Quotes About Culture

A love for tradition has never weakened a nation, indeed it has strengthened nations in their hour of peril.

We have always found the Irish a bit odd. They refuse to be English.

St Patrick was a Roman Briton of good family dwelling probably in the Severn valley.

I would make them all learn English: and then I would let the clever ones learn Latin as an honour, and Greek as a treat.

I had no idea in those days of the enormous and unquestionably helpful part that humbug plays in the social life of great peoples.

Môr o gân yw Cymru i gyd. [All Wales is a sea of song.]

It is difficult to believe that the European emigrants by whom America has been populated took away with them all the virtues and left behind them all the vices of the races from which they had sprung; or that a few generations of residence on the other side of the Atlantic Ocean is sufficient to create an order of beings definitely superior in morals, in culture, and in humanity to their prototypes in Europe.

Ingratitude towards their great men," says Plutarch, "is the mark of strong peoples.

No two cities have counted more with mankind than Athens and Jerusalem. Their messages in religion, philosophy, and art have been the main guiding lights of modern faith and culture.

the French Canadians… derived greater pleasure from singing "God Save the King" than from singing "Rule Britannia.

the Chinese have a very peculiar code of ethics, which makes them regard it as a more dishonourable thing not to pay a gambling debt than to commit murder.

The Late Bronze Age in the southern parts of Britain, according to most authorities, began about 1000 B.C. and lasted until about 400 B.C.

India is a geographical term. It is no more a united nation than the Equator.

if I must add one word of criticism to the Vikings [it is] that they were entirely lacking in any conception of neutrality.

Lord Curzon quotes a great French agnostic and adopts his phrase: "All civilisations are the work of aristocracies." It would be much more true to say that the upkeep of aristocracy has been the hard work of all civilisations.

Only what is human can truly be foreign. The rest is mixed vegetation, subversive moles, and wind.

Homeland is not a blot on a map but the living essence of man

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The history of culture indicates that stupidity is the twin sister of reason, it grows most luxuriously not on the soil of virgin ignorance, but on soil cultivated by the sweat of doctors and professors.

It seems to me that, in every culture, I come across a chapter headed 'Wisdom.' And then I know exactly what is going to follow: 'Vanity of vanities, all is vanity.

Possibilities for women have become so open-ended that they threaten to destabilize the institutions on which a male-dominated culture has depended, and a collective panic reaction on the part of both sexes has forced a demand for counter images. The Beauty Myth

he must have thought: this is a young fellow and a stupid German besides - that's just how all French speak of the Germans - he will be guite content with this - but the stupid German was not content (...).

In California, they don't throw their garbage away - they make it into TV shows.

Tradition is the illusion of permanence.