Quotes About Culture

Roman political culture's extraordinary openness and willingness to incorporate outsiders, which set it apart from every other ancient Western society that we know.

a reminder that the body beautiful was not so very far from the body brutalised.

Nonetheless, whatever mystery surrounds them, the Olmec have left us a powerful in-your-face reminder that across the world, when people first made art they made it about themselves. From the very beginning art has been about us.

Edgy in a different way was the idea of the asylum, and the welcome, that Romulus gave to all comers – foreigners, criminals and runaways – in finding citizens for his new town. There were positive aspects to this. In particular, it reflected Roman political culture's extraordinary openness and willingness to incorporate outsiders, which set it apart from every other ancient Western society that we know.

cultural anxieties are often a privilege of the rich.

He sums this up in a pithy sentence: 'They called it, in their ignorance, "civilisation", but it was really part of their enslavement' ('Humanitas vocabatur, cum pars servitutis esset').

To ignore the Romans is not just to turn a blind eye to the distant past. Rome still helps to define the way we understand our world and think about ourselves, from high theory to low comedy. After 2,000 years, it continues to underpin Western culture and politics, what we write and how we see the world, and our place in it. The

They called it, in their ignorance, "civilisation", but it was really part of their enslavement

Greece, once conquered, conquered her savage victor and brought culture into the rough land of Latium' (better in Latin: 'Graecia capta ferum victorem cepit et artes intulit agresti Latio').

London Review of Books, the New York Review of Books or the Times Literary Supplement

Graecia capta ferum uictorem cepit. 'Fierce Rome', that is, 'had been captured by captive Greece.

Denn bei historischer Forschung geht es doch gerade darum, Fremdartigkeit zu erhalten.

One of the purposes of 'culture', after all, is to make seem 'natural' claims that are not naturally at all; the flimsier the argument, the more noisily it is supported.

these white people have lost their own gods and mislaid their souls. They have trouble dealing with reality, with death.

Allowing liquor on the res, close to where you lived, was supposed to prevent injuries and deaths caused by drunken driving.

Mount Rushmore, which old John Fire always called the "Giant Tourist Curio Ashtray.

But of Paris it can be said that the right bank of the Seine belongs to the world, and the left bank to France.

It never ceased to amaze Lacey how ignorant people were about deafness. Forget understanding Deaf Culture. Forget hearing people respecting them as a linguistic community with a shared history, language, and pride. That was way beyond most hearing people's understanding. Their perspective was that of pity, impairment, and fixing. Lacey was proud to be a Deaf woman, wouldn't want to become hearing for anything in the world.

American Sign Language was her language, her birthright, not some subpar substitute for English.

Robert pointed at Lacey and then made the sign for "hearing," but instead of making it at his mouth, he made it at his forehead. It was a sign given to Deaf people who acted like hearing people. It wasn't a compliment.

My sisters and I were fortunate to travel through Asia and Europe at very young ages. We confronted extraordinary beauty in Athens and unspeakable poverty in India.

What's the difference between the music of my generation and today s. Our songs were about Love and Romance, today's music is chiefly about sex; which I might add gets a little boring.

The societies of the futures, always searching for salves, will be so greedy to have this capital which is the man, that they will find all sorts of dirty ways to religiously or culturally brutify him and even severely punishing him if he would chose suicide or the ideology that shows the true path of salvation of the mankind through itself. Precisely because they will understand that the Man is the World and the World is the Man!

DISCLAIMER: A society where such disclaimers are needed is saddening.