Quotes About Culture

But Honeybun,' I would counter, 'you can't have real love without respect.' 'That is not true in Russia. You either love or you respect. You can not do both.' 'How do you mean?' 'With love you have jealousy, possessiveness, and many other emotions and passions which make respect impossible. We know that in Russia, therefore we accept it.

we'll start right in on the knishes, or the kreplach, or the knaidlach, or the varnishkes, or the pirogen, or the blintzes.

We helped ourselves to a drop of vishniak, had some more marmalade, and made small talk. What about? Don't ask me.

An utshebe zavadyenye may be out of the question, but there's not a barishnye who wouldn't like to be znakome with Zola, Pushkin, or dazhe Gorky …" So she says to me, my beauty, half in Yiddish and half in Russian, although the Russian was more like two-thirds.

Male) culture was (and is) parasitical, feeding on the emotional strength of women without reciprocity.

It would take a denial of all cultural tradition for women to produce even a true 'female' art. For a woman who participates in (male) culture must achieve and be rated by standards of a tradition she had no part in making - and certainly there is no room in that tradition for a female view, even if she could discover what it was.

It is only after we have integrated the dark side of the moon into our world view that we can begin to talk seriously of universal culture.

Women and love are underpinnings. Examine them and you threaten the very structure of culture.

the end goal of feminist revolution must be...not just the elimination of male privilage but of the sex distinction itself: genital differences between human beings would no longer matter culturally.

Men mold some cities, some cities mold men.

was not fond of Americans. He found them rude, materialistic and naïve.

average Russian reads three times as many books a year as the average United States citizen.

Just remember,' Mary told the children, 'when someone has an accent, it means that he knows one more language than you do

Some cities are shaped by people, and some cities shape people.

America is a mistake, a giant mistake.

Beauty has no obvious use; nor is there any clear cultural necessity for it. Yet civilization could not do without it.

The liberty of the individual is no gift of civilization. It was greatest before there was any civilization.

It is impossible to overlook the extent to which civilization is built up upon a renunciation of instinct....

Thus we arrive at the singular conclusion that of all the information passed by our cultural assets it is precisely the elements which might be of the greatest importance to us and which have the task of solving the riddles of the universe and of reconciling us to the sufferings of life -- it is precisely those elements that are the least well authenticated of any.

This is one race of people for whom psychoanalysis is of no use whatsoever. [speaking about the Irish]

what we know to be useless, but expect civilization to value, is beauty;

Individual liberty is not an asset of civilization.

We are saying much the same thing when we derive the antithesis between civilization and sexuality from the circumstance that sexual love is a relationship between two individuals in which a third can only be superfluous or disturbing, whereas civilization depends on relationships between a considerable number of individuals.

One should not belittle the advantage that is enjoyed by a fairly small cultural circle, which is that it allows the aggressive drive an outlet in the form of hostility to outsiders. It is always possible to bind quite large numbers of people together in love, provided that others are left out as targets for aggression.