Quotes About Culture

The popularization of culture often ends in its total degradation.

In modern culture the scientific community praises disagreement as a way to improve knowledge. For Ur-Fascism, disagreement is treason.

The official Fascist intellectuals were mainly engaged in attacking modern culture and the liberal intelligentsia for having betrayed traditional values.

If there was no New Orleans, America would just be a bunch of free people dying of boredom. -Judy Deck in an e-mail sent to Chris Rose

Dear America, I suppose we should introduce ourselves: We're South Louisiana...You probably already know that we talk funny and listen to strange music and eat things you'd probably hire an exterminator to get out of your yard. We dance even if there's no radio. We drink at funerals. We talk too much and laugh too loud and live too large and, frankly,we're suspicious of others who don't.

La vertu de ren, que l'on traduit par « humanité », est centrale dans la morale confucéenne.

On a attribué à Al Farabi, autre génie universel, la connaissance de 70 langues.

Wisdom does not always speak Latin.

If we lived in a culture that valued women's autonomy and in which men and women practiced cooperative birth control, the abortion issue would be moot.

It seemed all Englishmen imagined one had to attend Oxford, dress in black and breathe the air of Britain to understand the workings of business. Business, he could have informed them, varied not a whit anywhere in the world.

GBeing on a spiritual path, or living according to one's faith, means that a person aligns his/her self to a set of principles and values different than the everyday waking consciousness of our modern culture.

She was mixed--Japanese and American. Nothing. A nothing. A nobody. The 'kanji' in her last name meant female devil. She didn't even know what her real last name was because she'd dishonored the family simply be being born.

He recognized the distinctive percussion of the goblet-shaped drum, the dumbek. The kanun was a stringed instrument that produced beautiful sounds much like a harp. There was a ney, a flute that had an amazing tone to it.

Azami thought it was a miracle she managed not to roll her eyes. She was Japanese, not Chinese.

We thank you for the offer, healer, but Shea is unused to our ways." Jacques couldn't remember most of them himself.

Sociologists say a neighbourhood is perceived as gay if anywhere between 15 to 25 percent of the residents are homosexual.

How could you begin to explain London? A city once the color of tobacco and carrots, now chalky stone and angled steel, but vivid chimney pots can still be glimpsed between slivers of rain-specked glass. Nine billion pounds' worth of Christmas bonuses have just been spent in the city's square mile.

Crazy leaders teach us crazy habits.

a second-rate nation run with the economic vision of an Armenian pastry shop.

Fair point. I suppose dressing up in hot countries simply involves putting on shoes. A bit like Wales.

Historians are interested in ideas not only because they influence societies, but because they reveal the societies that give rise to them.

I have always found it quaint and rather touching that there is a movement [Libertarians] in the US that thinks Americans are not yet selfish enough.

I want to urge you very strongly to travel as much as you can, and to evolve yourself as an internationalist. It's as important a part of your education as a radical as the reading of any book.

The Postmodernists' tyranny wears people down by boredom and semi-literate prose.