Quotes About Culture

Never blame men, they have too many responsibilities because they live in a country where they are being taught to take up the burden since they get an erection.

Love is thicker than blood, its blind to color, it is its own culture

learn to experience and learn to respect, i love my culture and i respect iti m proud to be Xhosa

They stamped their own pattern of lovers onto the fabric of Paris.

Tell me what you eat and I will tell you who you are.

Their courtship unfolded in two settings, a Russian reality overlaid with New York memories

The greatest treasures are books.

It's all biology. If it weren't for two thousand years of the Christian tradition we wouldn't think of pretending otherwise…Romance is the true opiate of the masses.

The heart is a foreign country whose language none of us is good at.

I worried she might spend an afternoon chatting with me about the sights and then wish me best of luck.

He's very, very well-known. I'd say he's world-famous in Melbourne.

It is bad luck for world history that of all people the Russians adopted Communism, because they are totally unfit for it.

During my research, I reviewed a book entitled "A Catalogue of the Gods," in which were listed the 30,000 gods which man has worshiped.

books we read, the people with whom we associate, the country and community in which we live, the nature of the work we do, the clothes we wear, the songs we sing, and, most important of all, the religious and intellectual training we receive in our early teenage years.

The three great organized forces through which social heredity operates are: The schools, the churches and the public (Mockingbird) press.

Modernity: we created youth without heroism, age without wisdom, and life without grandeur

My biggest problem with modernity may lie in the growing separation of the ethical and the legal

Primitive societies are largely free of cardiovascular disease, cancer, dental cavities, economic theories, lounge music, and other modern ailments.

The difference between slaves in Roman and Ottoman days and today's employees is that slaves did not need to flatter their boss.

In a thick and captivating book, La rebellion française, the historian Jean Nicolas shows how the culture of rioting was extremely sophisticated—historically, it counts as the true French national sport.

Social science means inventing a certain brand of human we can understand.

Aesthetics, ethics, and many good things in humans are contagious.

American culture encourages the process of failure, unlike the cultures of Europe and Asia where failure is met with stigma and embarrassment. America's specialty is to take these small risks for the rest of the world, which explains this country's disproportionate share in innovations.

The "persecution" of the Christians had vastly more to do with the intolerance of the Christians for the pantheon of local gods than the reverse. What we read is history written by the Christian side, not the Greco-Roman one.