Quotes About Culture

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not spawned by the lower classes but by the highest, by privileged young men and women made ignorant by the most expensive universities and schooled in violence by the culture of death that produced them.

We Westerners grew up having our most poignant feelings invoked by the I-IV-V chord progression that runs from Bach to pop.

Through our maps, we willingly become a part of their boundaries. If our home is included, we feel pride, perhaps familiarity, but always a sense that this is ours . If it is not, we accept our roles as outsiders, though we may be of the same mind and culture. In this way, maps can be dangerous and powerful tools.

A woman trying to function like a man is as ridiculous as a man trying to be like a woman. A unisex society is a senseless society—a society dangerously out of order.

Music does propagate myths and people have tried to make that myth more than it was.

Um leitor é sempre um estudante do mundo.

Fate. Now that's a loaded word. Like yoga or karma, it's one of those words that slipped out of its native culture and ended up a celebrity with an extreme makeover.

Thomas Jefferson took one look at permissive Parisian women and, comparing them to pious American maidens, declared: "A comparison of amazons to angels!" (Too bad he didn't live long enough to meet Britney Spears.)

Alexis de Tocqueville took one good hard look at America's growing colonies and noted: "America is the one country in the world where the most continual care has been taken to trace clearly separated lines of action for the two sexes, and where the wish is for them to walk with equal steps, but always on different paths.

author Véronique Vienne recalled how she had to work hard to adapt to the mandated cheerfulness of American culture when she moved from France to the States; she practiced her smile in the mirror, trying her best to look like "Miss Congenial ity," before concluding that "in this country, the obligation we feel to conform to exalted standards of happiness can be pure misery.

Enjo Kosai2 , a system whereby young schoolgirls prostitute themselves, has taken sex-crazed Tokyo by storm.

Heavy Metal: The Power Age

Living in Paris might kill her, but it was a good way to die.

The real meaning of stories depends on where they're told, when and to whom.

I said that one of the stories in the Arabian Nights is specifically about the urge to tell a story. It's primal, the need to tell. It's not about the listener but the storyteller. In some cultures, not telling your story is regarded as a sign of mental illness.

It's primal, the need to tell. It's not about the listener but the storyteller. In some cultures, not telling your story is regarded as a sign of mental illness.

I had grown up in the 1950s, with radio and television and Reader's Digest , and I had assumed that everyone around us was pretty much alike.

You was in all sorts of places, huh?" "Yeah, I was. Saw the world." "What'd you think of it?" "Different languages, same shit.

Not all the suburbs are white." "Name one that isn't. Just one." She tries. "Um . . ." He waits. "I can feel your look," she says. "It's very smug." "Our suburbs," he says, "are designed to escape the melting pot. But now they're telling all the people they left behind precisely how they should go about rubbing elbows.

A church that abandoned God's moral revelation had nothing to offer a lost culture.

The Left would like to believe that racism—not the breakdown of marriage and family, the absence of religious norms, a degraded popular culture, and other issues that all concern values—is the primary impediment to black progress in America. Therefore the Left declares racism the greatest impediment to black progress.

Morally judging cultures (except Christian, Israeli and American cultures) is forbidden by the left. Indeed not judging non-Western cultures is the very definition of 'multiculturalism'.

The Hebrew original does not say, 'Do not kill.' It says, 'Do not murder.' Both Hebrew and English have two words for taking a life — one is 'kill' (harag, in Hebrew) and the other is 'murder' (ratzach in Hebrew).