Quotes About Culture

When I first went into the active Army, you could tell someone to move a chair across the room. Now you have to tell them why.

And I believe that the Binomial Theorem and a Bach Fugue are, in the long run, more important than all the battles of history.

Primitiveness and civilization are degrees of the same thing. If civilization has an opposite, it is war.

[In] my era everybody smoked and everybody drank and there was no drug use

War seems to be one of the most salutary phenomena for the culture of human nature; and it is not without regret that I see it disappearing more and more from the scene.

Well, we won the war. You know what that means. In twenty years, we'll all be driving Iraqi cars

I used to think it was possible for an artist to alter the inner life of the culture. Now bomb-makers and gunmen have taken that territory.

I am one of the best five writers to come out of English music since the war.

The sinews of art and literature, like those of war, are money.

We have always been a nation different from the Chinese. Long ago we fought wars with them.

Immigrants do more than help us win our wars, or set up cleaning shops or ethnic restaurants.

War is only an invention, not a biological necessity.

What two ideas are more inseparable than beer and Britannia?

Happy hour is slightly different in the Soviet Union. There are no ice cubes or orange-peel twists in the vodka. Also, it lasts all day.

Armed violence and peace cannot coexist. We need to overcome the challenges we face and seek practical solutions. We must replace the culture of war with the culture of peace.

A war still rages over the legacy of the 1960s.

I think as an American society, when we're paying too many taxes or dealing with war, we don't want to see sad things at the movies.

We're all more or less interested in the 'swinging sixties', of course, but that's not what I mean. I'm interested in the particular naive glamour that clings to the post-war and pre-Hendrix era.

I don't know if music has ever achieved anything past appealing to the people that it appeals to. If a song could stop a war, then Bob Marley and Bob Dylan songs would have stopped one or two.

An affected laugh shows lack of self-respect in a man and lewdness in a woman. It is carelessness to go about with one's hands inside the slits in the sides of his hakama.

I think that winning the battle in Hollywood is a necessary condition to winning the culture war.

I don't want to get involved in the culture war. Religion's iffy.

In free society art is not a weapon...Artists are not engineers of the soul.

I support Selfies! I think the war on selfies is really unjust!