Quotes About Culture

Really, his French was terrible.

Everyone remembers their first taste of Paris

As she passed a café filled with German

Vy na samom dele ne russkaya, ne tak li?

Vy priexali suda so svoyey docher'yu?

French is a foreign language, but I've been speaking it since I was 18 so it's second nature to me.

If you're feeling insecure and you need to feel special, the best place to go is somewhere foreign where people treat you as special because you're different.

Movies make you immortal and ageless.

Dancing is the world's favorite metaphor.

Rap is something you do. Hip-hop is something you live.

This is how many today treat GOD and Hip Hop. They seek the hand and not the face. They seek the luxury but not the culture, the food but not the appetite, the house but not the home, the medicine but not the health, the bed but not the rest. They would rather use GOD/Hip Hop than live GOD/Hip Hop.

There are really only two civilisations in Asia worth talking about – China and Persia.

Under the Mughals Agra became the world - its streets busting with men and women of all faiths, colours, ringing with the sound of many tongues. perhaps it's arrogance was its downfall

Armenians have more imagination than Mohammedans.

No new technology, during the thousand years between gunpowder and the steam engine, was as disruptive as the printing press, and Protestantism was its first viral cultural phenomenon.

The consequence of such mingling is that an individual who enters the communications system pursuing one interest soon becomes aware of stigmatized material on a broad range of subjects. As a result, those who come across one form of stigmatized knowledge will learn of others, in connections that imply that stigmatized knowledge is a unified domain, an alternative worldview, rather than a collection of unrelated ideas.

In America from the late 1960s on, equality came to mean not just that the law should treat everyone identically but that your beliefs about anything are equally as true as anyone else's. As the principle of absolute tolerance became axiomatic in our culture and internalized as part of our psychology—What I believe is true because I want and feel it to be true—individualism turned into rampant solipsism.

Extreme American gun love really is a lot like American religious faith.

The partnership culture gave way to a bonus culture, in which employees felt free to take huge risks with other people's money in order to generate revenue and big bonuses. Risk management on Wall Street [became] a farce, with risk managers being steamrolled by bankers, traders, and executives focused nearly exclusively on maximizing annual profits—and the size of their annual bonuses.

We're so trendy we can't even escape ourselves.

Kids don't care about rock and roll as much as they used to, as the other generations have. It's already turned into nothing but a fashion statement and an identity for kids to use as a tool for them to fuck and have a social life.

I like the comfort in knowing that the Afro American invented rock and roll yet has only been rewarded or awarded for their accomplishments when conforming to the white man's standards. I like the comfort in knowing that the Afro American has once again been the only race that has brought a new form of original music to this decade: hip-hop/rap.

I don't find music being less important than, like, politics.

On account of bad weather, German revolution took place in music