Quotes About Culture

The moral world has no particular objection to vice, but an insuperable repugnance to hearing vice called by its proper name. A polite public will no more bear to read an authentic description of vice than a truly-refined English or American female will permit the word 'breeches' to be pronounced in her chaste hearing. And yet, madam, both are walking the world before our faces every day without much shocking us. If you were to blush every time they went by, what complexions you would have!

Un chiste común dice que en Colombia los ricos quieren ser ingleses, los intelectuales quieren ser franceses, la clase media quiere ser norteamericana y los pobres quieren ser mexicanos.

Although I write in English, and despite the fact that I'm from America, I consider myself an Armenian writer. The words I use are in English, the surroundings I write about are American, but the soul, which makes me write, is Armenian. This means I am an Armenian writer and deeply love the honor of being a part of the family of Armenian wrtiters.

If I want to do anything, I want to speak a more universal language.

What a lonely and silly thing it is to be an Armenian writer in America.

Morning is best when it begins with the last hours of night. ...Enough of culture's hours. I am a peasant. Enough of feasting. I want hunger. Enough of fat. I want muscle. Enough of pity. I want humor. Enough of vanity. I want pride.

A man's ethnic identity has more to do with a personal awareness than with geography.

I am an estranged man, said the liar: estranged from myself, from my family, my fellow man, my country, my world, my time, and my culture. I am not estranged from God, although I am a disbeliever in everything about God excepting God indefinable, inside all and careless of all.

A poverty-stricken nation with a great art is a greater nation than a wealthy nation with a poverty-stricken art.

Educated men are so impressive!

Their manners are more gentle, kind, than of our generation you shall find.

They are the books, the arts, the academes, That show, contain and nourish all the world.

This making of Christians will raise the price of hogs.

They have been at a great feast of languages, and stolen the scraps.

A feast of languages

the repressiveness of a society in general is directly proportionate to its harsh repression of sexual language." What

Down a narrow, nondescript Bangkok lane, the graceful red roofs of a traditional Thai residence rise above a lush tropical garden, in serene contrast with the city's modern clamor all around. This was the home of an American named Jim Thompson, and it stands today as a continuing memorial to a remarkable man and to his love for Thailand's rich culture.

We are global citizens with tribal souls', said the Danish poet Piet Hein.

A man's children should have an education. They should get out and see the world and meet people.

Of all the small nations of this earth, perhaps only the ancient Greeks surpass the Scots in their contribution to mankind.

Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse.

No bal maidens or spallers

Essere gentili è il dovere di ogni inglese che si rispetti.

The Trenwith Poldarks had never been sticklers for the agrémens