Quotes About Culture

You want to know what Classics are? said a drunk Dean of Admissions to me at a faculty party a couple of years ago. I'll tell you what Classics are. Wars and homos.

What do you think about America? Everyone always smiles so big! Well—most people. Maybe not so much you. I think it looks stupid.

In very great poetry the music often comes through even when one doesn't know the language. I loved Dante passionately before I knew a word of Italian.

Why didn't vandals ever quote Shakespeare? I'd love to see graffiti in iambic pentameter.

Hate is ignorant. Bigotry is ignorant. So is pride when it is based on things you had no control over. I won't take responsibility, or blame, for things that I did not do. I am not bound or obligated to live a certain way because of the circumstances of my birth. Culture, tradition, and religion are like language, borders, and infrastructure. They predate me. My ancestors don't dictate my actions because I didn't have any say in what they did.

It is another of consumerism's ironies that, although it functions like a mental trap, we often think of it as an escape.

valorization of busyness.

If literature is humanity at its absolute best, striving after the hard truths, straining to shed the egos that cripple nonliterary relationships, then books, the actual objects of books, are the physical expressions of the struggle to craft a better humanity. Entering the culture of books, even the culture of a single book--and every book is the culture of its audience--makes the world feel a little better, a little more true and welcoming.

The Greek word for "rooster" is built from combined parts that mean "getter out of bed".

when you know how a nation deals with the Bible you may generally know what a nation is.

Already enough is known to show that the whole concept of the superiority of Western Christian civilization is one based on an arrogant ignorance of the rest of the world.

I would call celebrity worship a new form of religious culture, fans may not even know the fallen celebrit[ies], yet they draw quite a bit of meaning from them." - Gary Laderman, a professor of religion at Emory University

Illusory universality is the universality of the art of the culture industry, it is the universality of the homogeneous same, an art which no longer even promises happiness but only provides easy amusement as relief from labour.

Where civilization entailed the corruption of barbarian virtues and the creation of dependent people, I decided, I was opposed to civilization.

1. In our scientifically oriented culture, traditional understandings of morality and related notions are considered passé.

3. Secular ideas have replaced the traditional view.

The role of intellectual development is primary in evangelical Christianity, but you might not know that from a cursory look at the church today.

There is no nonempirical knowledge, especially no theological or ethical knowledge. Science and science alone carries authority in culture because the alleged possession of knowledge gives people authority, and science and science alone is perceived to have knowledge. Outside science — especially in theological, ethical, or political discussions — the makeup man is more important than the speech-writer (feeling and image are more important than reason, knowledge, and truth).

As disciples of Jesus Christ, we must ask how we can become the kind of people we need to be to bring honor to Christ, to help turn the culture toward Him, and to be lights in the midst of darkness for our families, friends, churches, and communities.

English professor Carolyn Kane wrote an article in Newsweek about the loss of thinking in American culture generally. After putting her finger squarely on the problem, Kane identified her solution in front of both God and the Newsweek readership: "But how can we revive interest in the art of thinking? The best place to start would be in homes and churches of our land.

This can only be done by making these cultural assumptions explicit, by exposing them for the intellectual frauds they actually are, and by being vigilant in keeping them before one's mind and spotting their presence in the ordinary reception of input each day from newspapers, magazines, office conversation, television, movies and so on.

For some time, theological liberals have understood that whoever controls the thinking leadership of the church in a culture will eventually control the church itself.

Beber en casa era de alcohólicos. Siempre que uno bebiera públicamente, sin ocultarse, no era un borracho. Y de ahí los bares. Muchos, muchos bares.

Varb?t t?p?c j?s esat tik liela auguma, ka dzerat t?ju ar pienu. M?s ??n? nedr?kstam dzert t?ju ar pienu; ja m?s izaugtu tik lieli, mums vairs neb?tu vietas un b?tu j?izce?o.