Quotes About Culture

Poland was a reminder to the world that there is more to history and power than brute force; the human spirit can bend the course of history in nobler directions. Culture drives history, over the long haul.

the crisis of the modern world was first of all a crisis of ideas, a crisis in the very idea of the human person. History was driven by culture and the ideas that formed cultures. Ideas had consequences. And if the idea of the human person that dominated a culture was flawed, one of two things would happen. Either that culture would give birth to destructive aspirations, or it would be incapable of realizing its fondest hopes, even if it expressed them in the most nobly humanistic terms.

I really enjoy travel, I enjoy the U.K., I enjoy Scotland, Glasgow.

As advertising blather becomes the nation's normal idiom, language becomes printed noise.

Football is a mistake. It combines two of the worst things about American life. It is violence punctuated by committee meetings.

Football combines the two worst features of American life: violence and committee meetings.

Pessimism is as American as apple pie. Frozen apple pie with a slice of processed cheese.

Football combines two of the worst things in American life. It is violence punctuated by committee meetings.

On ne comprend absolument rien à la civilisation moderne si l'on n'admet pas tout d'abord qu'elle est une conspiration universelle contre toute espèce de vie intérieure.

se rejoue, à travers tous ces conflits, ce que Warburg nommera le Nachleben, la "survivance" d'une instabilité déjà centrale à la culture classique elle-même et que Nietzsche, dans La Naissance de la tragédie, avait déjà bien repérée : c'est le conflit de l'"éthos apollinien" et du "pathos dionysiaque". "Le Quattrocento, conclut Warburg, savait apprécier cette double richesse de l'Antiquité païenne.

Somewhere in the Andes, they believe to this very day that the future is behind you. It comes up from behind your back, surprising and unforeseeable, while the past is always before your eyes, that which has already happened. When they talk about the past, the people of the Aymara tribe point in front of them. You walk forward facing the past and you turn back toward the future.

You can't make a museum to preserve something that has never left.

Outside Bulgaria's borders people age more beautifully and more slowly, old age is more merciful elsewhere.

As the psychologist Carl Jung once said, 'If our civilization were to perish, it would be due more to stupidity than to evil.

The uncivilized behavior of some human beings in a zoo has to be seen to be believed.

Es uz kapu vainagiem skatos ?oti nopietni, - Larijs aizr?d?ja. - Amerik? tos Ziemassv?tkos karina uz durv?m. Pie?emu, ka t?p?c, lai atg?din?tu - cik labi, ka v?l neesam zem tiem.

There are only three things that America will be remembered for 2000 years from now when they study this civilization: The Constitution, Jazz music, and Baseball. These are the 3 most beautiful things this culture's ever created.

For all their worshipful attention to Americans and American machinery, the French didn't like them much.

The aristocrats on both sides of the Atlantic, whether from new or old wealth, have the manners and the morals of small-town gossips. And

The pursuit of simplicity seems to have largely evaporated from the scientific scene. In four decades of doing science, I have seen this noble culture yield to one less audacious and more pragmatic.

One of the West's singular migrations--from the Azores to California's Great Central Valley--is given faces and voices in Anthony Barcellos's new novel, Land of Milk and Money . Along with its triumphs, the Francisco family embodies the challenges to an immigrant family in a new land, including the often ignored difficulties posed by success and the loss of the old culture. A must read...

A culture is kept alive by the interaction of all its parts.

Within IBM at that time, growing a beard without getting fired was an indisputable mark of technical genius. In

Christianity was neither original nor unique, but that the roots of much of the Judeo/ Christian tradition lay in the prevailing Kamite (ancient Egyptian) culture of the region. We are faced with the inescapable realisation that if Jesus had been able to read the documents of old Egypt, he would have been amazed to find his own biography already substantially written some four or five thousand years previously.