Quotes About Culture

Decidedly, the stories that turn the tribes tragic are not their own stories.

While I would champion any campaign to support Muslim women who do not wish to cover. I would now also protest vigorously for the right of a woman to wear that covering, if it is what she wants and believes in. Ayatollah Khomeini and Jacques Chirac have much more in common than either of them would care to acknowledge. Each tried to solve overarching social problems by imposing his will on the bodies of women.

Good is when I steal other people's wives and cattle; bad is when they steal mine.

Insanity in individuals is something rare - but in groups, parties, nations, and epochs it is the ru)e.

Lord! I wonder what fool it was that first invented kissing.

The English laws punish vice; the Chinese laws do more, they reward virtue.

The classics are only primitive literature. They belong to the same class as primitive machinery and primitive music and primitive medicine.

He has more chins than a Chinese phone book.

Men make laws; women make manners.

What once were vices are now manners.

A woman who is found without her veil in some regions of Islam will, it is reported, raise her skirt to cover her face.

Dr. Johnson's morality was as English an article as a beefsteak.

My folks refused to have more than four children after reading that every fifth child born in the world is Chinese.

When you get hungry enough, you find yourself speaking Spanish pretty well.

I do not mind what language an opera is sung in so long as it is the language I don't understand.

Twelve Highlanders and a bagpipe make a rebellion.

A nation creates music - the composer only arranges it.

Why should the devil have all the good tunes?

The proper means of increasing the love we bear our native country is to reside some time in a foreign one.

The striking point about our model family is not simply the compete-compete, consume-consume style of life it urges us to follow. The striking point, in the face of all the propaganda, is how few Americans actually live this way.

I must study politics and war, that my sons may have the liberty to study mathematics and philosophy, geography, natural history, and naval architecture, navigation, commerce, and agriculture, in order to give their children a right to study painting, poetry, music, architecture, statuary, tapestry and porcelain.

There is Ontario patriotism, Quebec patriotism, or Western patriotism; each based on the hope that it may swallow up the others, but there is no Canadian patriotism, and we can have no Canadian nation when we have no Canadian patriotism.

My favourite example (of ex-patriotism) is James Joyce, who left Ireland at nineteen and never came back. But he spent the rest of his life writing about Ireland from the perspective of living in Paris.

We merely want to live in peace with all the world, to trade with them, to commune with them, to learn from their culture as they may learn from ours, so that the products of our toil may be used for our schools and our roads and our churches and not for guns and planes and tanks and ships of war.