Quotes About Culture

As men begin to grow civilized, they cease to be satisfied with mere taboos.

Boys and young men acquire readily the moral sentiments of their social milieu, whatever these sentiments may be.

Where I come from, they don't think much of men who are bossed about by their wives.

I want men to be more chic - and Japanese style has that kind of sophisticated elegance.

Keeping the peace with the particular man in one's life becomes more essential than battling the mass male culture.

Without language, it is safe to say that man would not have become fully human.

I learned about machinery, I learned how men behaved under pressure, and I learned about Americans.

Cafe society is as old as the hills. Starbucks and its imitators are the coffee face of the new man in a hurry.

My father owned pit bulls when I was young. He sometimes fought them. My brother and a lot of the men in my community owned pit bulls as well: sometimes they fought them for honor, never for money.

Americans have never quite digested television. The mystique which should fade grows stronger. We make celebrities not only of the men who cause events but of the men who read reports of them aloud.

Im a sucker for accents and any man who can actually sing and serenade you.

When a woman weeps, it is a man's shame.

It is Christian culture that has created Western man and the Western way of life.

The first language that I learned was Italian in Italy in the early and middle-'60s and I had to do that to keep up with the young men who were courting my wife.

The sexual conquest is huge with men in terms of affirming themselves and their feelings of masculinity. That's a misguided kind of affirmation. That is not helpful, but that stuff happens.

I find myself increasingly shocked at the unthinking and automatic rubbishing of men which is now so part of our culture that it is hardly even noticed.

Women initiate most domestic violence, yet out of a thousand cases of domestic violence, maybe one is involving a man. And this has made a victim of culture out of women.

Men are virtuous because women are; women are virtuous from necessity.

Man, I was tame compared to what they do now. Are you kidding? I didn't do anything but just jiggle.

I may look like a nice Jewish girl from New Jersey, but inside I'm a 50-year-old, heavyset black man with a big thumb, like Wes Montgomery.

Business men who are busy the whole day and immediately go to bed after supper, snoring like cows, are not likely to contribute anything to culture.

Books are the building blocks of civilization and a people without books are a people without history, a people with no story older than the tales of the oldest man or woman.

Mass man is a phenomenon of electric speed, not of physical quantity.

The new media are not bridges between man and nature - they are nature...