Quotes About Culture

'Tis well enough for a servant to be bred at an University. But the education is a little too pedantic for a gentleman.

Culture and education are the lethal weapons against all kinds of fundamentalism.

Education made us what we are.

America is becoming so educated that ignorance will be a novelty. I will belong to a select few.

The treatment of African and African American culture in our education was no different from their treatment in Tarzan movies.

Why do most Americans look up to education and down upon educated people?

When there is no such thing as religious culture and moral education, serious social problems such as drug addiction and racism fill the gap.

He was so learned that he could name a horse in nine languages; so ignorant that he bought a cow to ride on.

Liberal education reminds those members of a mass democracy who have ears to hear, of human greatness.

By its nature, the metropolis provides what otherwise could be given only by traveling; namely, the strange.

Culture is an instrument wielded by professors to manufacture professors, who when their turn comes will manufacture professors.

The way women today are treated in Saudi Arabia is a direct result of the education our children, boys and girls, receive at school.

The most general deficiency in our sort of culture and education is gradually dawning on me: no one learns, no one strives towards, no one teaches--enduring loneliness.

All art, all education, can be merely a supplement to nature.

The education, the cultural awareness, is different in Europe, especially in France, from that in the United States. So I think the public will be much more appreciative of many images.

There's only one thing that can kill the movies, and that's education.

Universities are the cathedrals of the modern age. They shouldn't have to justify their existence by utilitarian criteria.

So I went to English school, secondary English school, so forget going to Mecca for my religious education

For this reason, to study English literature without some general knowledge of the relation of the Bible to that literature would be to leave one's literary education very incomplete.

The relationship I have to everyday life is very European. We have a different relationship with religion, with faith, with nudity, with sex, with food.

Outwardly seeing how your music effects culture and everyday life, is amazing.

We're a very success-driven culture, which is such a downer at times. Even if you don't think that way, you're forced to think that way. Everyone is trying to subconsciously out-do everyone else.

I do speak my mind a lot more than when I was younger. I guess that's just my Polynesian background. That's how we are: just sit back and try and fit in, try and make everyone else happy.

In England, we're arrogant to everything else.