Quotes About Culture

The old debate on whether or not the Chinese or the Vietnamese made the best American food ran through my head. Everyone knew that you couldn't depend on a North American–run place, because gringos just aren't good at such things.

Art is humanity's most essential, most universal language. It is not a frill, but a necessary part of communication.

Religion is not a popular error; it is a great instinctive truth, sensed by the people, expressed by the people.

The culture and civilization of the White man are essentially material; his measure of success is, "How much property have I acquired for myself?" The culture of the Red man is fundamentally spiritual; his measure of success is, "How much service have I rendered to my people?

It is not new nor disastrous that few people read classics. It is new that so many people misread them.

Un nicaragüense no se siente verdaderamente nicaragüense si no ha viajado. Aunque sea a Costa Rica. El nicaragüense adquiere su verdadera nacionalidad hasta que ha viajado".

The word that most perfectly describes the city of Cuzco is evocative. Intangible dust of another era settles on its streets, rising like the disturbed sediment of a muddy lake when you touch its bottom.

Constituimos una sola raza mestiza que desde México hasta el estrecho de Magallanes presenta notables similitudes etnográficas.

While gentrification has tamed El Barrio, it cannot rewrite its past...

Television – a medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well done.

Television – a medium. So called because it is neither rare not well done.

In capitalist society health is the capability to earn, among the Greeks it was the capability to enjoy, and in the Middle Ages the capability to believe.

It was boring like reading a Scandinavian novel.

It is infinitely more appealing to be a criminal than a bourgeois.

Heutzutage trifft man gewöhnlich Leute, in denen der Typus vorwiegt, dem man anmerkt, dass er nur ein Buch gelesen hat.

Quizás al final de este siglo se distingan dos clases de hombres, unos formados por la televisión y otros por la lectura

Le napolitain sait fustiger. Je ne ressens la morsure d'une insulte dans aucune autre langue. M'en lancer une en italien, c'est comme jeter une pierre sur mon ombre et pas sur mon corps.

Pagò il suo vino, non quello della donna, se no l'oste ne avrebbe parlato per l'inverno. In un villaggio bisogna saperci stare. In un posto dove ci si saluta tutti chiamandosi per nome, ci sono usanze sconosciute alla città.

Gender, not religion, is the opiate of the masses.

Whoever tells the best story shapes the culture.

Tell me bout this caveman with the clam moustache been barkin speeches all over Germany.

it was then I recognized that my own values --- the tenets I hold dear as an Englishman --- they are not the only, nor the best, values in existence. I understood there were many ways of being in the world, that to privilege one rigid set of beliefs over another was to lose something.

In any case, it was then I recognized that my own values—the tenets I hold dear as an Englishman—they are not the only, nor the best, values in existence.

dark Portuguese figs we'd given him from our trip to the Serra da Estrela.