Quotes About Culture

Human women have been slapping men for being bastards for centuries. You were doing what comes naturally.

Moral habits, induced by public practices, are far quicker in making their way into men's private lives, than the failings and faults of individuals are in infecting the city at large.

No man surely has so short a memory as the American.

You don't know Mexico, man. You have trivialized Mexico. You are a fool about Mexico if you think that Mexico is five blocks. That is not Mexico; that is some crude Americanism you have absorbed.

Men who listen to classical music tend not to spit.

There's a new tribunal now higher than God's -The educated man's!

The American does not drink at meals as a sensible man should. Indeed, he has no meals. He stuffs for ten minutes thrice a day.

A man is in general better pleased when he has a good dinner upon his table, than when his wife talks Greek.

It is in refinement and elegance that the civilized man differs from the savage.

Come, let me know what it is that makes a Scotch man happy!

You have two things happening: You have the cultural and economic reality of men falling apart and traditional masculinity falling apart.

American Muse, whose strong and diverse heart So many men have tried to understand But only made it smaller with their art, Because you are as various as your land.

Boys, young men, men of all ages are being captivated by the new visual grammar which pushes men to pout and posture.

A man must stand up for what he believes in - especially in this culture war between good and evil.

I mention my age because I find people in this country - women, not men, of course - women are so troubled by their age. There's a culture of youth, and it's a phony culture.

It is not the office of art to spotlight alternatives, but to resist by its form alone the course of the world, which permanently puts a pistol to men's heads.

Men don't wear fashion any more except in Italy and London. Americans have lost that.

The true speech of man is idiomatic, if not of the earth and sky, then at least of the saloon and the bleachers.

The word "artist" means man unless qualified by the category "woman.

The nature of man is evil; what is good in him is artificial.

Men had been living a proud life, having felt no need for the spirit-until Christianity invented it.

In the last two or three decades, there's been a feminization of the man in popular media that I've never really understood.

The cultured man is an artist, an artist in humanity.

Given the cultural barriers to intersex conversation, the amazing thing is that we would even expect women and men to have anything to say to each other for more than ten minutes at a stretch.