Quotes About Culture

I can speak Esperanto like a native.

Apéritif: French for a set of dentures.

Many people die of thirst but the Irish are born with one.

Architecture is a social act and the material theater of human activity.

Agriculture is for living; mind culture is for life. Skills are for shaping material things so that they cater more for the comfort of man; studies are for shaping attitudes, feelings, desires, emotions and impulses of man, so that they may confer more peace, more joy and more fortitude on man.

Who needs a French man when there is French cheese? Half as stinky and twice as smart.

I'm pretty sure if Socrates ever met a Kardashian, he'd have gone into the first bar and ordered himself a double hemlock straight up with a twist.

Good" and "Bad" may be alien concepts to him, Ben.

Does every pickup in Idaho come complete with a dog in the back?

PotÄ™ga frazesu byÅ'a i jest w Polsce arcypotÄ™gÄ…. DziaÅ'a ona na mózg polski zupeÅ'nie tak, jak du?a butla spirytusu.

For any culture which is primarily concerned with meaning, the study of death - the only certainty that life holds for us - must be central, for an understanding of death is the key to liberation in life.

The fact that so many different cultures throughout human history have found shamanic techniques useful and relevant suggests that the holotropic states engage what the anthropologists call the "primal mind," a basic and primordial aspect of the human psyche that transcends race, gender, culture, and historical period.

What I require is a convening of my culture's criteria, in order to confront them with my words and life as I pursue them; and at the same time to confront my words and life as I pursue them with the life my culture's words may imagine for me: to confront the culture with itself, along the lines in which it meets me.

Denial may be neither a matter of telling the truth nor intentionally telling a lie. There seem to be states of mind, or even whole cultures, in which we know and don't know at the same time.

In Ellington, we hear the story of the Negro, maybe the most American of Americans.

If the Aborigine drafted an I.Q. test, all of Western civilization would presumably flunk it.

But the culture has failed, almost entirely, in inculcating internal controls on actions that have their origin in authority. For this reason, the latter constitutes a far greater danger to human survival.

To a certain extent a museum is a kind of zoo, a presenter and preserver of what

Associate with well-mannered persons and your manners will improve. Run around with decent folk and your own decent instincts will be strengthened.

I always think in this connection of the Rumanian saying my in-laws use when they see an extremely obese person: "So, you ate what you wanted.

To this day, the percentage of abstainers in the United States—about one-third of the adult population—is, along with Ireland's, the highest among Western nations.

In a culture where profit has become the true God, self-sacrifice can seem incomprehensible rather than noble.

In spite of shared cultural traits, ancient Greeks owed their fundamental political loyalty to their city-state, or polis, rather than to some unitary Greek state, while Byzantine emperors did not see themselves as the heirs to ancient Athens or Sparta.

It is generally accepted that getting rich is the only and typical goal of the Jew. Nothing could be further from the truth. Riches are to him merely a stepping stone, a means to the true end, and in no sense the real goal. The real determination of the Jew is to rise to a higher cultural plane in the intellectual world.