Quotes About Culture

A striking symptom of the church's problems in the West today is the fact that in a country such as the United States, Christians are still the overwhelming majority of citizens, but the American way of life has moved far from the way of life of Jesus—which means simply that the Christians who are the majority are living a way of life closer to the world than to the way of Jesus. In a word, they are worldly and therefore incapable of shaping their culture.

You can judge a culture by what it talks about and what it refuses to talk about, and talk of "spiritual warfare" would be a useful litmus test today.

Whether or not the Christian faith is true is now irrelevant. All that matters is that to more and more people in the modern world it no longer seems true.

One overall conclusion is plain: under the weight of the combined impact of exploding pluralism, the expansion of the state, and emerging separationism, the early American settlement, so brilliantly described by Tocqueville, is gone, and gone for good.

There is no problem with the wider culture that you cannot see in the spades in the Christian Church. The rot is in us, and not simple out there. And Christians are making a great mistake by turning everything into culture wars. It's a much deeper crisis.

What did he mean by "society"? The plural of human beings?

Virtue and vice are concepts invented by human beings, words for a morality which human beings arbitrarily devised.

Apparently when someone stays in a civilized kingdom too long, even his skin becomes delicate.

Comics are an international language, they can cross boundaries and generations. Comics are a bridge between all cultures.

African culture inspired African American culture, however African American culture inspires world culture!

Oscar Hijuelos

Collecting antiquities is to archeology as rape is to love.

It is through… Art and Art only that we can shield ourselves from the sordid perils of actual existence.

With an evening coat and a white tie, anybody, even a stockbroker, can gain a reputation for being civilized

One should not be too severe on English novels; they are the only relaxation of the intellectually unemployed.

If one could only teach the English how to talk, and the Irish how to listen, society here would be quite civilized.

When good Americans die they go to Paris.

Mrs. Allonby: They say, Lady Hunstanton, that when good Americans die they go to Paris.Lady Hunstanton: Indeed? And when bad Americans die, where do they go to?Lord Illingworth: Oh, they go to America.

Religion is a fashionable substitute for Belief.

The youth of America is their oldest tradition. It has been going on now for three hundred years.

Thinking is the most unhealthy thing in the world, and people die of it just as they die of any other disease. Fortunately, in England at any rate, thought is not catching.

The fact is, that civilization requires slaves. The Greeks were quite right there. Unless there are slaves to do the ugly, horrible, uninteresting work, culture, and contemplation become almost impossible. Human slavery is wrong, insecure, and demoralizing. On mechanical slavery, on the slavery of the machine, the future of the world depends.

The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.

Never be afraid when God brings back the past. Let memory have its way. It is a minister of God with its rebuke and chastisement and sorrow. God will turn the "might have been" into a wonderful culture for the future.