Jon Huntsman Jr. Quotes

If you want to know what's important to a culture, learn their language.

Learn to understand the culture of those that you wish to influence.

Without knowing the language of a people, we never really know their thoughts, their feelings, and their type of character.

But what I'm very interested in, whether it's writing, whether it's hosting a show, whether it's cooking food, I'm just into the discussions of identity, culture and the politics of culture.

People have to start talking to know more about other cultures and to understand each other.

One can never be certain what is in the mind of the oriental but we must leave the oriental no doubt what is in our mind.

You can't escape culture. You can learn about it. You can criticize it. You can try to move it slowly. But at the end of the day, you can't actually opt out of the culture that you're in.

Culture is a part of basic human nature, of deep humanity.

Culture is something that we all share, and we are all the poorer for anyone excluded from it.

I deal with cultural issues whether they be in the Middle East, Far East, the Orient or the West. You broach questions in the context of their culture and then present Christian answers.

I'm a British intern going in. I'm hoping that John will just kind of tackle it from who this person is and what she's about rather than trying to go in on her culture. We need to move a step forward than that.

Language is like money, without which specific relative values may well exist and be felt, but cannot be reduced to a common denominator.

Culture is a little like dropping an Alka-Seltzer into a glass - you don't see it, but somehow it does something.

Culture is the air we breathe all around us.

The point of my work is to show that culture and education aren't simply hobbies or minor influences.

If we can't understand the Afghan family, we can't understand Afghanistan.

Culture is the widening of the mind and of the spirit.

What does culture want? To make infinity comprehensible.

Culture is about the mindset of people, and we are very happy to have a strong combined mindset of people.

Whenever I hear the word culture, I reach for my Browning!

People in the Middle East may consider the U.S. an evil hegemony that has tainted their culture, but when I look at the growth of racial and ethnic tolerance and understanding in my generation in the U.S., and see those sentiments make it around the world, it makes me feel proud.

I have a great relationship with the Mexican people.

Believing in each culture's right to be understood by the other party without any form of falseness or distortion is paramount.

It’s very important that all of us who have bicultural roots retain our culture.

Value the perspective of different cultures and recognize the cultural mores that underpin groups and appreciate why these are valued and important.