Quotes About Culture

As the culture war rages on, Lord give us wisdom to see the difference between defending our rights and protesting our slights.

Warfare ... is just an invention, older and more widespread than the jury system, but none the less an invention.

The idea that after this war life will continue 'normally' or even that culture might be 'rebuilt' - as if the rebuilding of culture were not already its negation - is idiotic.

I am rather more apt to read old books than new ones.

If Star Wars had failed, you wouldn't have 90 percent of what's out there today.

She turned her painted blue eyes toward the assistant and said something in French before she left.

[The] Japanese were a people in a profound, inverse, reverse, or if I preferred it, even perverse sense, more in love with death than living.

...and to this day the rare traveller who knows the language and customs even of the worst of the tribes is safer amongst them than in the neighbouring Cossack settlements.

War is the worst way of gathering knowledge about a foreign culture.

When you think about new-born babies being killed in our own lifetime, ' he said, 'all the efforts of culture seem worthless. What have people learned from all our Goethes and Bachs? To kill babies?

Back on the block they probably call Big Al "Fat Albert" but here in the Nam we don't insult our friends.

civilization is the very root cause of the woes of civilization

Human war has been the most successful of all our cultural traditions.

In the Mexican culture, we never miss a baptism, a birthday, a baby shower, a wedding shower, a wedding. You must show up. Otherwise, you'll be in big trouble.

I didn't have a big fat Greek wedding, but I have a lot of fat Greek friends.

They didn't have to describe Jesus to me for me to know he's black. Jesus' first miracle was turning water into wine at a wedding. Now if that ain't black folk, I don't know what is.

You might be a redneck if you had to remove a toothpick for wedding pictures.

When you go to a Japense wedding, make sure that you tie the ribbon on the present tightly because if you don't, you may imply that you don't think the marriage will last.

An Irish wedding is a tame thing to an Irish funeral.

Every immigrant who comes here should be required within five years to learn English or leave the country.

A man without any history is like a tree without roots

The generation now coming out of Western schools is unable to distinguish good from bad. Even those words are unacceptable. This results in impaired thinking ability.

Knowledge of languages is the doorway to wisdom.

There is no greater wealth than wisdom, no greater poverty than ignorance; no greater heritage than culture and no greater support than consultation.