"The universalist approach is roughly: 'What is good and right can be defined and always applies.' In particularist cultures far greater attention is given to the obligations of relationships and unique circumstances."

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Source : Fons Trompenaars, Charles Hampden-Turner (2011). “Riding the Waves of Culture: Understanding Diversity in Global Business”, p.16, Nicholas Brealey Publishing

Fons Trompenaars

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“The Arabs will have to go, but one needs an opportune moment for making it happen, such as a war.”
“Incidentally, part of a photographerâ€™s gift should be with people. You can do some wonderful work if you know how to make people understand what youâ€™re doing and feel all right about it, and you can do terrible work if you put them on the defense, which they all are at the beginning. Youâ€™ve got to take them off their defensive attitude and make them participate.”
“I want my teammates to understand that when No. 5 says something to you, that means it's very important because he doesn't talk a lot. If I'm saying something to you, it's going to help you.”
“Packing is my pet hate.”
“At a certain point in history monuments became associated with kitsch, (it had never previously been so) and one might well ask why this unforeseen aesthetic and ethnic debasement of their values came about, or why monuments have not adapted to the times. Perhaps, instead of evoking authentic religious, patriotic or mystical sentiments, they evoke only the customary ersatz for these sentiments and have suffered the fate of becoming sentimental.”
“A simple rule, to be followed whether one is in the light or not, gives backbone to one's spiritual life, as nothing else can.”
“Through all history, from the beginning, a noble army of martyrs have fought fiercely and fallen bravely for that unseen mistress, their country. So, through all history, to the end, as long as men believe in God that army must still march and fall, recruited only from the flower of mankind, cheered only by their own hope of humanity, strong only in the confidence of their cause.”
“A nation of sheep will beget a government of wolves.”

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