Quotes About Culture

The gross feeder is a man in the larva state; and there are whole nations in that condition, nations without fancy or imagination,whose vast abdomens betray them.

This bird sees the white man come and the Indian withdraw, but it withdraws not. Its untamed voice is still heard above the tinkling of the forge... It remains to remind us of aboriginal nature.

One revelation has been made to the Indian, another to the white man.

A tanned skin is something more than respectable, and perhaps olive is a fitter color than white for a man,--a denizen of the woods. "The pale white man!" I do not wonder that the African pitied him.

A man may grow rich in Turkey even, if he will be in all respects a good subject of the Turkish government.

It is a ridiculous demand which England and America make, that you shall speak so that they can understand you. Neither men nor toadstools grow so.

These men of many nations must be taught American ways, the English language, and the right way to live.

The avant-garde and the beatniks share in the function of entertaining without endangering the good conscience of the men of good will.

Soft men tend to be born from soft countries.

A man of refined taste and judgment.

There has been a big debate about it: can a black man play a Nordic character?

Man is apt to be more moved by the art of his own period, not because it is more perfect, but because it is organically related to him.

I call that brilliant sequence of cultural peaks The Ascent of Man.

I do not pretend that all that white men do is properly Christianized.

The consideration of human suffering is not one which enters into the calculations of primitive man.

What we do in New Orleans, man - we party!

50% of Americas population spends less than 10 dollars a month on romance. You know what we call these people? Men!

All men, even those we call savages, have been so tormented by the passion for strong drinks, that limited as their capacities were, they were yet able to manufacture them.

The gestures and the swagger and the attitude of black men is imitated everywhere in American culture, but people still find black men intolerable.

You think about every piece of idiomatic speech adopted by white men over the past ten or twenty years; virtually all of it comes from hip-hop.

I love a good fitted suit. England is known for men who can wear good suits.

The belief in a Divine education, open to each man and to all men, takes up into itself all that is true in the end proposed by culture, supplements, and perfects it.

Inferior thinking and writing will make a name for a man among inferior people, who in all ages and countries, are the majority.

Seasoned life of man preserved and stored up in books.