Quotes About Culture

Every child matters. If we fail our children, we are bound to fail our present, our future, faith, cultures, and civilisations as well.

Sedentary culture is the goal of civilization. It means the end of its lifespan and brings about its corruption.

Piety is not a goal but a means to attain through the purest peace of mind the highest culture.

My goals in Holland were known as 'stiffies', which means something quite different in England of course.

Our goal is to publish African poets in as many ways as possible.

White people set goals, rappers 'chase paper', and the Chinese are too busy doing both to talk about either one.

For those whose goal it is to twist wrong into right, a good starting point is to convince young people that the vulgar is beautiful.

Your goal is to write that masterpiece. Yello's masterpiece was "Oh Yeah." Whatever I say about the song doesn't matter, because it has a huge impact on how we remember the era.

I saw Hamlet Prince of Denmark played; but now the old plays begin to disgust this refined age.

Always, however brutal an age may actually have been, its style transmits its music only.

Here Greek and Roman find themselves alive along these crowded shelves; and Shakespeare treads again his stage, and Chaucer paints anew his age.

In an age in which the media broadcast countless pieces of foolishness, the educated man is defined not by what he knows, but by what he doesn't know.

Every age, every culture, every custom and tradition has its own character, its own weakness and its own strength, its beauties and cruelties; it accepts certain sufferings as matters of course, puts up patiently with certain evils. Human life is reduced to real suffering, to hell, only when two ages, two cultures and religions overlap.

Popular culture is the new Babylon, into which so much art and intellect now flow. It is our imperial sex theater, supreme temple of the western eye. We live in the age of idols. The pagan past, never dead, flames again in our mystic hierarchies of stardom.

But probably every age gets, within certain limits, the science it deserves.

The Bible was written by barbarians in a barbarous, coarse and vulgar age.

We live in an age when unnecessary things are our only necessities.

There are now more TV's in British households than there are people - which is a bit of a worry.

Continental people have sex lives; the English have hot-water bottles.

Women need a reason to have sex, men just need a place.

It isn't premarital sex if you have no intention of getting married.

I thought coq au vin was love in a lorry.

I love gentiles. In fact, on of my favorite activities is Protestant spotting.

In Beverly Hills...they don't throw their garbage away. They make it into television shows.