Quotes About Culture

After they had accustomed themselves at Rome to the spectacles of the slaughter of animals, they proceeded to those of the slaughter of men, to the gladiators.

When the Ngdanga tribe of West Africa hold their moon love ceremonies, the men of the tribe bang their heads on sacred trees until they get a nose bleed, which usually cures them of that.

Memphis was almost like going to California. Beale Street was the black man's street.

You can't take no Chinese man and give him no Puerto Rican woman and talking like they're in love and emotionally in love and physically.

I have engaged in hyper-male culture, and I'm learning about it, and I'm learning how I can change and help young boys and young men change.

Socially, the issue of men's weight is simply not a big deal.

I've decided to just keep doing Oh, Hello, where I play an older man who thinks he's very cultured. That clearly has not gone away.

No man born of woman has ever understood spoken Portuguese.

Didgeridoo was something I picked up while I was on tour in Australia with Peter Gabriel in '93. I found out later that it's only meant to be played by men.

Although the mass of the people accepted the white man's God, either under physical duress or because he seemed more powerful than their own Gods, they never assimilated the ideas of Christianity.

Men at an earlier age, get the feminine aspects of them wrung out in a variety of ways.

The mealy look of men today is the result of momism and so is the pinched and baffled fury in the eyes of womankind.

One made the observation of the people of Asia that they were all slaves to one man, merely because they could not pronounce that syllable No.

To be thoroughly imbued, with the liberal arts refines the manners, and makes men to be mild and gentle in their conduct.

I find it more credible, since it is anterior information, that one man should know heaven, as the Chinese say, than that so many men should know the world.

The saint and poet seek privacy to ends the most public and universal: and it is the secret of culture, to interest the man more in his public, than in his private quality.

Fashion which affects to be honor, is often, in all men's experience, only a ballroom-code.

The general image of a man in an American sitcom is like a complete moron. You'd think the industry was run by a feminist cabal.

... we may remember what the Romansthought a cultivated person ought to be: one who knows how to choose his company among men, among things, among thoughts, in the present as well as in the past.

If there is one country and its people that have contributed most to western civilisation's man-made world continuously for the last 2000 years, it must surely be Italy.

Photography is the only "language" understood in all parts of the world, and, bridging all nations and cultures, it links the family of man.

The civilized man is a more experienced and wiser savage.

Such were garrulous and noisy eras, which no longer yield any sound, but the Grecian or silent and melodious era is ever soundingand resounding in the ears of men.

Even in civilized communities, the embryo man passes through the hunter stage of development.