Quotes About Culture

A serious problem in America is the gap between academe and the mass media, which is our culture. Professors of humanities, with all their leftist fantasies, have little direct knowledge of American life and no impact whatever on public policy.

Si quitásemos a los toros la ciencia cierta de acabar sus nobles, sus violentos cuatro años con tres palmos de acero cruzándoles las entrañas, los toros, como flores segadas, no serían sino el bello recuerdo de una estampa de un cimbrearse al viento

Escuece darse cuenta de que las gentes siguen pensando que la literatura, como el violín, no hace daño a nadie.

Why did they have so many clothes, anyway? Life was so much easier in India, where a boy needed only a pair of shorts.

Las personas cultas -decían los nuevos líderes- son un lastre para los trabajadores. Las ciudades encarnan el mal. La cultura y la educación son inútiles y egoístas. El dinero y el comercio están corruptos. La fuerza de un país es el hombre trabajador, no los parásitos que viven de él. ¡Plantad arroz para que el país prospere! (...) Aquello era un holocausto. No solo de la vida, sino también del sentido común y de la razón.

The kids had already mangled the fruit plate, but the sashimi- fresh raw tuna- fanned out in cool pink glory next to makizushi sushi rolls. Marinated mochiko chicken still steamed, crispy fresh from the deep fryer, and Grandma's homemade pickled vegetables- takuwan and tsukemono- lay in small dishes next to it. "Oooh, one of the aunties made shrimp tempura." Trish piled hand-battered, deep-fried shrimp on a paper plate.

Art is what we do and culture is what they do to us.

The lowest form of popular culture - lack of information, misinformation, disinformation, and a contempt for the truth or the reality of most people's lives - has overrun real journalism. Today, ordinary Americans are being stuffed with garbage.

We are in the process of creating what deserves to be called the idiot culture. Not an idiot sub-culture, which every society has bubbling beneath the surface and which can provide harmless fun; but the culture itself. For the first time, the weird and the stupid and the coarse are becoming our cultural norm, even our cultural ideal.

Mathematics is as much an aspect of culture as it is a collection of algorithms.

In a 1901 newspaper piece, peaky blinders were referred to as ''Arry' and the young women associated with them as ''Arriet'. These generic terms were used insultingly and could be equated to the derogatory use of 'Kevin' and 'Sharon' in modern society.

As our culture has shifted the locus of meaning in life away from God and onto individual psychology, we have created a moral yardstick that measures the success of a human life in terms of psychological well-being. As

O excesso de animalidade deforma o homem cultural; o excesso de cultura cria animais doentes. Este dilema mostra toda a insegurança que o erotismo traz ao homem. No fundo, é algo muito poderoso que, como a natureza, pode ser dominado e usado, como se fosse impotente. Mas o triunfo sobre a natureza se paga muito caro. A natureza dispensa quaisquer declarações de princípios, contenta-se com tolerância e sábias medidas.

Who has fully realized that history is not contained in thick books but lives in our very blood?

We can keep from a child all knowledge of earlier myths, but we cannot take from him the need for mythology.

No culture of the mind is enough to make a garden out of your soul.

the energy of violence moves through our culture. Some experience it as a light but unpleasant breeze, easy to tolerate. Others are destroyed by it, as if by a hurricane. But nobody—nobody—is untouched

While we are quick to judge the human rights record of every other country on earth, it is we civilized Americans whose murder rate is ten times that of other Western nations, we civilized Americans who kill women and children with the most alarming frequency. In

As adults, without our identity as a member of the tribe or village, community or culture, a likely outcome is banishment and death.

Women are the first to jump on what is fashionable.

The value of an arts education is widely accepted, especially in California.

Myths rule the world.

The man-dog contract goes back to before the invention of writing, before the invention of the wheel, even before the invention of agriculture. In that sense, living with dogs may be one of the oldest surviving cultural landmarks of our heritage, a surviving fragment of the Stone Age.

It seemed that the penis per se, except to male homosexuals, was not a very salable commodity in the sexual marketplace of America. Few women could be aroused by the sight of an erect penis unless they were warmly disposed to the man who was attached to it.