Quotes About Culture

mid-1950s, when Americans underwent an incredible transformation in how they understood the role of religion in public

As ideas of American identity continue to evolve, so America First must continually produce new enemies against which to define its own supposed pure vision of America.

She looks prepared to go past without making eye contact, foreign and unbecoming behaviour if you're in Newfoundland.

I deeply believe that if the Australian Labor Party, a party of which I have been a proud member for more than 30 years, is to have the best future for our nation, then it must change fundamentally its culture and to end the power of faceless men. Australia must be governed by the people, not by the factions.

Haven't two hundred years of failed missionary work overseas taught anybody anything? You can't convert people to anything - whether religion, or something as inane as our flicks.

And that question is, is San Francisco just a boutique city? A theme park? Or do creative forces still coalesce there?

From the beginning, American California was caught in a paradox of reverent awe and exploitative use.

Had the mission system proved successful—and by the 1830s it had had more than sixty years to do so—a steady stream of Hispanicized Native Americans should long since have been transferring into the civil population of California. This never happened. Either the Indians died off, or they became permanently missionized (which is to say, wards of the Franciscans), or they fled into the interior. Mission culture remained volatile

We destroy the most hallowed of relations, when we replace home education with social.

Most Christians prefer to keep culture in the category of adiophora- "things indifferent" -and assume it is harmless or of little influence.

Popular culture would never have achieved such a high degree of influence had it not been for the disappearance of family culture and Folk culture. With our social revolution, there would have been no cultural revolution. Without age0segregated high schools and the disappearance of the family economy, there would have been no Elvis Presley, Michael Jackson, or Katy Perry.

When many Christian teachers enter the public schools, instead of teaching the fear of God as the beginning of knowledge, they do just the opposite. They teach children not to fear God. In so doing, they contribute to the ongoing demise of the Christian faith in academics, politics, and the marketplace.

In the political war the enemy presents itself in its true colors. It is much harder to discern the enemy in the cultural war.

The cultural war tests the true commitment of the human heart.

To consign all of western culture to the devil also ignores the 2000-year reign of Jesus Christ.

The leaven of apostasy has spread to every developed nation. This makes modern culture more difficult to interpret in that there are both apostatizing trajectories and Christian roots intertwined within Western culture.

Most of the best programmers I know are also very fluent in their mother's tongue, and typically in other languages as well.

I realized that I belonged neither to the Hindus nor to the Mussalmans. How could I explain to my wife that while the Brahmins lived on offerings made to their gods, the Rajputs and the Jats had their lands, Aheers and the Gujars their cattle, the Banias their shops, all that the poor Kayasthas had were their brains and their reed pens! And the only people who could pay for their brains and their pens were the rulers who were Muslims!

India is constipated with a lot of humbug. Take modern Indian music of the films. It is all tango & rhumba or samba played on Hawaiian guitars, violins, accordions & clarinets. It is ugly. It must be scrapped like the rest.

In the absence of men all women are chaste.

In America, they make a lot of fuss over little things.

To know India and her peoples, one has to know the monsoon. one has to know the monsoon. It is not enough to read about it in books, or see it on the cinema screen, or hear someone talk about it. It has to be a personal experience because nothing short of living through it can fully convey all it means to a people for whom it is not only the source of life, but also their most exciting impact with nature.

The Indian peasant is the world's champion shitter. Stacks of chappaties and mounds of mustard leaf-mash down the hatch twice a day; stacks of shit a.m. and p.m.

Indians do not believe in privacy; they are a nosey people and the one thing they will not do is mind their own business.