Quotes About Culture

Le pays latins, comme les pays d'Orient, oppriment la femme par le rigueur des moeurs encore plus que par celle des lois.

psychoanalysts in particular define man as a human being and woman as a female: every time she acts like a human being, the woman is said to be imitating the male.

The Koran treats women with the most absolute contempt.

When I was a child, when I was an adolescent, books saved me from despair: that convinced me that culture was the highest of values, and it is impossible for me to examine this conviction with an objective eye.

No se nace mujer: se llega a serlo. Ningún destino biológico, económico, define la imagen que reviste en el seno de la sociedad la hembra humana; el conjunto de la civilización elabora este producto intermedio entre el macho y el castrado que se suele calificar de femenino. Sólo la intermediación ajena puede convertir un individuo en alteridad.

Aucun destin biologique, psychique, économique ne définit la figure que revêt au sein de la societé la femelle humain; c'est l'ensemble de la civilisation qui élabore ce produit intermédiaire entre le mâle et le castrat qu'on qualifie de féminin.

Ningún hombre consentiría en ser mujer, pero todos desean que haya mujeres.

On ne peut pas mener une vie correcte dans une société qui ne l'est pas?

Na boca do homem o epíteto «fêmea» soa como um insulto; no entanto, ele não se envergonha da sua animalidade, sente-se, ao contrário, orgulhoso se dizem dele: «É um macho!» O termo «fêmea» é pejorativo, não porque enraíza a mulher na Natureza, mas porque a confina ao seu sexo.

But I was brought up on convent morals and paternal nationalism, I was getting bogged down in contradictions.

Essere donna non è un dato naturale, ma il risultato di una storia. Non c'è un destino biologico e psicologico che definisce la donna in quanto tale. Tale destino è la conseguenza della storia della civiltà, e per ogni donna la storia della sua vita.

Ce ne sont pas les individus qui sont responsables de l'échec du mariage: c'est l'institution elle-même qui est originellement pervertie

Cuando era niña, cuando era adolescente, los libros me salvaron de la desesperación: eso me convenció de que la cultura era el valor más alto.

Culture is an instrument wielded by professors to manufacture professors who when their time comes, will manufacture professors.

A görögök nem ismerték a jog fogalmát. Még szavuk sem volt rá. Beérték az igazság nevével.

Christianity in China from 150 years prior to the time of its inscription, circa 780.

He regarded spats, walking sticks, caviar, titles, tea-drinking, poetry not daily syndicated in newspapers, and all foreigners, possibly excepting the British, as degenerate.

Why, there's no country in the world that can get more hysterical—yes, or more obsequious!—than America.

To be "intellectual" or "artistic" or, in their own word, to be "highbrow," is to be priggish and of dubious virtue.

American whose fathers have lived in the country for over two generations is so utterly different from any other American.

I wonder if the small town isn't, with some lovely exceptions, a social appendix?

Actually, the great traveler is usually a small mussy person in a faded green fuzzy hat, inconspicuous in a corner of the steamer bar. He speaks only one language, and that gloomily. He knows all the facts about nineteen countries, except the home-lives, wage- scales, exports, religions, politics, agriculture, history and languages of those countries. He is as valuable as Baedeker in regard to hotels and railroads, only not so accurate.

An American thinks of a good cook as a low person; a European respects him as an artist.

The European, the aristocrat, feels that he is responsible to past generations to carry on the culture they have formed. He feels that graciousness, agreeable manners, loyalty to his own people, are more important