Quotes About Culture

Have a little sociological beano. As you said - in sociology one can do anything and call it work.

Arabic gives English technical terms such a nadir, azimuth, and zenith.

Islam has existed for 1,400 years, includes one-fifth of the world's population, and has ruled geographical areas that are more extensive than any other world empire.

Who we are cannot be separated from where we're from.

New York was heaven to me. And Harlem was Seventh Heaven.

How, unless you drink as I do, could you hope to understand the beauty of an old Indian woman playing dominoes with a chicken?

For as we stretch & strain to look through the various windows into the past, we do not merely see a bygone people hunting, fishing, painting their bodies, & dancing their dances. If we look long enough, if we dwell on their joy, fear, & reverence, we may in the end catch glimpses of almost forgotten aspects of our own selves.

What matters is this: Being fearless of failure arms you to break the rules. In doing so, you may change the culture and just possibly, for a moment, change life itself.

Sex is the mysticism of materialism and the only possible religion in a materialistic society.

Television was not intended to make human beings vacuous, but it is an emanation of their vacuity.

The orgasm has replaced the cross as the focus of longing and fulfillment.

I will lift up mine eyes unto the pills. Almost everyone takes them, from the humble aspirin to the multi-coloured, king-sized three deckers, which put you to sleep, wake you up, stimulate and soothe you all in one. It is an age of pills.

Travel, of course, narrows the mind.

I will lift mine eyes unto the pills. Almost everyone takes them, from the humble aspirin to the multi-coloured, king-sized three deckers, which put you to sleep, wake you up, stimulate and soothe you all in one. It is an age of pills.

Sex is the ersatz or substitute religion of the 20th Century.

The orgasm has replaced the Cross as the focus of longing and the image of fulfillment.

Some Rousseauean anthropologists protest that reports of cannibalism represent a racist desire to denigrate other cultures, but the scientific evidence suggests otherwise.

The more we appreciate from whence we came biologically, the better placed we will be to build up those cultural and environmental influences that help ameliorate the worst aspects of war.

Again and again, we see how cultures and religions frame women's sexuality as both powerful and dangerous, and as something that must be kept under control.

For history and biology also show that even if we are a violent species, in which males have an inborn predisposition to engage in team aggression, the specific conditions of our environment, culture, economic well-being, and demographic structure can have dramatic impacts on how our most fundamental impulses are expressed.

Being American is not a matter of birth. We must practice it every day, lest we become something else.

Sitting at the table doesn't make you a diner, unless you eat some of what's on that plate. Being here in America doesn't make you an American. Being born here in America doesn't make you an American.

Whether they are raised in indigenous or modern culture, there are two things that people crave: the full realization of their innate gifts, and to have these gifts approved, acknowledged, and confirmed. There are countless people in the West whose efforts are sadly wasted because they have no means of expressing their unique genius. In the psyches of such people there is an inner power and authority that fails to shine because the world around them is blind to it.

So one of the ways to maintain a certain sense of self is to remain somewhat linked to essential traditionalism.