Quotes About Culture

The origin of a modern party is anthropological: humans meet and share food to lower hostility between them and indicate friendship.

The art of friendship has been little cultivated in our society.

To the Ancients, Friendship seemed the happiest and most fully human of all loves... The modern world in comparison, ignores it.

My best friend was Aboriginal.

What others regard as retreat from them or rejection of them is not those things at all but instead a breeding ground for greater friendship, a culture for deeper involvement, eventually, with them.

Men's gender problems cause them a lot of suffering. There is a massive spiking suicide rate in middle age for men and a cultural attitude to male friendship that is destructive.

To stand in true relations with men in a false age is worth a fit of insanity, is it not?

He was a product of a culture where it was generally counterproductive to hold grudges.

A man becomes like those whose society he loves.

If exposure of body is modernism, then animals are more modern than humans.

The city is not a concrete jungle, it is a human zoo.

Political correctness is tyranny with manners.

Art once made a cult of beauty. Now we have a cult of ugliness instead. This has made art into an elaborate joke, one which by now has ceased to be funny.

Civilization begins with distillation

You put out a funny podcast, you talk about bak chor mee. I will say mee siam mai hum.

The trouble with this country is that there are too many people going about saying, "The trouble with this country is...."

Television: The word is half Greek, half Latin. No good can come of it.

Americans are incredibly inpatient. Someone once said that the shortest period of time in America is the time between when the light turns green and when you hear the first horn honk.

Every black American is bilingual. All of them. We speak street vernacular and we speak 'job interview.'

In America, you can always find a party. In Soviet Russia, The Party can always find you!

Rock and roll is catching on all over . . . France . . . England . . . They even have it in Japan, only over there they call it judo.

We've had cloning in the South for years. It's called cousins.

I couldn't settle in Italy - it was like living in a foreign country.

A German singer! I should as soon expect to get pleasure from the neighing of my horse.