Quotes About Culture

What is conserved in the ground? Stone, bronze, ivory, bone, sometimes pottery. Never wood objects, no fabric or skins. That completely skews our notions about primitive man.

This is what you learned in college," the narrator tells you early on. "A man desires the satisfaction of his desire; a woman desires the condition of desiring.

The gymnasiacs of Venice, in California, are so addicted to these practices that there has arisen a nation of men who can no longer put their arms against their sides

Of what use is it to please the herd? They are simply coarse animals - for all that is admirable in man is the artificial product of special breeding.

I asked a Jewish man, "Do you know where Michigan Avenue is?" He said, "Yes", and walked away.

A man will not need to study history to find out what is best for his own culture.

I describe not men, but manners; not an individual, but a species.

England always seems to me like a man swimming with his clothes on his head.

I'm not a very religious man, but I'm proud to be a Jew.

A man says what he knows, a woman says what will please.

The man who is seeking truth is free of all societies and cultures.

Well, men go to musicals. Women are the ones that buy the tickets for plays.

A traveler's chief aim should be to make men wiser and better, and to improve their minds by the bad-as well as good example of what they deliver concerning foreign places.

Women aren't interested in being sexy any more and men are. All the guys have objectified themselves and sexualised themselves into being just matinee idols.

Mathematics is as old as Man.

If we just allowed women and men more leeway in our culture and more acceptance, I think they would be able to make better compromises.

The primary cause of this national crisis is the feminization of men.

Men need history; it helps them to have an idea of who they are. But history, like sanctity, can reside in the heart; it is enough that there is something there.

I'm not into digital marketing, downloading, or streaming - I've always been a man of the theaters.

You've got to appreciate the things that come from the art of the Negro and from the heart of the man farthest down.

Say, Cuttino. What are those Godawful clothes you're wearing? Man, this ain't Rhode Island anymore. You're in the NBA. The girls have teeth here.

We sort of expect to see men in women's clothes. It's part of our culture. The key thing is, it has to be done quite badly.

Im Jamaican, man. Im Jamaican first. You gotta understand thats where Im from. Thats home. That you can never take away from me. Im a Jamaican-born Canadian sprinter.

You cannot imagine the wild enthusiasm that these two men created in Vienna. Newspapers went into raptures over each new waltz, and innumerable articles appeared about Lanner and Strauss.