Quotes About Culture

Food was a constant topic of conversation in our household.

a true Hawaiian doesn't eat until he is full, he eats until he is tired.

He calls the resulting phenomenon 'capitalist realism', defined as the widespread sense that not only is capitalism the only viable political and economic system, but also that it is now impossible even to imagine a coherent alternative to it … a pervasive atmosphere conditioning not only the production of culture but also the regulation of work and education, and acting as a kind of invisible barrier constraining action.11

Ideological conformity depends on conditions of prosperity; it has no staying-power of its own.

Once upon a time, women were the equals of men. Not only by law, although that was important, and the result of many hard-fought and difficult battles. But also by culture and by custom. Men came to accept that women should have the same rights of self-determination that they enjoyed. But then there was the Overturn, and the great crisis caused by sudden and catastrophic climate change.

In this Puritan sinkhole of a culture, we don't teach children the uses of pleasure, and so they decide we are fools and go their own way, blindly. If we learned to drive as badly as we learn to make love, the roads would be nothing but wrecks.

For whatever reason, people, including very well-educated people or people otherwise interested in reading, do not read poetry.

For some people [blues music] is infinitely glamorous, for others it is a symbol of the oppression of a racial minority.

I knew I had to transform Alcoa... But you can't order people to change. That's not how the brain works. So I decided I was going to start by focusing on one thing. If I could start disrupting the habits around one thing, it would spread throughout the entire company

Creole is New Orleans city food. Communities were created by the people who wanted to stay and not go back to Spain or France.

In '71 or '72 I returned to New Orleans and stayed there. I started cooking Louisiana food. Of all the things I had cooked, it was the best-and it was my heritage.

Cajun is country food by farmers and fisherman that arrived in Louisiana from Acadiana, Canada.

We believe that the health of a culture is measured in part by the vigor with which its immune system responds to nonsense.

The confidence of the postmodern cultural critic is the confidence of a generalizer who excuses himself from many of the usual obligations of erudition. Under this dispensation, a wide variety of disciplines may be addressed and pronounced upon without requiring a detailed familiarity with the facts and logic around which they are organized.

Cooking brought huge nutritional benefits," Wrangham writes. "But it also trapped women into a newly subservient role enforced by male-dominated culture … It is not a pretty picture.

In some cultures they don't name their babies right away. They wait until they see how the child develops. Like in Dances with Wolves. Unfortunately, our kids' names would be less romantic and poetic. "This is my oldest boy, Falls off His Tricycle, his friend, Dribbles His Juice, and my beautiful daughter, Allergic to Nuts."

When there is no place for Zen in the head of our generation, it is in grievous trouble.

There must have been a time, before Internet porn, when there wasn't a script. Nowadays, everybody knows exactly how sex is supposed to go.

The permutations of English corruption in India were endless

It is said that he spoke the language of the greased palm, and this language is international.

Robert Plant had cut his hair and was wearing parachute pants for God's sake. Nobody was impervious to what was going on—even the Who and the Stones were affected by

prostitutes streamed toward Westminster and, especially, the freewheeling adjacent area of Charing Cross.

The people of Hong Kong are criticized for only being interested in business, but it's the only thing they've been allowed to do.

My older sister was at the cusp of new wave, and I had older brothers from my father's first marriage who were rock 'n' roll guys, so I was exposed to a lot of popular culture.