Quotes About Culture

The bicycle is the most civilized conveyance known to man.

If a man's house is full of medicine bottles, we infer the man is an invalid. But if his house is full of books, we conclude he is intelligent.

Europe has certainly lost confidence in itself. This was something that, when I was a young man, we never imagined would happen.

Unless man can make new and original adaptations to his environment as rapidly as his science can change the environment, our culture will perish.

In civilized communities men's idiosyncrasies are mitigated by the necessity of conforming to certain rules of behavior. Culture is a mask that hides their faces.

Men who have great riches and little culture rush into business, because they are weary of themselves.

It was really bizarre. I was learning how to be a black guy from a white guy pretending to be a black man.

The most beautiful as well as the most ugly inclinations of man are not part of a fixed biologically given human nature, but result from the social process which creates man.

There are many humorous things in the world; among them, the white man's notion that he is less savage than the other savages.

Every problem in history is due to men, so I'm basically asking for humanity to nest itself in a feminine culture, probably for the next 1,000 years.

I've always loved movies about con men. I think con men are as American as apple pie.

I don't think of myself as a jazz musician but a medicine man.

Man is born barbarous--he is ransomed from the condition of beasts only by being cultivated.

Most people in America think Art is a man's name.

It is the mark of the cultured man that he is aware of the fact that equality is an ethical and not a biological principle

A man's first bond is that which ties him into the national community.

When they learn of Shakespeare and Goethe, we must teach them of Pushkin and Dumas. . . . Whatever the white man has done, we have done, and often better.

All well bred men should have mastered the art of singing and dancing.

Civilization is not by means an easy thing to attain to. There are only two ways by which man can reach it. One is by being cultured, the other by being corrupt.

Religion has not civilized man, man has civilized religion.

People talk about sexual assault like it's a bad habit that men have.

I come from a long ago era where men could be men and stereotypical humor didn't offend anybody.

All men begin their learning with Homer.

Natural man did not precede society, nor is he outside it.