Quotes About Culture

The moment you give up your principles, and your values, you are dead, your culture is dead, your civilization is dead. Period.

Che senso ha rispettare chi non rispetta noi? Che senso ha difendere la loro cultura o presunta cultura quando essi disprezzano la nostra?

quell'Italia, l'Italia povera che ne consegue. Povera nell'onore, nell'orgoglio, nella conoscenza, e perfino nella grammatica.

In fondo, per certa gente, la vera colpa di un uomo e di una donna consiste nell'amarsi in un letto

Instead of learned young people we have donkeys with University degrees. Instead of future leaders we have mollusks with expensive blue jeans and phony revolutionaries with ski masks. And do you know what? Maybe this is another reason why our Moslem invaders have such an easy game.

I know ours is a world made by men for men, their dictatorship is so ancient it even extends to language.

There is no investment you can make which will pay you so well as the effort to scatter sunshine and good cheer through your establishment.

You cannot expect your team to rise above your example.

Modern society drinks in streams of information while dying of wisdom thirst.

Even in cultures where marriages are arranged by parents, you're never actually forbidden to fall in love with your mate.

The ideal American type is perfectly expressed by the Protestant, individualist, anti-conformist, and this is the type that is in the process of disappearing. In reality there are few left.

Properly speaking, there are no barbarian standards. Barbarism is the absence of standards to which appeal can be made. The varying degrees of culture are measured by the greater or less precision of the standards. Where there is little such precision, these standards rule existence only grosso modo; where there is much they penetrate in detail into the exercise of all the activities.

La lengua, que es siempre y últimamente la lengua materna, no se aprende en Gramáticas y diccionarios, sino en el decir de la Gente

I think the greatest difference between China and the West, which can never be made up, is that the Chinese are fond of antiquity, but neglect the present [whereas] Westerners are struggling in the present in order to supersede the past.

Creative persuasion is a matter of being biblical, not of being either modern or postmodern.

Yale philosopher Harry Frankfurt writes, "One of the salient features of our culture is that there is so much bullshit. Everyone knows this. Each of us contributes his share. But we tend to take the situation for granted.

the modern world has scrambled things so badly that today we worship our work, we work at our play, and we play at our worship.

We must also and always be discerning about the spirit of the age in any generation, which today means squarely facing the seductions of technique.

Behind every civilization lies a vision and a worldview, and none is greater or more lasting than the strength of its vision.

As followers of Jesus, we must not duck the enormity of a simple but shattering fact: with relatively few exceptions, such as some branches of Buddhism, almost all the most militantly secularist societies in history have been the product of Christian societies. The church is a leading spawning ground for atheists.

When cultures reject God, they cut themselves off from the ultimate ground of reality

Something has surely gone terribly wrong when Christians are the best atheist arguments against the Christian faith and Christendom their best argument for atheism.

With the ability to produce more goods than people need, consumer capitalism has to make children into consumers earlier and keep them at it longer. Hence contemporary America, a culture of perennial adolescents.

The West is cutting off its Jewish and Christian roots and destroying the entire root system of its culture