Quotes About Culture

English is taking over the world. I just wrote a piece about it. And it's not by design. The United States dominates because it's the biggest market.

Culture's essential service to a religion is to destroy intellectual idolatry, the recurrent tendency in religion to replace the object of its worship with its present understanding and forms of approach to that object.

Popular art is normally decried as vulgar by the cultivated people of its time; then it loses favor with its original audience as a new generation grows up; then it begins to merge into the softer lighting of quaint, and cultivated people become interested in it, and finally it begins to take on the archaic dignity of the primitive.

A public that tries to do without criticism, and asserts that it knows what it wants or likes, brutalizes the arts and loses its cultural memory.

We then discover that we have no word, corresponding to "poem" in poetry or "play" in drama, to describe a work of literary art. It is all very well for Blake to say that to generalize is to be an idiot, but when we find ourselves in the cultural situation of savages who have words for ash and willow and no word for tree, we wonder if there is not such a thing as being too deficient in the capacity to generalize.

Imagine a part of the U.S.A., from which the U.S.A. started - where is the cradle of your history? This is Kosovo for Serbia.

Ayn? masallar? dinlemelerine ra?men ötekiler hiç böyle bir ?ey ya?amad?lar.

i'm a poet who writes in english come to share the worlds witchu

Maybe Jane was right. Maybe he was wrong to have filled her head with tales of Bessie Smith and Josephine Baker, let alone take her to see Jackie Wilson, Etta James, Tina Turner and the Ikettes. Maybe it wasn't right to wake up to Chico Hamilton, Lee Morgan, Charlie Parker, and Art Blakey in the morning. Watch the sunset with Miles Davis, Cecil Taylor, and Little Willie John. But Greer didn't know what else to offer that was beautiful and colored and alive, all at the same time.

Jane didn't miss white folks, she didn't like white folks, she tried not to think about them. She kept her world as colored as she could. There was enough of it. From Langston Hughes to Sojourner Truth, her children's worlds were hardly deprived

Sean had been one of a group of people who wanted to rescue the Irish language from being a grim thing taught in schools and to reaffirm it in every area of life-in comedy, sex, cursing, drinking, everything. These men started the Brian Merriman School so that, for one week a year, anyone who wanted to could go to Clare to learn and talk and listen and sing and dance, in Irish or English, but anyway in the old Gaelic spirit.

los saberes humanísticos, la cultura y la enseñanza constituyen el líquido amniótico ideal en el que las ideas de democracia, libertad, justicia, laicidad, igualdad, derecho a la crítica, tolerancia, solidaridad, bien común, pueden experimentar un vigoroso desarrollo.

Não nos damos conta, de fato, de que a literatura e os saberes humanísticos, a cultura e a educação constituem o líquido amniótico ideal no qual podem se desenvolver vigorosamente as ideias de democracia, liberdade, justiça, laicidade, igualdade, direito à crítica, tolerância, solidariedade e bem comum.

La primera tarea de un buen profesor debería ser reconducir la escuela y la universidad a su función esencial: no la de producir hornadas de diplomados y graduados, sino la de formar ciudadanos libres, cultos, capaces de razonar de manera crítica y autónoma.

I have tried my best to keep my country alive by writing about it.

It couldn't have happened anywhere but in little old New York.

Bagdad-on-the-Subway.

All of us have to be prevaricators, hypocrites, and liars every day of our lives; otherwise the social structure would fall into pieces the first day. We must act in one another's presence just as we must wear clothes. It is for the best

It couldn't have happened anywhere but in little old New York.

Greenwich Village... the village of low rents and high arts.

Sen yan?lm??s?n babac???m. Beni de yan?ltt?n. Sessiz faziletlerin heykeli dikilmiyor. Daha ba?ka ölçüler var; daha do?rusu her zaman varm?? da biz bilmiyormu?uz Özellikle ülkemizde durum böyle.

Kültür, sadece baz? isimleri hat?rlamaktan ibaret de?ildir, deniliyordu. Kültür, bu isimleri yerli yerinde ve ba?ka isimlerle münasebetini bilerek kullanmak demekti. Kelimeler, kelimeler…

Cranium fibula radius Sacrum patella carpus Nas?l ezberlenir Allah'?m Arapça dua eden insan?nn Latince kemikleri?

Beni kötü yeti?tirdiler dostum! Güzeli ifade gücünden yoksun b?rakt?lar beni.