Quotes About Culture

I went to a cafe that advertised breakfast anytime, so I ordered French Toast during the Renaissance.

Support bacteria - they're the only culture some people have.

If Barbie is so popular, why do you have to buy her friends?

I wouldn't like to be in movies. Movie people are strange. They live a different life than musicians do.

Music is a world within itself, with a language we all understand.

Music is a world within itself, with a language we all can understand.

More than 150 types of boats appear in Egyptian hieroglyphics.

Alan said he'd known what to expect from de St Jorre from the kick-off, since in his preface this cretin speaks of banned books being burnt in the same way heretics were burnt by religious tyrants. Alan was quick to denounce the cruel inhumanity of liberal fuckwits who wantonly blurred the lines between human life and products of a literary culture that had yet to escape its commodity form.

Beer for breakfast, ale for lunch, stout with dinner and a few mugs in between. The average Northern European, including women and children drank three liters of beer a day. That's almost two six-packs, but often the beer had a much higher alcoholic content. People in positions of power, like the police, drank much more. Finnish soldiers were given a ration of five liters of strong ale a day (about as much as seven six-packs). Monks in Sussex made do with 12 cans worth.

We all know how it went when Europe changed from a culture addicted to depressants to one high on stimulants [...] Within two hundred years of Europe's first cup, famine and the plague were historical footnotes. Governments became more democratic, slavery vanished, and the standards of living and literacy went through the roof. War became less frequent and more horrible.

Only two questions, however, need concern the civilized creature. Why is traditional kosher wine so second-rate (it is often boiled); and, if Muslims and Jews are the only people whose laws make them (almost) each other's ideal dinner guests, why can't they get along?

The city was a puzzle box built of symbols, a confusion of old and new, armored cars and donkeys in the streets, Bedouins and bankers. The Turks and Haredim, the showy Greek and Russian processions -- everyone seemed to be in costume, reenacting the miraculous past.

I don't drink coffee I take tea my dear I like my toast done on one side ..." ( Englishman in New York )

Civilization, as it is often practiced today, is really manufactured, inauthentic civilization

Men were worshipped in Caradore.

Family closeness was not an attribute that could be applied to the Malagashes.

The Mewts have an almost holy regard for beautiful boys beloved of kings, and Alofel was aware of this. Mewtish folklore was plump with tales about the mysterious, sacrosanct relationship of male lovers, whereas the Cossics were far more casual about these lessons. Most Cossic noblemen had wives and boys, but there was really little distinction between them.

My city could not help but be conducive to creative thought. Who knows what new myths might spring from the juxtaposition of so many fabulous designs?

Everyone carried guns. It was difficult to determine who was male and who was female.

I had already gathered that the creative people in Sacramante were held in an almost holy regard.

You have to remember we are in a part of the world where prejudice and injustice against women is high.

In the manner of young males finding themselves in the presence of a superior speciman of their kind, who was clearly a member of a different youth culture to their own, they began to make insulting remarks, which grew even louder as they approached the car.

The organizing theme of 1 Corinthians is how to live as a Christian in an increasingly secular world.

culture comes into play at precisely the point where biological individuals become subjects, and that what lies between the two is not some automatically constituted 'natural' process of socialization but much more complex processes of formation