Quotes About Culture

Don't make a black woman take off her earrings".

On my mom's side I'm Mexican, and my dad is a white dude.

We live in different times. I would not have described London as a city of gun-toters but that was when Londoners still said sorry when you knock them over and called cappuccinos fluffy coffees & policemen, bobbies!

Chic rarely bothers to leave the Rue De Faubourg Saint-Honore.

The spirit of Mayfair beats in the soul of dandies and dandizettes everywhere.

Black women have always been these vixens, these animalistic erotic women. Why can't we just be the sexy American girl next door?

The fear of barbarians is what risks making us barbarians.

Nature is busy creating absolutely unique individuals, whereas culture has invented a single mold to which all must conform. It is grotesque.

Those who are marching into the battlefield and are ready to be killed today in the name of democracy, in the name of freedom, in the name of communism, are no different from those who threw themselves to the lions in the arenas. The Romans watched that fun with great joy. How are we different from them? Not a bit. We love it. To kill and to be killed is the foundation of our culture.

The body is not interested in your perceptions. It is not interested in learning anything from you or knowing anything from you. All the intelligence that is necessary for this living organism is already there. Our attempts to teach this body, or make it function differently from the way it is programmed by nature, are what are responsible for the battle that is going on. There is a battle between what is put in by culture and what is inherent there in the body.

As a human body it is an extraordinary piece of creation. But as a human being he is rotten because of the culture.

I don't have any moral position. Society, which has created all these sociopaths, has invented morality to protect itself from them. Count me out.

Society has put before you the ideal of a 'perfect man'. No matter in which culture you were born, you have scriptural doctrines and traditions handed down to you to tell you how to behave. You are told that through due practice you can even eventually come into the state attained by the sages, saints and saviors of mankind. And so you try to control your behavior, to control your thoughts, to be something unnatural.

All theory of modernity in sociology suggests that the more modernity there is, the less religion. In my theory we can realize that this is wrong: atheism is only one belief system among many.

Little things like language don't get in the way of a really good fillum.

sound and fury of these "my culture is better than your culture" conflicts between male-dominated colonial governments and male-dominated Third-World nationalist movements often served to obscure the fact that women were clearly second-class citizens in all these cultural contexts.

When asked if I consider myself Buddhist, the answer is, Not really. But it's more my religion than any other because I was brought up with it in an intellectual and spiritual environment. I don't practice or preach it, however.

Men are no more immune from emotions than women; we think women are more emotional because the culture lets them give free vent to certain feelings, "feminine" ones, that is, no anger please, but it's okay to turn on the waterworks.

For all practical purposes "race" is not so much a biological phenomenon as a social myth.

A woman worries about the future until she gets a husband, while a man never worries about the future until he gets a wife.

In primitive society, when native tribes beat the ground with clubs and yelled, it was called witchcraft; today, in civilized society, it is called golf

Don't be so superstitious.

France is an absolute monarchy, tempered by ballads.

An Irishman is the only man in the world who will step over the bodies of a dozen naked women to get to a bottle of stout.