Quotes About Culture

It seems to me you do not care what banality a man expresses so long as he expresses it in Irish.

The way good inventions are made is to familiarize yourself with those of others. The men who cultivate letters and the arts are all sons of Homer.

You might be a redneck if the tobacco chewers in your family aren't just men.

You might be a redneck if you think the Mountain Men in Deliverance were just misunderstood.

When I was young, I loved black men.

I will insist that the Hebrews have done more to civilize man than any other nation.

Fit men walking around and bathing, it would be just like being in Ancient Rome [on a footballers dressing room

Ebonics - or black English, as I prefer to call it - is one of a great many dialects of English. And so English comes in a great many varieties, and black English is one of them.

A man that has a taste of music, painting, or architecture, is like one that has another sense, when compared with such as have no relish of those arts

The greatest man is he who forms the taste of a nation; the next greatest is he who corrupts it.

I'm not a feminist. I hail men, I love men. I celebrate American male culture, and beer, and bars and muscle cars.

It is only the vulgar who are always fancying themselves insulted. If a man treads on another's toe in good society, do you think it is taken as an insult?

Of course, the simple explanation of the fact is that marriage is the most important act of man's life in Europe or America, and that everything depends upon it.

But it is a black man's game, and it will be forever.

All the arts, which have a tendency to raise man in the scale of being, have a certain common band of union, and are connected, if I may be allowed to say so, by blood-relationship with one another.

A man accustomed to American food and American domestic cookery would not starve to death suddenly in Europe, but I think he would gradually waste away, and eventually die.

The literate man is a sucker for propaganda...You cannot propagandize a native. You can sell him rum and trinkets, but you cannot sell him ideas.

Being abroad makes you conscious of the whole imitative side of human behavior. The ape in man.

When an American heiress wants to buy a man, she at once crosses the Atlantic. The only really materialistic people I have ever met have been Europeans.

Men of culture are the true apostles of equality

Men of polite learning and a liberal education.

Berlin is liberation. Architecture, man!

Men will sooner surrender their rights than their customs.

In the United States adherence to the values of the masculine mystique makes intimate, self-revealing, deep friendships between men unusual.