Quotes About Culture

Before writing was invented and before scientific archaeology started, word-of-mouth storytelling, with all its Chinese Whispery distortions, was the only way people learned about history.

Any effect that a meme has on the behaviour of a body bearing it may influence that meme's chance of surviving.

Bir ça??n dini, bir sonrakinin edebi eÄŸlencesidir. Ralph Waldo

When we die there are two things we can leave behind us: genes and memes.

God exists, if only in the form of a meme with high survival value, or infective power, in the environment provided by human culture.

Anthropologically informed works, from Sir James Frazer's Golden Bough to Pascal Boyer's Religion Explained or Scott Atran's In Gods We Trust, fascinatingly document the bizarre phenomenology of superstition and ritual. Read such books and marvel at the richness of human gullibility. But that is not

And, for speakers of Arabic and Indian languages, knowledge of the Qur'an or the Bhagavad Gita is presumably just as essential for full appreciation of their literary heritage.

An 'idea-meme' might be defined as an entity that is capable of being transmitted from one brain to another.

Like all immigrants, he seemed to have an unerring instinct for the oldest, truest words in his new language. The way he said the word, it felt free of the treacherous weight of mate

Much has been made about the death of the novel and the end of literature as it's seen to be assailed by technology, by the web, by the many and varied new forms of entertainment and culture. I don't share that pessimism because I think it is one of the great inventions of the human spirit.

Ulysses'. No one reads him anymore. No one reads anything anymore. They think Browning is a gun.

He was your cobber? Like all immigrants, he seemed to have an unerring instinct for the oldest, truest words in his new language. The way he said the word, it felt free of the treacherous weight of mate.

heteronormativity.

that it was good for different cultures to come together, and chip away at human prejudice one party at a time.

It's just the South. There's no point trying to explain it.

Sometimes, when people in the South tell you to have a blessed day, it means fuck you and I hope you have a nice time in hell.

People here talk about firearms and hunting in the same way that urban liberals go on about nutrition and exercise.

No state has a more beautiful name—Miss and Sis are sipping on something sippy, and it's probably a sweet tea or an iced bourbon drink—but no state is more synonymous in the rest of the country with racism, ignorance, and cultural backwardness.

Alan Lomax recordings of the prisoners singing

And it is significant that some of the bitterest indictments of mass culture have come from writers who were, or still are, democratic socialists.

Confucianism and Taoism were native to China, but its third religion, Buddhism, was an import from India.

The idea is that criminals are distinctive in psychological (perhaps even biological) ways. They are deficient, depending on the particular theory, in conscience or in self-restraint. They lack normal attachment to the mores of their culture, or they are peculiarly indifferent to the feelings or the good opinion of others. They

Kültür, kirli hava gibidir. Fark?nda olmasan?z dahi etkilenirsiniz.

The way I see it, anyone who's proud of their country is either a thug or just hasn't read enough history yet.