Quotes About Culture

All literary men are Red Sox fans - to be a Yankee fan in a literate society is to endanger your life.

The image of the woman as we know it is an image created by men and fashioned to suit their needs.

Our most valuable and most instructive materials in the history of man are treasured up in India.

It is hard for a woman with whom an uncircumcised man has had sexual intercourse to separate from him. In my opinion this is the strongest of the reasons for circumcision.

I don't go for very handsome men. Like they say in England, toy boys break too easily.

When a Japanese manufacturer was asked by his North American counterpart, What is the best language in which to do business?" the man responded: "My customer's language

Contemporary man has rationalized the myths, but he has not been able to destroy them.

A race of people is like and individual man; until it uses its own talent, takes pride in its own history, expresses its own culture, affirms its own selfhood, it can never fulfill itself.

The reason man does not experience his true cultural self is that until he experiences another self as valid he has little basis for validating his own self.

A great disaster had befallen Russia: Men have forgotten God; that's why all this has happened.

Men call their sons Paul and their dogs Nero today.

Civilization has made man, if not always more bloodthirsty, at least more viciously, more horribly bloodthirsty.

No man can cause more grief than that one clinging blindly to the vices of his ancestors.

Nobody can say a word against Greek: it stamps a man at once as an educated gentlemen.

I man don't come red, I come Black

My father was totally Irish, and so I went to Ireland once. I found it to be very much like New York, for it was a beautiful country, and both the women and men were good-looking.

What a singular fact for an angel visitant to this earth to carry back in his note-book, that men were forbidden to expose their bodies under the severest penalties!

If there was no black man there would be no Rock'n'Roll. The beat, the rhythms of Africa are what created Rock'n'Roll and Jazz.

Nashville, man. That's the place to be.

Give an Irishman lager for a month and he's a dead man. An Irishman's stomach is lined with copper, and the beer corrodes it. But whiskey polishes the copper and is the saving of him.

For years, I looked to Bruce Lee as a mentor as being a Chinese and Asian man living in this country.

If the Muslims keep their heads cool and accept progress as a means and not an end in itself, they may pass on to Western man the lost secret of life's sweetness.

Something about New York, man: You can do more comedy there probably than you can anywhere in the world. If you're interested in being funny, New York is the place to go.

Folk music is the original melody of man; it is the musical mirror of the world.