Quotes About Culture

There are still ancient symbols alive

I know that there are many essential biological differences between the sexes, of course. But not so many 'culturally-mandated' differences. In First World countries we've evolved beyond mere biology -it isn't the fate of the human female to be pregnant continously until she wears out and dies.

Boxing has become America's tragic theater.

Marx had famously denounced religion as the opiate of the people, now it was Fame that was the opiate of the people;

You are indeed a victim of our culture's mercenary exploitation of feminine innocence.

Civilization is faces, appearances: when these collapse, civilization collapses as well.

Mulheres eram especialistas em chorar, assim como os homens eram humilhados e impedidos de chorar. Mulheres eram purificadas pelo choro, assim como os homens eram maculados e manchados pelo choro.

You may put this in your interview, Miss Fife, that Robert Frost believes in civilization—which is to say the Caucasian civilization." "But

The Professor looked like a Protestant saint when the cannibal offered him the choice of taking six wives or being boiled alive. He wanted to mortify some flesh, but he didn't know which.

As religion starts to mix with politics, we have a culture that allows us to fall behind what were previously third world nations, because we are now treating science the way we did sex in the 1950s, banning or burying evolution theories and research into promising lifesaving areas such as stem-cell research.

A person is from wherever they feel best, and roots are for plants. Everyone knows that, don't they?

Why does Switzerland look like one big cuckoo clock to me? Dan asked. Because you have no sould, Amy answered.

Are we not, ethically speaking, obligated to stop its (violence) further dissemination, to consider our role in instigating it, and to forment and cultivate another sense of a culturally and religiously diverse global political culture?

L'incapacité à reconnaître les processus culturels spécifiques de l'oppression de genre elle-même n'est-elle pas une forme d'impérialisme épistémologique?

Elizabeth's entire body started to tremble as his lips began descending to hers. and she sought to forestall what her heart knew was inevitable by reasoning with him. "A gently bred Englishwoman," she shakily quoted Lucinda's lecture. "feels nothing stronger than affection. We do not fall in love." His warm lips covered hers. "I'm a Scot," he murmured huskily. "We do.

Ne tuhaf deÄŸil mi? diye devam etti.Biz kibarlar, uygar davran??lar?m?zla övünürüz ama birbirimizi yemeyi en güzel yemeklere tercih ederiz.

Victoria lifted her chin. "In my country, Mr. Fielding, it is considered ill-bred to argue at the table." Her veiled reprimand filled him with amusement. "How very inconvenient for you," he remarked softly.

You are transformed into one of the gypsy ancestors we have never discussed.

Mourning suits us Spanish women. Tragedy turns us into Antigone - maybe we are bred for the part.

I lived in New York for eleven and a half years and I don't think anybody ever asked me about my religion. I never even thought about it. Now, all of a sudden, it was the big thing in my life.

Eleanor Gordon was the most sophisticated in their crowd. She read The New Yorker.

The best way to learn a foreign language is to fuck interesting foreigners.

Historically, women have either been excluded from the process of creating the definitions of what is considered art or allowed to participate only if we accept and work within existing mainstream designations. If women have no real role as women in the process of defining art, then we are essentially prevented from helping to shape cultural symbols.

Judith Butler, for example, has argued that men's and women's interests are not objectively given, but are collectively created.