Quotes About Culture

Forgetting, I would even say historical error, is essential to the creation of a nation, which is why the advance of historical study often poses a threat to nationality.

Human beings do not enter into society and political life as a result of conscious, rational decision. Communal organization comes to them naturally, though the specific ways they cooperate are shaped by environment, ideas, and culture. Indeed

in some sense, it was the tyranny of cousins that allowed Indians to resist the tyranny of tyrants.

Fin de siècle Vienna was a melting pot that had produced Gustav Mahler, Hugo von Hofmannsthal, and Sigmund Freud. But when the empire's narrower national identities—Serbs, Bulgarians, Czechs, and Austro-Germans—asserted themselves, the region descended into a paroxysm of violence and intolerance.

If morality is reducible to culture, then there can be no real moral progress. For the only way one can say that a culture is getting better , or progressing, is if there are objective moral norms that are not dependent on culture to which a society may draw closer.

The Greeks did not understand each other any longer, though they spoke Greek.

We have been born into a certain Culture, at a certain phase of its organic development, we have certain gifts. These condition the earthly task which we must perform. The metaphysical task is beyond any conditioning, for it would have been the same in any age anywhere. The earthly task is merely the form of the higher task, its organic vehicle.

But there is, alas, no doubt that we are becoming a vocabulary-deprived nation—nay, planet. Words have been dropping off all through this century, but the loss increased radically in the sixties with the immorality of "limited vocabulary.

En el horizonte lo que se vislumbra es el fascismo y la única forma de evitarlo, de caer en esas arenas movedizas, es recuperando el humanismo.

Es evidente que la moral católica fue, es y será una de las causas más evidentes del atraso mexicano…

Después de cuarenta años de españolismo franquista, la verdad es que vivimos y respiramos muy a gusto siendo sencillamente españoles.

Parece que hoy toca hablar de Madrid. Madrid es una gran ciudad, o por lo menos una ciudad grande.

Between France and Senegal there's a history. There's a language that we both speak. There's a culture that we share and to which both of our peoples have contributed. But beyond our history, beyond our language, beyond the links that have united us for so long, what unites us today is the future.

A man loses contact with reality if he is not surrounded by his books.

Horrible the fate of the advice-giver in our culture: to repeat oneself in a thousand contexts until death, or irrelevance. * I abjure advice-giver.

Werther s-a sinucis, apoi tineri din toat? Europa l-au urmat ?i s-au sinucis ?i ei, mai pu?in autorul lui, Goethe, viclean maestru al practicii, a tr?it.

What I told you tonight - it isn't my story alone. It belongs to every Irish person living and dead. And every Irish person living and dead belongs to it. And to all the story of Ireland; blood and bones, legends, guns and dreams, Catholics, Protestants, England, horses and poets and lovers.

To have come from Ireland no matter how long ago is to be of Ireland in some part forever.

Even in the most favourable periods for cultural development , Intellectuals tend to have uneasy relationship with the status quo.

After a lifetime of soft, easy living in the West, one's buttocks take an awful hammering out here. Backpacking around India is just one long round of sitting on bone-hard, chafing, bruising and generally uncomfortable seats-whether in buses our trains, or restaurants or cinemas. There is no such thing as a padded seat in the whole country.

All fine architectural values are human values, else not valuable.

TV is chewing gum for the eyes.

All fine architectural values are human vales, else not valuable.

Television: chewing gum for the eyes.