Quotes About Culture

Les villes sont le gouffre de l'espèce humaine.

Russia will never be really civilized, because it was civilized too soon. Peter has a genius for imitation; but he lacked true genius, which is creative and makes all from nothing. ... His first wish was to make Germans or Englishmen, when he ought to have been making Russians; and he prevented his subjects from ever becoming what they might have been by persuading them that they were what they are not.

The mind, as well as the body, has its needs: those of the body are the basis of society, those of the mind its ornaments

On sent, je crois, qu'avoir de la religion, pour un enfant, et même pour un homme, c'est suivre celle où il est né. Quelquefois on en ôte ; rarement on y ajoute ; la foi dogmatique est un fruit de l'éducation.

There are in all ages men born to be in bondage to the opinions of the society in which they live.

1. sports 2. opera 3. weapons.

I instinctively decided that I would prove that I wasn't different, that it should not be odd to hear me speaking English. From that day forward I lived with this double impulse:the urge to disappear and the desperate desire to be accepted

New Yorkers, I figured, just pretended to be unfriendly.

The baby went without a name for weeks. Mom said she wanted to study it first, the way she would the subject of a painting. We had a lot of arguments over what the name should be. I wanted to call her Rosita, after the prettiest girl in my class, but Mom said the name was too Mexican. I thought we weren't supposed to be prejudiced, I said. It's not being prejudiced, Mom said. It's a matter of accuracy in labeling.

Elvis Presley's death was a turning point in news coverage;

C'est le genre boys band avec des mocassins à glands.

Poetry is the work of the bard and of the people who inspire him.

I think in some parts of our English history we've had huge amounts of almost too much great comedy. You kind of wonder how so much great work could come out of one country.

A realization and a dissection of the canon gave rise to the work. But there's also a sneaking suspicion of the canon.

If you wish at once to do nothing and be respectable nowadays, the best pretext is to be at work on some profound study.

I'd love to work more with the American Indians, my people.

On what high-performing companies should be striving to create: A great place for great people to do great work.

It is possible to deal with the entire environment as a work of art.

When women work on reclaiming the lost part of themselves, they're also working on reclaiming the lost soul of the culture as well.

It's important to me to work in my own language now and then. I love English, but you can never learn to master a foreign language if you're not brought up with it

You have to work at creating your own culture.

If the right job came along, absolutely with bells on I would work in Sweden.

At Cambridge, it was the weirdest culture. Everyone pretended they didn't do any work, yet it was so competitive.

Kenneth Hari's art work shall influence mankind.