Quotes About Culture

I cannot live qithout books~ Thomas Jefferson

In proportion to their number, [incompatible immigrants] will infuse into [the nation] their spirit, warp or bias its direction, and render it a heterogeneous, incoherent, distracted mass.

I cannot live without books. --Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826)

He was Sudeten German—Arkansas to their Manhattan, Liverpool to their Cambridge.

Technology and comfort - having those, people speak of culture, but do not have it.

He thought what a fine thing it was that people made music all over the world, even in the strangest settings – probably even on polar expeditions.

Travelers prove their lack of education if they make fun of the customs and values of their hosts, and the qualities that do a person honour are many and varied.

La belleza engendra pudor

Even the piquant can forfeit popularity if tied to something intellectual.

La barbarie n est le contraire de la culture que dans le cadre de la hierarchie de pensee que celle-ci nous propose.

That regales," he said. "Won't you have more?

De la culture et de la fortune, voilà le bourgeois.

Leider sei eben heute alles Politik, es gebe keine geistige Reinheit mehr.

Richard Wagner once declared that civilization disappears before music like mist before the sun. he never dreamed that one day, for its part, music would disappear before civilization, before democracy, like mist before the sun.

El arte es vida potenciada.

There is a whole culture in the United States—a growing one, it seems—that consciously walls out facts it doesn't want to know. These facts cluster together: evolution by natural selection; climate change; our society's growing recognition of equal rights for all persons; the citizen's responsibilities to the citizenry; the damage humans have done to natural systems and our duty to try to heal them.

our material riches unfortunately imply a spiritual, cultural, and moral poverty that are perhaps far greater than we see.

I have come to think that care of the soul requires a high degree of resistance to the culture around us, simply because that culture is dedicated to values that have no concern for the soul.

This is America, you live in it, you let it happen. Let it unfurl.

Culture attracts the worst impulses of the moneyed, it has no honor, it begs to be suburbanized and corrupted.

Chotto, Kenichiro! Dozo, motto panukeiku.

ay jalisco, no te rejas

The city was hers, as, made up and sleeked so with the customary words and images (cosmopolitan, culture, cable cars) it had not been before: she had safe-passage tonight to its far blood's branchings, be they capillaries too small for more than peering into, or vessels mashed together in shameless municipal hickeys, out on the skin for all but tourists to see. Nothing of the night's could touch her; nothing did.

staff who claim not to know a word of English beyond "awesome" and "sucks," which for a vast range of human endeavor, actually, is more than enough . . .