Quotes About Culture

I was raised a Roman Catholic, but it was the kind of domesticated Catholicism that focused mostly on the length of your skirt rather than, say, the depth of your penitential observance

Venetians prefer being merchants to philosophers.

I was a mother, whereas he would have been a father, and whether those two labels SHOULD mean the same thing - to the culture, to the parent in question, to the children themselves - in practice they usually do not.

Feeding is a very important ritual for me. I don't trust people who don't like to eat.

Though I have not lived in New York City for more than two decades, these storytellers – from the United States, Britain and Canada – have touched my heart with their openness, inspired me with their joie de vivre and deepened my appreciation for my hometown as a worldwide phenomenon. Welcome to our New York.

Quisiera ser extranjero para irme a mi país".

Non so quando, ma so che in tanti siamo venuti in questo secolo per sviluppare arti e scienze, porre i semi della nuova cultura che fiorirà, inattesa, improvvisa, proprio quando il potere si illuderà di avere vinto.

I do not know when, but I know that many have come in this century to develop arts and sciences, sow the seeds of a new culture that will flourish, unexpected, sudden, just when the power is deluded into believing they have won.

Every culture is first and foremost a particular experience of time, and no new culture is possible without an alteration in this experience. The original task of a genuine revolution, therefore, is never merely to 'change the world', but also - and above all - to 'change time'.

Governments must be conformable to the nature of the governed; governments are even a result of that nature.

In that dark night which shrouds from our eyes the most remote antiquity, a light appears which cannot lead us astray; I speak of this incontestable truth: the social world is certainly the work of man.

While farmers generally allow one rooster for ten hens, ten men are scarcely sufficient to service one woman.

La civilización le ha corrompido, le ha hecho volverse humanitario y vegetariano.

Femeile de la r?zboi încoace deveniser? prea evidente, din generaÅ£ie în generaÅ£ie. Descoperindu-le pulpele, rochia le scurta misterul, dup? cum ÅŸi p?rul care le descoperea ÅŸi masculiniza ceafa. Nudismul desfiinÅ£a acest mister împuÅ£inat de dimensiunile hainelor. Odinioar? erau un foÅŸnet pentru suflet, acuma deveniser? un marÅŸ.

La televisión no es sólo instrumento de comunicación; es también, a la vez, paideía , un instrumento «antropogenético», un medium que genera un nuevo ánthropos , un nuevo tipo de ser humano.

Alle volte, la cultura è più un male che un bene

What's more, he was going to have a full American breakfast with bacon and eggs, none of this continental bullshit.

velha ideia russa segundo a qual a arte não é somente cultura, mas construção, profecia, verdade.

Les aspirations accumulées de tout un pays, immergé depuis des décennies dans la sénescente torpeur communiste, convergeaient ici. Et au centre il n'y avait pas la culture, comme le croyaient les intellectuels convaincus d'hériter du sceptre et qui n'avaient rien hérité du tout. Au centre, il y avait la télévision.

Fazíamos uma televisão bárbara e vulgar, como pretende a natureza desse meio de comunicação.

O kitsch é a única forma de linguagem possível se quisermos comunicar com as massas, porque simplifica tudo e não apresenta nenhuma nuance.

éramos acolhidos em toda a parte com aquela expansiva cordialidade americana sob a qual se percebe, quase sempre, um veio de condescendência.

The Sicilians never want to improve for the simple reason that they think themselves perfect.

John MacKechnie's Gaelic Without Groans