Quotes About Culture

New York City today still preserves qualities which existed in seventeenth-century New Amsterdam—and Old Amsterdam

race slavery did not create the culture of the southern colonies; that culture created slavery.

Two generations ago, historians wrote of European saints and Indian savages. In the last generation, too many scholars have been writing about Indian saints and European savages. The opportunity for our generation is to go beyond that calculus of saints and savages altogether, and write about both American Indians and Europeans with maturity, empathy, and understanding.

When one southerner was asked why so many people were killed in his region, he answered that "there were just more folks in the South that needed killing.

Whenever a culture exists for many generations in conditions of chronic insecurity, it develops an ethic that exalts war above work, force above reason, and men above women.

Some of these words appear in metropolitan French, but a person of Saintonge who speaks the parlanjhe of the region is uniquely called a goulebenèze, literally, a happy mouth.

On September 11th, America changed. Yes. It got much stupider.

We live in a country which is spavined with ancestor- worship. This country will never, can never prosper until it escapes from its past.

What is a city? What should it be? Why do we live in groups? What do we want from cities? And who decides?

Why, in the Peking Opera, are women's roles played by men?...Because only a man knows how a woman is supposed to act.

Judge: But why would that make it possible for you to fool Monsieur Gallimard? Please--get to the point. Song: One, because when he finally met his fantasy woman, he wanted more than anything to believe that she was, in fact, a woman. And second, I am an Oriental. And being an Oriental, I could never be completely a man.

Don't forget: there is no homosexuality in China!

Mathematics knows no races or geographical boundaries; for mathematics, the cultural world is one country.

Wir dürfen nicht denen glauben, die heute mit philosophischer Miene und über-legenem Tone den Kulturuntergang prophezeien und sich in dem Ignorabimus gefallen. Füruns gibt es kein Ignorabimus, und meiner Meinung nach auch für die Naturwissenschaftüberhaupt nicht. Statt des törichten Ignorabimus heisse im Gegenteil unsere Lösung: Wir müssen wissen. Wir werden wissen.

During the Sixties, we also became a culture of splinter-groups, of people who identified ourselves according to ethnicity, gender, special interests—a galaxy of minorities, united only by a sensibility that now regarded society at large with suspicion.

As Pax Christi USA, a Catholic organization, explained: "Law in the U.S. protects white skin privilege because white male landowners created the laws to protect their rights, their culture and their wealth.

Most of us who are not Wampanoag or American Indian will never fully grasp the raw emotions indigenous people associate with Thanksgiving.

People no longer rely on the Bible as either their standard for living or their source of truth. In fact, few people even bother to read it anymore.

soon as a culture has reached a certain level, probably measured largely by its literacy, cryptography appears spontaneously—as

The Arabic knowledge of cryptography was fully set forth in the section on cryptology in the Subh al-a 'sha, an enormous, 14-volume encyclopedia

We, the parents of this generation, along with the degrading entertainment media, the biased news media, the lying politicians, the brainwashing government school system, and the rest of society's once-great institutions whose degradation we have tolerated, are responsible.

America was being replaced by a new source of wisdom

This much is clear. At fourteen, Shimonkeh was old enough to bristle at the sight of the leather-jacketed Jewish police that the Nazis appointed to cow and club and rob their own kind. He was old enough to burn with desire, to fall in love, to ache for beauty and dream of violent, heroic revenge. He was old enough to take part in the culture of his city and to feel proud that, as one writer put it, 'the insanely wild conditions of life did not break the Jewish creative spirit.

Pink is female - but why? Are girls any more pink than boys? Are boys any more blue than girls? It's something that has been sold to us, mostly so other things can be sold to us.