Quotes About Culture

It is the custom when praising a Russian writer to do so at the expense of all other Russian writers.

A national language is a national tie', Noah Webster

Like most rural girls, I had graduated from the Volkschule

The unspoken truth was that New Yorkers considered everyone in the world to be just a tad - well, more than just a tad, a lot more than a tad - old-fashioned compared with themselves.

People don't want to be titillated or frightened. They don't want to think.

Even though cultural changes cannot be measured on a day-to-day basis, changes that accrue over decades must be pursued daily.

The U.S. palate now understands spicy.

They have a saying among them: 'When whores are few, a boy will do.

It is a mistake to think that the national revolution is only political and economic. It is above all cultural. We stand in the first stormy phase of revolution.

The victory of Christianity over paganism was the greatest psychic revolution in the history of our culture. By destroying pagan animism, Christianity made it possible to exploit nature in a mood of indifference to the feelings of natural objects.

Did you hear about the Scottish drag queen? He wore pants.

Often he says that practicing Buddhism is unnecessary. Everyone can find the keys to a purposeful and moral life within their own culture and religious framework.

England of 1840 expected its young, affluent women to be literate and culturally astute, but it provided no real occupation for women with energy and vision. Fields of endeavor that were open to energetic, ambitious men—the military, finance, law, medicine, manufacture—were effectively closed to women.

In spite of the interventions of the black press, the antilynching movement, and U.S. popular culture, memories of the San Jose lynching, and the robust protest movement that followed, have disappeared. But this erasure is no anomaly: The desire to keep lynching a secret is a national pastime, and the impetus to forget is overwhelming.

Judaeo-Christian legacy informs the way that even most materialist sceptic thinks and behaves. Whether we like it or not, that legacy has built the history that spawned us, and shaped the attitudes that linger, often unpleasantly, in the dark recesses of our minds.

Germania of Tacitus

The poets of other countries learned from the troubadours many lessons in literary form; their refining influence upon manners was also widely felt and their attitude toward woman was generally adopted. Provençal literature

The poets of other countries learned from the troubadours many lessons in literary form; their refining influence upon manners was also widely felt and their attitude toward woman was generally adopted.

prose histories in the Castilian tongue began to appear.

For example, the resemblance between the word for "bride" and the verb meaning "to steal away" in Indo-Germanic languages is taken as evidence of marriage by capture in early times

Abbey of Cluny

the Christian art of secluded Ravenna.

Thierry had no idea why they were called French doors. His native countrymen weren't stupid enough to put them in their homes.

While Xers saw independence as strength, Millennials see collaboration as power. In fact, our research tells us Millennials decide if they're staying in a new culture based on whether or not they feel connected.