Quotes About Culture

This country was a lot better off when the Indians were running it.

Western civilization, unfortunately, does not link knowledge and morality but rather, it connects knowledge and power and makes them equivalent.

Tribalism is the strongest force at work in the world today.

My family was all born in Sicily and I'm Italian-American. They're the real thing. They're authentic Italians, and honestly they're the most open-minded, nicest people in the world and nothing can really offend them. That's the way I think true Sicilians are.

I do believe that there are African Americans who have thick accents. My mom has a thick accent my relatives have thick accents. But sometimes you have to adjust when you go into the world of film, TV, theatre, in order to make it accessible to people.

The cleverest women hide it and create an aura of wit and charm instead. Those who can't wait a moment to prove how much smarter than men they are--Dios, what bores! A man might as well invite a bearded professor to lunch than a female with all her mental pencils sharpened; instead of being an amusing companion she sits for an examination, gobbling food and words and waving her hands about like a merchant in a bazaar. It is probably the Spaniard in me that dislikes the type!

the designation of wife in India, of the Hindu wife, is higher and grander than that of Empress. She is called Devi

In international commerce, India is an ancient country-(19th October, 1899)

Somewhere there must be women reading books, and talking of chicken rissoles to their cooks … (from,'Somewhere in England')

Really I don't like human nature unless all candied over with art.

Me hace gracia, desde entonces, escuchar como los hombres disertan sobre la estupidez de las mujeres que adoran el poder, el dinero o la fama, como si adorar un liguero fuera menos estúpido...

Being insecure -- now that's femininity. Unassuming. A good listener. Not too intellectually impressive. Just cultured enough to understand what some asshole has to say. Chatting is feminine. Anything that doesn't leave a mark.

Pretender que los hombres y las mujeres se llevaban mejor antes de los años setenta es una contraverdad histórica. Nos frecuentábamos menos, eso es todo.

No querer a las mujeres, cuando se es hombre, es una actitud. No querer a los hombres, cuando se es mujer, es una patología.

The political strategy of victimizing prostitutes also serves this purpose of branding male desire and confining it in its own squalor. He can pay to come if he wants, but he'll have to rub shoulders with filth, shame, and poverty. The prostitution transaction -- "I pay you, you satisfy me" -- is the basis of the heterosexual contract. It is hypocritical to pretend, as we do, that this transaction is foreign to our culture.

Dizem com frequência que a pornografia aumenta o número de estupros. Hipócrita e absurdo. Como se a agressão sexual fosse uma invenção recente, e como se tivesse sido introduzida em nossos espíritos através dos filmes.

Le Canada, c'est bien – une destination qui n'intéresse personne, qu'on n'aille pas lui poser des questions auxquelles il ne saurait pas répondre. Je bois du sirop d'érable, les Hells Angels sont toujours aussi méchants, la coke est bon marché, les filles sont chaudes mais il faut s'habituer à l'accent.

Consuming pornography does not lead to more sex, it leads to more porn. Much like eating McDonalds everyday will accustom you to food that (although enjoyable) is essentially not food, pornography conditions the consumer to being satisfied with an impression of extreme sex rather than the real.

Rape doesn't disturb the peace, it's already part and parcel of the city.

Dans la morale judéo-chrétienne, mieux vaut être prise de force que prise pour une chienne, on nous l'a assez répété.

America's obsession with defining homosexuality by its third syllable contrasts sharply with more human exercises from Europe.

The opposition of reason and religion that runs through the French Enlightenment of the eighteenth century, which identified religion with the Catholic Church, would have been incomprehensible to Leibniz, and a like opposition never gained a footing in German culture even after him. On the contrary, the acutest critic of Christianity, Nietzsche, shows his German roots by the fact that he simultaneously wages war on reason - which would again have been incomprehensible to Voltaire.

We all know about morality, and we all know about duty, but at the same time we find that in different countries the significance of morality varies greatly.

We loved once, and we loved badly. We loved again, and again we loved badly. We did it a third time, and we were no longer living in a world free of experience. We saw that love did not make us tender, wise, or compassionate. Under its influence we gave up neither our fears nor our angers. Within ourselves we remained unchanged. The development was an astonishment: not at all what had been expected. The atmosphere became charged with revelation, and it altered us permanently as a culture.