Quotes About Culture

One of the surest signs of the Philistine is his reverence for the superior tastes of those who put him down.

Television? The word is half Latin and half Greek. No good can come of it.

Television is the literature of the illiterate, the culture of the low-brow, the wealth of the poor, the privilege of the underprivileged, the exclusive club of the excluded masses.

When television is good, nothing is better. But when television is bad, nothing is worse. I invite you to sit down in front of your TV set and keep your eyes glued to that set until the station signs off. I can assure you that you will observe a vast wasteland.

Television has proved that people will look at anything rather than each other.

Television is the first truly democratic culture - the first culture available to everybody and entirely governed by what the people want. The most terrifying thing is what people do want.

The chicken is the country's, but the city eats it.

Only sick music makes money today.

An Englishman thinks seated; a Frenchman, standing; an American, pacing; an Irishman, afterward.

As the Spanish proverb says, 'He who would bring home the wealth of the Indies, must carry the wealth of the Indies with him.' So it is with traveling. A man must carry knowledge with him if he would bring home knowledge.

Travel teaches toleration.

The more I see of other countries the more I love my own.

Today violence is the rhetoric of the period.

When two Englishmen meet, their first talk is of the weather.

Nothing and no one can destroy the Chinese people. They are relentless survivors.

The study of women's intelligence and personality has had broadly the same history as the one we record for Negroes ... in drawing a parallel between the position of, and feeling toward, women and Negroes, we are uncovering a fundamental basis of our culture.

Language is the Rubicon that divides man from beast.

Dialect words - those terrible marks of the beast to the truly genteel.

Languages are the pedigree of nations.

Many terms which have now dropped out of favour will be revived, and those that are at present respectable, will drop out, if useage so choose with whom resides the decision and the judgment and the code of speech.

The art of translation lies less in knowing the other language than in knowing your own.

Who does not know another language, does not know his own.

A language is a dialect with its own army and navy.

There is only one way to degrade mankind permanently and that is to destroy language.