Quotes About Culture

It is imposible to understand sex as we see it nowadays - a mere response to a few physical stimuli. In reality, it is far more than that, and carries with it man's and humanity's entire cultural burden. Each time we face a new experience, we bring with us all past experiences - both good and bad - as well as those concepts which civilization has made into rules.

if you're not in touch with your roots, you feel as if you've lost touch with the world

The world speaks many languages, the boy thought

You know I love Brother Buddha, but until he reincarnates as a black man in America, I think we better go with what we know." Joyce

When I return to that house it will be with my son in my arms. I shall have a red coat on him and red-flowered trousers and on his head a hat with a small gilded Buddha sewn on the front and on his feet tiger-faced shoes. And I will wear new shoes and a new coat of black sateen and I will go into the kitchen where I spent my days and I will go into the great hall where the Old One sits with her opium, and I will show myself and my son to all of them.

wept, and in the wrinkles of old people. In the house of the Manchu Bannerman

But I am fearful of it because I hear she is learned in the Four Books, and learning has never accompanied beauty in women.

I am never better pleased than when I know a book of mine can be bought for fifty cents or, better still, for twenty-five. No people can be educated or even cultivated until books are cheap enough for everybody to buy.

The SOUL of a NATION is found in its PEOPLE.

after the ancient ondul fashion.

This country of his was not like some others he had heard of, where only in war was there work enough to be done. He had often sat listening in the tea shop to those who talked of things they had seen in foreign countries, and this he held was a main difference, that in foreign countries war was a business, but here it had never been.

under the decree and guidance of the great King Sejong.

Cómo podían conocer los médicos extranjeros las enfermedades de una mujer china? Quizá entiendan las enfermedades de los bárbaros, pero no las de los refinados y cultos chinos...

As culture critic Dara Mathis tweeted about Kanye West, 'Daughters are not spiritual retribution for your misogyny.' They are neither a form of punishment nor tiny spiritual guides sent to newly show you the humanity of girls and women.

Psychologist Michael Thompson has pointed out that silence in the face of cruelty or sexism is how boys become men.

I know that if i could imbue her with a superpower, it would be the ability to withstand the pressures of the cultures around her, to be her own woman despite the potential costs: i would give her the courage of her convictions

The culture is littered with female body parts, with clothes and posturing that purportedly express sexual confidence. But who cares how "proud" you are of your body's appearance if you don't enjoy its responses?

interestingly, after age forty, men become the more dominant selfie posters—perhaps in midlife, women unconsciously render themselves invisible).

The Banh Mi sandwich is really the only good argument for colonialism.

There is a definite argument to be made that videogames are becoming an art form put together by artists of different types.

America is divided by a great argument about itself. Europe is divided by a great argument about America.

My dad, the old professor, used to say, 'Never get into an argument about what's folk music and what isn't.'

You can't help it. An artist's duty, as far as I'm concerned, is to reflect the times.

My people will sleep for one hundred years, but when they awake, it will be the artists who give them their spirit back.