Quotes About Culture

W]e are all savages under the cloak that civilization fashions for us.

I dare say that we are all savages under the cloak that civilization fashions for us.

Also, serial killers, child killers, they're hot, they're the new cool kids, the new vampires, the new zombies, everybody's favourite spook monster.

Being abroad gave me the tongue of a child, and soon it gave me a child's heart to match. You know that heart and tongue are made from the same flesh.

No institution is bigger than the people who work for it.

One of the things I believe is that as long as Raja and I are translating, her people and mine may have something to do besides going to war for embarrassing reasons.

Arabia, like Ireland, is mostly a country in a movie.

Iqbal, using Urdu and also Persian, would be the poet of Islam rather than of India.

Lawrence dented a practice among some in the Bedi clan of killing baby girls. The justification for the practice was this. The clan that produced Guru Nanak would lose prestige if its girls married into inferior clans; if they married within the clan, it would be like incest. The only solution was to kill the girl-child.

Thus Punjabi became the 'Sikh' language, Urdu the 'Muslim' language, and Hindi the 'Hindu' language. Language was uprooted from ground-level and tied to religion rather than to the varied people who spoke it, or the tract where it was spoken.

To this day I don't ever remember seeing a pet inside Moscow, I never saw anyone carrying a dog, or leading a dog. Err I finally saw a, a pet some years later in Kiev, so I thought that life must have been, different.

A chair is the first thing you need when you don't really need anything, and is therefore a peculiarly compelling symbol of civilization. For it is civilization, not survival, that requires design.

When theater becomes a soothing middle-class thing, when it's packaged as the Night Out, then that's the death of it.

People ask how can a Jewish kid from the Bronx do preppy clothes? Does it have to do with class and money? It has to do with dreams.

One of the most amazing recent developments is that a number of aggressive atheists are beginning to see the horror of a totally de-Christianized culture and are starting to acknowledge, without themselves claiming to have become believers, that Christianity contributed some great value to our lives and many of the progressive ideals came to birth only as a result of Christianity.

Currently in the United States, 40 percent of children are born out of wedlock, contributing to massive family breakdown,

Yorker—it was the surrealistic and abstract adventures of a neurotic Jewish comedian who was reliving his highly flawed life and in the process satirizing much of our culture. Diane Keaton makes a brief appearance after Woody's reference to her in the opening monologue and disappears for ten or fifteen minutes thereafter.

Civilization depends on morality.

The true test of civilization is, not the census, nor the size of the cities, nor the crops, but the kind of man that the country turns out.

Culture is one thing and varnish is another.

The foundation of culture, as of character, is at last the moral sentiment.

Cities force growth and make people talkative and entertaining, but they also make them artificial.

Society always consists in the greatest part, of young and foolish persons.

Cities force growth, and make men talkative and entertaining, but they make them artificial.