Quotes About Culture

You're a function of an impersonal cultural totality. You have no standards of your own. In the twentieth century men had personal standards of workmanship, artistic craft, pride of accomplishment, these words mean nothing to you. You have no soul.

I will be at loose ends without a countryman to talk to." "I'm not a countryman of yours," Baynes said. "Oh, yes; that's so. But racially, you're quite close. For all intents and purposes the same.

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The human society has evolved war as a cultural institution, like the science of astronomy, or mathematics. War is a part of our lives, a career, a respected vocation. Bright, alert young men and women move into it, putting their shoulders to the wheel as they did in the time of Nebuchadnezzar. It has always been so.

A man can be defined as an animal that carries a pocket handkerchief

Our patriotic idiosyncratic ethnic patterns survive because they can be learned by any replacement generation

La forma en la que no te miran es casi japonesa.

Knocking TV. It's a national pastime in itself. Think in your mind of all the homes, people sitting around saying, 'What's happened to this country? Where's the level of education gone? The morality?

Without a woman we'd discuss racing cars and horses and tell dirty jokes; no civilization.

You're a function of an impersonal cultural totality.

You're confusing technology with culture. You look at this and say, 'What a great civilization man has built,' when you really mean, 'What a great technology mankind has developed.' There's all the difference in the world. Technology is of the mind and hands. Civilization is of the spirit—and spiritually we are still in the Dark Ages.

There were many human groups that did not go to war; the Eskimos never grasped the idea at all, and the American Indians never took to it well. But these dissenters were wiped out, and a cultural pattern was established that became the standard for the whole planet. Now it has become ingrained in us.

Without stories, we wouldn't be human beings at all

Stories are the most important thing in the world. Without stories, we wouldn't be human beings at all.

We measure the value of a civilized society by the number of Libraries it opens, not the number it closes down.

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I never wanted to be Protestant. Jews do, plenty of them. Not me. To be assimilated, to be respectable, to be detached like the Wasps, I understand the desire, but I knew never to try. I see all those distinguished Wasps with the beautiful gray hair and the pinstripe suits who don't have pimples on their ass. They're my lawyers....These guys are quiet. I don't want to be that way. I couldn't begin to be that way. I'm the wild Jew of the pampas. I am the Golem of the U.S.A.

If you don't know the fantasy life of a country, it's hard to write fiction about it.

In America everything goes and nothing matters, while in Europe nothing goes and everything matters.

Not to be rich, not to be famous, not to be mighty, not even to be happy, but to be civilized--that was the dream of his life.

Meneer Portnoy,' zei ze terwijl ze haar knapzak optilde, 'u bent alleen maar een jood die een hekel heeft aan zichzelf.' 'Ah, maar Naomi, dat zijn misschien juist de beste.

Nathan, your story, as far as Gentiles are concerned, is about one thing and one thing only. Listen to me, before you go. It is about kikes. Kikes and their love of money.