Quotes About Culture

A man should be religious, not superstitious.

When one looks back over human existence however, it is very evident that all culture has developed through an initial resistance against adaptation to the reality in which man finds himself.

Increased means and increased leisure are the two civilizers of man.

Sometimes in the black culture, being raised as an independent woman is misconstrued as someone who doesn't need a man. I think that's wrong. I think we all need someone.

We did not know there were other people besides the Indian until about one hundred winters ago, when some men with white faces came to our country.

A man who lived on the banks of the Niger should not wash his hands with spittle.

The mistake that straight people made was imposing the monogamous expectation on men. Men were never expected to be monogamous.

This is so American, man: either make something your God and cosmos and then worship it, or else kill it.

Language is one of the greatest gifts man has devised for himself. It ranks, alongside the discovery of fire and the wheel, as a major influence in making modern man what he is today.

Men who sit back and pride themselves on their culture haven't any to speak of.

The family spirit has rendered man carnivorous.

...men can only be highly civilized while other men, inevitably less civilized, are there to guard and feed them.

All men, however highly educated, retain some superstitious inklings.

A man builds a house in England with the expectation of living in it and leaving it to his children; we shed our houses in America as easily as a snail does his shell.

Wherever men have lived, there is a story to be told

Men must speak English who can write Sanskrit; they must speak a modern language who write, perchance, an ancient and universal one.

Every man with a bellyful of the classics is an enemy to the human race.

At the ATM they ask if you'd like to conduct your business in English or Spanish. I suggest you try Spanish, because your account balance will look much better in pesos.

Ego is a structure that is erected by a neurotic individual who is a member of a neurotic culture against the facts of the matter. And culture, which we put on like an overcoat, is the collectivized consensus about what sort of neurotic behaviors are acceptable.

The imagination is the goal of history. I see culture as an effort to literally realize our collective dreams.

place is not just where one happens to find oneself. Place is imbued with history, humanity, and power—the complex relationships and interactions that make us who we are.

It feels sadder when a black person says Nigga Because it sounds like Nigger.

Mary: What are you teaching Him at that public high school of yours, Mrs. McElroy? Joshua: She's teaching Me that this town is the armpit of Western civilization.

In our culture, our relationship to relationships tends to be passive. We get what we get, and then we react to it.