Quotes About Culture

Male aggression and lust are the energizing factors in culture. They are men's tools of survival in the pagan vastness of female nature.

A man should be just cultured enough to be able to look with suspicion upon culture at first, not second hand.

To read, write, and converse in due proportions, is, therefore, the business of a man of letters.

If someone were to put a proposition before men bidding them choose, after examination, the best customs in the world, each nation would certainly select its own

A man who is ignorant of foreign languages is also ignorant of his own language.

It struck me that Albania was the sort of place that might keep a man from yawning.

Man makes religion, religion does not make man

Man builds no structure which outlives a book.

A healthy nation is as unconscious of its nationality as a healthy man of his bones. But if you break a person's nationality it will think of nothing else but getting it set again.

The best men in all ages keep classic traditions alive

I have every reason to believe that an individual man or woman fluent in several tongues seduces, possesses, remembers differently according to his or her use of the relevant language.

What affects men sharply about a foreign nation is not so much finding or not finding familiar things; it is rather not finding them in the familiar place.

In the East men know panic, but they do not know what fright is.

The truly civilized man is always skeptical and tolerant, in this field as in all others. His culture is based on 'I am not too sure'.

All men are potential rapists.

Surfers are members of a different race of people from the man in the street

It's fascinating to think that as soon as man came into existence, he started painting.

Cities give us collision. 'Tis said, London and New York take the nonsense out of a man.

My man slangs rocks like up the block, 143RD and Amsterdam by the smoke shop

Men like cars, women like clothes. Women only like cars because they take them to clothes.

Men own basketball teams. Every year cheerleaders' outfits get tighter and briefer, and players' shorts get baggier and longer.

Show me a woman who doesn't feel guilty and I'll show you a man.

A civilization is built on what is required of men, not on that which is provided for them.

Musical practice is too young an art in America to warrant a search for men with a conductor's gift.