Quotes About Culture

She (India) has left indelible imprints on one fourth of the human race in the course of a long succession of centuries. She has the right to reclaim... her place amongst the great nations summarizing and symbolizing the spirit of humanity. From Persia to the Chinese sea, from the icy regions of Siberia to Islands of Java and Borneo, India has propagated her beliefs, her tales, and her civilization.

pues lo que se puso en cuestión fue precisamente la certeza del destino de grandeza y de la excepcionalidad del país que se había consolidado durante los procesos de constitución del Estado moderno en 1880. En el plano cultural, por el contrario, se registraron respuestas creativas a esos mismos sucesos que signaron la época.

In his view, the ancient Japanese way, where men would meet and "bow to each other for as much as half an hour speaking words of greeting, gradually moving closer together, understanding the necessity of entering another's consciousness carefully,"1 was a good one.

It's the first time I've really enjoyed dancing. I sometimes even forget I belong to an inferior race. The Twist is the greatest ritual since circumcision—and there you can choose between the genius of two cultures. Myself I prefer the Twist."1

Flattery was formerly a vice; it has now become the fashion.

What happens in Korea stays in Korea," he told himself.

But Hollywood cinema remains profoundly conservative, profoundly stupid, and often painful. About one out of every ten films is okay, meaning a little bit better than the average.

Throughout history there has been no single instance where a people, once become Moslem, has ever abandoned the faith.

Some of these types, like the Persians and Ottoman Turks, are largely white; others, like the southern Indians and Yemenite Arabs, are largely black; while still others, like the Himalayan and Central Asian peoples, have much yellow blood.

The great spiritual bond is Islam, yet in India, the chief seat of brown population, Islam is professed by only one-fifth of the inhabitants. Nevertheless,

Islam is, in fact, the intimate link between the brown and black worlds.

The heart of the white world was divided against itself, and on the fateful 1st of August, 1914, the white race, forgetting ties of blood and culture, heedless of the growing pressure of the colored world without, locked in a battle to the death.

Published April, 1920

The backbone of western civilization is racially Nordic, the Alpines and Mediterraneans being effective precisely to the extent in which they have been Nordicized and vitalized. If

Brown Man's Land is the Near and Middle East. The brown world stretches in an immense belt clear across southern Asia and northern Africa, from the Pacific to the Atlantic Oceans.

Europe drills the Moslem to be a soldier who will ultimately turn his weapons against her;

I am an Anglo-Catholic in religion, a classicist in literature and a royalist in politics.

Where is all the knowledge we lost with information?

Since our concern was speech, and speech impelled usTo purify the dialect of the tribe.

Our high respect for a well read person is praise enough for literature.

You can take the people out of the city, but you can't take the soul — that remains here.

Spiritual space is lost in gaining convenience. I saw the need to create a mixture of Japanese spiritual culture and modern western architecture.

There is a role and function for beauty in our time.

Japanese architecture is traditionally based on wooden structures that need renovating on a regular basis.