Quotes About Culture

populismo no está sólo en los políticos y en los gobiernos. Está en la sociedad.

Esa sociedad ha democratizado su sistema electoral, pero no sus valores y su cultura cívica. Era demasiado moderna para vivir en el molde de PRI. No es suficientemente moderna para construir una democracia estable.

Lo exótico en el México independiente no era el monarquismo, sino la república.

El nacionalismo revolucionario absorbió todas las señas de identidad del pasado en un mezcla única.

Las leyes incumplibles, compendios éticos de sueños nacionales, tienen un efecto invisible profundamente corruptor sobre la cultura cívica

La ciudadanía mexicana tiene una memoria histórica vigorosa, pero llena de fantasías que ayudan poco a la construcción de una cultura democrática.

Se es mexicano, entre otras cosas, porque se comparte la veneración de esas violencias y esos martirologios.

Victimismo y resentimiento son caras de la misma moneda. Una de esas monedas ha sido nuestro nacionalismo.

addition to the stresses and sorrows of a miner's life, there is the fortitude, brotherhood, and sense of self-worth mining's hypermasculine culture

English is the product of a Saxon warrior trying to make a date with an Angle bar-maid, and as such is no more legitimate than any of the other products of that conversation.

you know what English is? The result of the efforts of Norman men-at-arms to make dates with Saxon barmaids.

On Aditya, such would be unthinkable; on Aditya, everybody respects authority. Whether it's respectable or not.

Gresham's law, extended: Bad manners drive out good manners.

is devoted to civilization or anything else outside himself, and that's the mark of the barbarian.

No one ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public.

The library remains a sacred place for secular folk [What Libraries Can (Still) Do, The New York Review Daily, October 26, 2015].

Whites acted in a superior manner for so long that it was difficult for them to even recognize their cultural and spiritual arrogance, blatant as it was to African Americans.

A biscuit eater is an ornery dog. He won't hunt anything except his own biscuits. And he'll suck eggs and steal chickens and run coons and jump rabbits. To a bird dog man, a biscuit eater is the lowest form of animal life. Strangers in Mississippi often are puzzled by the expression until natives, who usually eat biscuits instead of light bread, explain that a biscuit eater is a no 'count hound that isn't good for anything except to hunt his meat and biscuits.

Those were dreadful words. "Not many minutes" was a common phrase in Yorkshire and could mean anything up to two hours.

The soul of our civilization depends upon the civilization of our soul. The imagination of our culture calls for a culture of the imagination.

Azi nu prea mai credem în astfel de relaÈ›ii ale inimii. Am fost înv??aÈ›i s? privim cu ochiul genital. Nu ne putem imagina atracÈ›ii bazate pe imaginaÈ›ie. În cultura la care am ajuns as?zi, dorinÈ›a trebuie s? vin? din inconÈ™tientul sexual, leg?turile trebuie s? fie copulative; confesiunile deschise sunt de fapt seducÈ›ii manipulative.

The jewel has facets," said the Chinese, "and it is possible that many religions are moderately true.

Are you interested, by the way, in etchings? I have one or two here that are considered to be rather choice.

But that was not all. He foresaw a time when men, exultant in the technique of homicide, would rage so hotly over the world that every precious thing would be in danger, every book and picture and harmony, every treasure garnered through two millenniums, the small, the delicate, the defenseless—all would be lost like the lost books of Livy, or wrecked as the English wrecked the Summer Palace in Pekin.