and end up being not very traditional at all. When you invoke the whole and great Tradition, you end up scaring people who call 1950 America "traditional" Christianity. It is just what they are used to in their one limited lifetime.

The liberal, of course, does not deny that there are some superior people – he is not an egalitarian – but he denies that anyone has authority to decide who these superior people are.

I think the fact that father is running now as opposed to in 2012 where he didn't that he's had enough faith in myself and my siblings to be able to run the company.We've got tens of thousands of people that are under his direct employ. Those people, he wouldn't leave a company and leave those people and their lives and everything they've put into it at risk if he didn't think there was competent leadership to take over after him.

Tradition sometimes excludes the girl child from inheriting; or single women may not want to be perceived as pursuing too much property. The law has come a long way in favor of the woman, but it is the tradition, the attitudes, that we often have to fight.

Man does not create gods, in spite of appearances. The times, the age, impose them on him.

Men and women must be educated, in a great degree, by the opinions and manners of the society they live in. In every age there has been a stream of popular opinion that has carried all before it, and given a family character, as it were, to the century. It may then fairly be inferred, that, till society be differently constituted, much cannot be expected from education.

Ever wonder why people are so determined to reach for white picket fences, supposed normalcy, a nuclear family? Well, try growing up without one.

Despite my being an old gypsy there is a tendency to respectability inherent in old age.