Olive in Human Culture
- Ethnography
- Sometimes people of what in the early 20th century was called the Mediterranean subrace of the Caucasian race are metaphorically described as being "olive-skinned", to denote shades of medium toned white skin that is darker than the average color for Caucasians, such as many people from southern Italy. (There are many varieties of olives—some olives are colored a pale brown color.)
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Famous quotes containing the words olive, human and/or culture:
“Peace puts forth her olive everywhere.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“Friendship is nothing else than an accord in all things, human and divine, conjoined with mutual goodwill and affection, and I am inclined to think that, with the exception of wisdom, no better thing has been given to man by the immortal gods”
—Marcus Tullius Cicero (106–43 B.C.)
“Cynicism makes things worse than they are in that it makes permanent the current condition, leaving us with no hope of transcending it. Idealism refuses to confront reality as it is but overlays it with sentimentality. What cynicism and idealism share in common is an acceptance of reality as it is but with a bad conscience.”
—Richard Stivers, U.S. sociologist, educator. The Culture of Cynicism: American Morality in Decline, ch. 1, Blackwell (1994)