Quotes About Culture

What men call gallantry, and gods adultery, is much more common where the climate's sultry.

Books are the building blocks of civilization, for without the written word, a man knows nothing beyond what occurs during his own brief years and, perhaps, in a few tales his parents tell him.

France always has plenty men of talent, but it is always deficient in men of action and high character.

They are not men, they are not women, they are Americans.

Adde, quod ingénues didicisse fideliter artes Emollit mores, nec sinit esse fervos. To be instructed in the arts, softens the manners and makes men gentle.

Avisitor from Mars contemplating a man in a frock coat and top hat and a woman in a crinoline might well have supposed that they belonged to different species.

Nothing tells more about the character of a man than the things he makes fun of.

She is still less civilized than man, largely because she has not been educated.

If a man is fortunate he will, before he dies, gather up as much as he can of his civilized heritage and transmit it to his children.

A Scot is a man who keeps the Sabbath, and everything else he can lay his hands on.

There was a saying in Umuofia that as a man danced so the drums were beaten for him.

The world of books is the most remarkable creation of man.

Universities are the custodians not only of the many cultures of man, but of the rational process itself.

To the old saying that man built the house but woman made of it a 'home' might be added the modern supplement that woman accepted cooking as a chore but man has made of it a recreation.

Man's biological weakness is the condition of human culture.

Everyday sexual practices on college campuses need to be upended, and men need to feel a cold spike of fear when they begin a sexual encounter.

Modern man is educated to understand foreign languages and misunderstand foreigners.

By twice born men a widow must not be appointed to ,cohabit with any other ,than her husband , for they who appoint ,her to another ,man , will violate the eternal law.

The fact that the Kardashians could be more popular than a show like "Mad Men" is disgusting. It's a super disgusting part of our culture, but I still find it funny to make a joke about it.

No white man uses his feet the way an Indian does. He talks to the earth.

Man's real genius and knowledge remains preserved in books

[A]ny notion of the serious life of leisure, as well as men's taste and capacity to live it, had disappeared. Leisure became entertainment.

My name is Arsenio. That's a very unique name for a black man. In Greek, it means Leroy.

You know, the men go to tea houses with the expectation that they will have a nice quiet evening and not read about it the next morning in the newspaper.