Culture Quotes

He wouldn't hear of anybody's paying taxes, though he was very patriotic.

That I growed up a man and not a beast says something for me.

Growing up in Southern California, it's all car culture. When I was a kid, I knew every single model...

We must teach our people the greatness of China's historical culture. In our educational program we ...

She had come to understand that American parenting was a juggling of anxieties, and that it came wit...

The longer she spent in America, the better she had become at distinguishing, sometimes from looks a...

Foreign behavior? What the fuck are you talking about? Foreign behavior? Have you read Things Fall A...

They never said “I don’t know.” They said, instead, “I’m not sure,” which did not give any informati...

Culture does not make people. People make culture. If it is true that the full humanity of women is ...

The refusal to examine Islamic culture and traditions, the sordid dehumanization of Muslims, and the...

Women, porn assets, whether they know it or not, are objects They are whores. These whores deserve t...

The moral nihilism of celebrity culture is played out on reality television shows, most of which enc...

The danger we face does not come from religion. It comes from a growing intellectual bankruptcy that...

Anecdotes came with his DNA.

Staffers tend to mimic their bosses, to take their key from them.

Shared history was the coin of the realm.

Orwell wrote easily and well about small humane pursuits, such as bird watching, gardening and cooki...

'WASP' is the only ethnic term that is in fact a term of class, apart from redneck, which is another...

The United States finds itself with forces of reaction. Do I have to demonstrate this? The Taliban's...

[I]n a place with absolutely no private or personal life, with the incessant worship of a mediocre c...

If you've spent any time trolling the blogosphere, you've probably noticed a peculiar literary trend...

It is impossible to examine questions we refuse to ask.

The practical reality is that any present-tense version of the world is unstable. What we currently ...

And the quality all these reasonable failures share is an inability to accept that the statue quo is...

The world happens as it happens, but we construct what we remember and what we forget. And people wi...

And if something is only itself, it doesn't particularly matter.

It's difficult to cope with the infinite variety of the past, and so we apply filters and settle on ...

And I'm probably wrong. Maybe not completely, but partially. And maybe not today, but eventually.

The first step - especially for young people with energy and drive and talent, but not money - the f...

And if you can find any way out of our culture, then that's a trap too. Just wanting to get out of t...

If today you can take a thing like evolution and make it a crime to teach it in the public school, t...

The more we claim to discriminate between cultures and customs as good and bad, the more completely ...

It may be in the cultural particularities of people — in their oddities — that some of the most inst...

Cultural analysis is intrinsically incomplete. And, worse than that, the more deeply it goes the les...

A religion is a system of symbols which acts to establish powerful, pervasive, and long-lasting mood...

Understanding a people's culture exposes their normalness without reducing their particularity...It ...

Since the end of the postwar economic boom, certain strategies have been intensified to stimulate co...

And every historic effort to forge a democratic project has been undermined by two fundamental reali...

A nation lives forever through its concepts, honour, and culture. It is for these reasons that the r...

Its culture: the fruit of its life, the product of its own efforts in thought and art. This culture ...

Misunderstanding a culture's symbols is a common root of predujice.

Suppose we were able to share meanings freely without a compulsive urge to impose our view or confor...

Cultural contamination that is directed outward is always seen as ‘enlightenment.

(A middle-class child's) parents didn't just give him money. They passed down habits, knowledge, and...

There are heroes and schmucks in all worlds. The most important thing is whether you are willing to ...

Fixate on whole cultures, not specific pieces of poverty. No specific intervention is going to turn ...

What's interesting about the shift from an industrial age to a technological age is that we keep inv...

My first plays were amazingly bad, but I had a teacher who thought I had promise, and he kept workin...

I am a passionate traveler, and from the time I was a child, travel formed me as much as my formal e...

The uniqueness of every soul is not a theme that our current culture, obsessed with group identities...

I'm a culture vulture, and I just want to experience it all.

New Age values are conscious evolution, a non-sectarian society, a non-military culture, global shar...

The '60s redefined narcissism as idealism.

The Left is doing to America what it has done to almost everything it has deeply influenced - the ar...

There’s a larger point to be made here than my own obtuseness, which is the fragility, beauty, and a...

To reverse the effects of civilization would destroy the dreams of a lot of people. There's no way a...

My mother never made me do anything for my brothers, like serve them. I think that's an important le...

It's no accident that my first novel was called Americana. This was a private declaration of indepen...

I used to think it was possible for an artist to alter the inner life of the culture. Now bomb-maker...

A white-boy attitude is 'I must exclude, denigrate, and leave behind.' They don't see it or think ab...

We are all of us, to some degree or another, brainwashed by the society we live in. We are able to s...

[N]othing about a book is so unmistakable and so irreplaceable as the stamp of the cultured mind. I ...

When future archaeologists dig up the remains of California, they're going to find all of those gyms...

To have a healthy culture, you have to have stable health care financing and stable arts financing a...

While her lips talked culture, her heart was planning to invite him to tea

If there is a religious agency in our lives, it has to appear in the manner of our times. Not from o...

A matter neither sensual nor sensational is ignored by the art of today.

Culture had worked in her own case, but during the last few weeks she had doubted whether it humaniz...

Medora Manson, in her prosperous days, inaugurated a "literary salon"; but it had soon died out owin...

If ever we should find ourselves disposed not to admire those writers or artists, Livy and Virgil fo...

To make the distinction unmistakably clear: Civilization is the vital force in human history; cultur...

Our culture runs on coffee and gasoline, the first often tasting like the second.

I am not interested in living in a city where there isn't a production by Samuel Beckett running.

No one today is purely one thing. Labels like Indian, or woman, or Muslim, or American are not more ...

Without memory, there is no culture. Without memory, there would be no civilization, no society, no ...

writers like Jack Kerouac (who called himself an "urban Thoreau") set forth to redefine and rediscov...

The struggle of democratic secularism, religious tolerance, individual freedom and feminism against ...

The more hideous the mental contortions, the greater the delight and bravos of the mass.

The other dangerous delusion from which those who are wilfully or otherwise blind to realities suffe...

Working in Britain, particularly in the public services, they should be prepared to accept the terms...

The Labour party on the whole has not been a very effective opposition since the election, partly be...

Modernism in Vienna brought together science and culture in a new way to create an Age of Insight th...

If man were infinitely malleable, there would have been nor revolutions; there would have been no ch...

Both the mentally healthy and the neurotic are driven by the need to find an answer [to the problem ...

If a writer of prose knows enough about what he is writing about he may omit things that he knows an...

I just think music is so intrinsically linked with images in the culture that we live in that you'll...

Culture cannot be separated from politics. The arts, philosophy and metaphysics, religion and the sc...

In the Mexican culture, we never miss a baptism, a birthday, a baby shower, a wedding shower, a wedd...

When the waterholes were dry, people sought to drink at the mirage.

Civilization is in fact the longest story of all. Civilization can persist through a series of econo...

Chinese combatants, men and women, inheritors of a millennial culture, are people of uncommon intell...

...quality of life lies in knowledge, in culture. Values are what constitute true quality of life, t...

The creative process is a cocktail of instinct, skill, culture and a highly creative feverishness. I...

The creative process is a cocktail of instinct, skill, culture and a highly creative feverishness. I...

The creative process is a cocktail of instinct, skill, culture and a highly creative feverishness. I...

The creative process is a cocktail of instinct, skill, culture and a highly creative feverishness. I...

Two ideas are opposed — not concepts or abstractions, but Ideas which were in the blood of men befor...

Noble life demands a noble architecture for noble uses of noble men. Lack of culture means what it h...

I was once asked to pick a couple of records for an interview I was doing on Radio 2. I picked one b...

I was once asked to pick a couple of records for an interview I was doing on Radio 2. I picked one b...