Quotes About Culture

Little by little the look of the country changes because of the men we admire.

For every language that becomes extinct, an image of man disappears.

We talk about how many women were raped last year, not about how many men raped women.

The question whether our conscious personality survives after death has been answered by almost all races of men in the affirmative.

Man is more than an animal only in that he finds expression for the beautiful.

I like when my man is worldly, know the finer things in life, is well traveled, and educated. It's important to me that he's able to talk to all types of people, from doctors to dishwashers.

In all fields black consciousness seeks to talk to the black man in a language that is his own

The first requisite to happiness is that a man be born in a famous city.

During the Samuel Johnson days they had big men enjoying small talk; today we have small men enjoying big talk.

Hey man, Jaws was never my scene, and i don't like Star Wars

The savage bows down to idols of wood and stone, the civilized man to idols of flesh and blood

Japanese women live in fear of making the least sound in a bathroom stall. Japanese men pay no attention to the subject whatsoever.

Men are a thousand times more intent on becoming rich than on acquiring culture, though it is quite certain that what a man IS contributes more to his happiness than what he HAS.

The tearoom lady called me love. All the shop ladies called me love and most of the men called me mate. I hadn't been here twelve hours and already they loved me.

There was no religious ceremony connected with marriage among us, while on the other hand the relation between man and woman was regarded as in itself mysterious and holy.

Towns are suffering from all these things, we should unite until we are all satisfied, man cannot be killing each other as if we were animals, as if we had no culture; that is a lack of culture.

What man is, only history tells.

Culture and education have no bounds or limits; now man is in a phase in which he must decide for himself how far he can proceed in the culture that belongs to the whole of humanity.

What man is, only his history tells.

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 is chiefly through books that we enjoy intercourse with superior minds. In the best books, great men talk to us, give us their most precious thoughts, and pour their souls into ours.

I can't tell a story in the white man's language, so I say what I want to say with my paintings.

Man, not the earth, makes civilization.

A culture is not the anonymous product of undifferentiate d masses, but the sum of the intellectual achievements of individual men.