Quotes About Culture

White man goes into his churches to talk about Jesus, the Indian into his Tepee to talk to Jesus (with Peyote etc).

When man is not properly trained, he is the most savage animal on the face of the globe.

If there is one place on the face of earth where all the dreams of living men have found a home from the very earliest days when man began the dream of existence, it is India.

In Bangladesh a prostitute normally wouldn't even undress for a man. He pays, she pulls up her sari, and he's done in 20 seconds.

A man without a mustache is a man without a soul.

Anyone can be a barbarian; it requires a terrible effort to remain a civilized man.

As the archaeology of our thought easily shows, man is an invention of recent date. And one perhaps nearing its end.

Then there was the whole concept of coal mining, which is a culture unto itself, the most dangerous occupation in the world, and which draws and develops a certain kind of man.

Language is a form of human reason, which has its internal logic of which man knows nothing.

It is best for ordinary men to have only one wife !

A man who has a language consequently possesses the world expressed and implied by that language.

Africa has her mysteries, and even a wise man cannot understand them. But a wise man respects them

When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford.

When asked by an anthropologist what the Indians called America before the white men came, an Indian said simply "Ours.

To understand the man you have to know what was happening in the world when he was twenty.

I'm a Southern girl. I like when they open the door and pull out a chair. I'm really into a man's man.

The daughter-in-law of Pythagoras said that a woman who goes to bed with a man ought to lay aside her modesty with her skirt, and put it on again with her petticoat

I am a red man. If the Great Spirit had desired me to be a white man he would have made me so in the first place.

I felt the comics grew because they became the common man's literature, the common man's art, the common man's publishing.

If a man does away with his traditional way of living and throws away his good customs, he had better first make certain that he has something of value to replace them.

Indigenous people believe that Man belongs to the World; civilized people believe that the World belongs to Man.

Man does not exist prior to language, either as a species or as an individual.

You might as well say that the woman lies on top of the man when they are making the babies.

When Talking Heads started, we called ourselves Thinking Man's Dance Music.