Quotes About Culture

No man ever looks at the world with pristine eyes. He sees it edited by a definite set of customs and institutions and ways of thinking.

Perhaps of all the creations of man language is the most astonishing.

The unphilosophical majority among men are the ones most helplessly dependent on their era's dominant ideas.

There is no fundamental difference in the ways of thinking of primitive and civilized man. A close connection between race and personality has never been established.

Men do not have to cook their food; they do so for symbolic reasons to show they are men and not beasts.

I mean, the men in Hollywood event is every day - it's called Hollywood.

Man does not create gods, in spite of appearances. The times, the age, impose them on him.

The traditional face of Africa includes an attitude towards man which can only be described as being socialist

For a man who no longer has a homeland, writing becomes a place to live.

You know the world is messed up when the tallest man in the NBA is Chinese, the best golfer is black, and the best rapper is white.

I don't consider myself just a black man. I consider myself a brotha. I love my people.

Here again we witness the single outcome of a worldwide process, with East and West yielding the same results, and once again for the same reason: Men have forgotten God.

Culture is the sum of all the forms of art, of love, and of thought, which, in the coarse or centuries, have enabled man to be less enslaved

Elvis was the only man from Northeast Mississippi who could shake his hips and still be loved by rednecks, cops, and hippies.

Unfortunately, most men would only be interested in a woman's mind if it bounced when she walked.

I generally don't like living in a world where being what a man is, is a horrible thing; and no matter what a woman is, is a wonderful thing.

Himmler wants to send an expedition to Tibet to look for ancient manuscripts on the Aryans. The man is like a little schoolgirl. What culture is there in an old jug, I ask you?

I want my grandchildren to look like my grandparents. I don't want them to look like Anwar Sadat or Foo Man Chu or Whoopi Goldberg.

Man's need for art is absolutely primordial, as strong as, and perhaps stronger than, our need for bread. Without bread, we die of hunger, but without art we die of boredom.

I love Nashville. I've been here so many times... oh man, I would stay here for a year if I could. It's just so much fun.

I have to think hard to name an interesting man who does not drink.

The forms of art reflect the history of man more truthfully than do documents themselves.

Of all the noises known to man, opera is the most expensive.

When men die, they enter history. When statues die, they enter art. This botany of death is what we call culture.