Quotes About Culture

Therefore, anthropology, the study of man, should be the core of every other discipline. Someday, it will.

I asked him if there was a way in which he could accept just my desire to learn, as if I were an Indian.

There's no such thing as dead languages, only dormant minds.

Books hold no passports. There's only one true literary tradition: the human.

Television is the Antichrist, and I can assure you after only three or four generations, people will no longer even know how to fart on their own and humans will return to medieval savagery and to the general state of imbecility that slugs overcame back in the Pleistocene era. Our world will not die as a result of the bomb...it will die of laughter, of banality, of making a joke of everything and a lousy joke at that.

El nivel de barbarie de una sociedad se mide por la distancia que intenta poner entre las mujeres y los libros.

Do you know what religion is, Martin, my friend? -I can barely remember Lord's Prayer. -A beautiful and well-crafted prayer. Poetry aside, a religion is really a moral code that is expressed through legends,myths, or any type of literary device in order to establish a system of beliefs, values , and rules with which to regulate a culture or a society.

The cinema began as an invention for entertaining the illiterate masses. Fifty years on, it's much the same.

Poetry aside, a religion is really a moral code, that is expressed through legends, myths, or any type of literary device in order to establish a system of belifs, values, and rules with which to regulate a culture or a society.

una religión viene a ser un código moral que se expresa mediante leyendas, mitos o cualquier tipo de artefacto literario a fin de establecer un sistema de creencias, valores y normas con los que regular una cultura o una sociedad.

Poetry aside, a religion is really a moral code that is expressed through legends, myths or any type of literary device in order to establish a system of beliefs, values and rules with which to regulate a culture or a society.

Americans are inventing something called television, which will be like the cinema, only at home. There'll be no more need for books, or churches, or anything.

Poesía aparte, una religión viene a ser un código moral que se expresa mediante leyendas, mitos o cualquier tipo de artefacto literario a fin de establecer un sistema de creencias, valores y normas con los que regular una cultura o una sociedad.

A televisão, amigo Daniel, é o Anticristo, e digo-lhe que bastarão três ou quatro gerações para que as pessoas não saibam nem dar peidos por sua conta...

La mayoría de las tradiciones no son más que las enfermedades de una sociedad.

París es la única ciudad del mundo donde morirse de hambre todavía es considerado un arte.

La meritocrazia e il clima mediterraneo sono di necessità incompatibili. È il prezzo che paghiamo per avere il miglior olio d'oliva d mondo, immagino.

A couple of days without a dictator, and you Spaniards have already become bisexual.

Il sistema più efficace per rendere inoffensivi i poveri è insegnare loro a imitare i ricchi.»

Popolo ingegnoso gli svizzeri... Orologi e cioccolatini: l'essenza della vita.

Creo en la literatura. Y a ratos en el arte de la gastronomía, sobre todo si hay un buen arroz de por medio. Lo demás son embustes o paños caliente, según lo mire.

Gehen Sie nicht gern ins Kino, Fermin? Im Vertrauen gesagt, mich lässt diese siebte Kunst völlig kalt. Meiner Meinung nach ist das nichts weiter als Nahrung zur Verdummung der verrohten Plebs, schlimmer als Fussball oder Stierkämpfe. Der Cinematograph ist entstanden als eine Erfindung zur Unterhaltung der analphabetischen Massen und fünfzig Jahren später hat sich daran nichts geändert.

The endemic condition of the Iberian saint is chronic constipation

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