Quotes About Culture

Sex is the theory; porn is the practice.

The triumph of persuasion over force is the sign of a civilized society.

I believe Western culture -- rule of law, universal suffrage, etc. -- is preferable to Arab culture: that's why there are millions of Muslims in Scandinavia, and four Scandinavians in Syria. Follow the traffic. I support immigration, but with assimilation.

Her Majesty's government is engaging not merely in Orwellian Newspeak but in self-defeating Orwellian Newspeak. The broader message it sends is that ours is a weak culture so unconfident and insecure that if you bomb us and kill us our first urge is to find a way to flatter and apologize to you.

A big chunk of Western civilization, consciously or otherwise, has given the impression that it's dying to surrender to somebody, anybody. Reasonably enough, Islam figures: Hey, why not us?

The past is another country, but the Seventies is another planet.

And yet, in a culture like ours, which is given to material comforts, and addicted to forms of entertainment that offer immediate gratification, it is surprising that so much poetry is written.

I certainly can't speak for all cultures or all societies, but it's clear that in America, poetry serves a very marginal purpose. It's not part of the cultural mainstream.

It made Daniel think. The people who had the least were the most willing to share. He outlined a dictum that he would believe the rest of his life: the more people have, the less the give. Similarly, generous cultures produce less waste because excess is shared, whereas stingy nations fill their landfills with leftovers.

He lambasted warmongering conservatives "going to bible study 3 times a week . . . blessing the bombs we drop on women and children . . . and cursing the godlessness of this culture.

men arguing over nothing but the sheer Italian love of verbal battle and mock outrage.

Vengeance," Pino said calmly, feeling weirdly out of his body. "Italians believe in it, mon général. Italians believe bloodshed is good for the wounded soul.

Civilization is a limitless multiplication of unnecessary necessities.

There are no people who are quite so vulgar as the over-refined.

There is no architecture in New Orleans, except in the cemeteries.

You tell me whar a man gits his corn pone, en I'll tell you what his 'pinions is.

They spell it Vinci and pronounce it Vinchy; foreigners always spell better than they pronounce.

There are many humorous things in the world; among them, the white man's notion that he is less savage than the other savages.

An American has not seen the United States until he has seen Mardi-Gras in New Orleans.

An Englishman is a person who does things because they have been done before. An American is a person who does things because they haven't been done before.

So far as I am able to judge, nothing has been left undone, either by man or nature, to make India the most extraordinary country that the sun visits on his rounds. Nothing seems to have been forgotten, nothing overlooked.

Travel is lethal to prejudice.

Classic? - a book which people praise and don't read.

We've got the most prosperous culture in human history and we've also got the biggest spiritual hole in human history.