Quotes About Culture

Nobody thanks a witty man for politeness when he puts himself on a par with a society in which it would not be polite to show one's wit.

Civilization merely develops man's capacity for a greater variety of sensations, and ... absolutely nothing else.

There is something wrong with our culture when the view that marriage is between one man and one woman, a view shared by half the nation, is portrayed as evidence of hatred.

The society of the Culture-Philistines makes life a burden to exceptional men.

Writing, not dancing, is the chosen form of expression of the white man.

When a Spanish man cries it's not a sign of weakness

English culture is basically homosexual in the sense that the men only really care about other men.

The Catholic Church is the only thing that saves man from the degrading slavery of being a child of his age.

The sort of man who admires Italian art while despising Italian religion is a tourist and a cad.

Never for one minute am I like, 'My husband, the white man, and our biracial children.' I never think about it.

Books represent the accumulated workings of the human mind, the endless treasures of man's thoughts.

With Southern actors you always think you're from the same place. Even if one is from Texas, one is from Georgia, you're like, "oh, you're just down the street, man."

Without the study of Samskrit one cannot become a true Indian and a true learned man.

Only a man who is ashamed of what he is will marry out of his race.

Men who are proud of being black marry black women; women who are proud of being black marry black men.

The Negro was taught to speak the white man's tongue, worship the white God, and accept the white man as his superior.

There has to be something wrong when a man or a woman leaves his own people and marries somebody of another kind.

Being Puerto Rican, born and raised on the streets of New York, you go, 'Wow, you're still friends with your ex, man? Really? That's weird.' I don't play that.

You can find inspiration for man's behaviour wherever you look.

Difference between savage and civilized man: one is painted, the other gilded.

When it comes down to pure ornamental cursing, the native American is gifted above the sons of men.

The only very marked difference between the average civilized man and the average savage is that the one is gilded and the other is painted.

The inauspiciousness of the owl is nothing but the inauspiciousness of the man who thinks that owl is inauspicious!

I say that male and female are cast in the same mold; except for education and habits, the difference is not great.