Quotes About Culture

Only, in Haiti, I realized, is it possible to drink rum and haggle with a god.

Governments grow as God declines, in both Europe and the United States

The Christians gave Him Sunday, the Jews gave Him Saturday, and the Muslims gave Him Friday. God has a three-day weekend.

If 18,000 gods have been invented then it is likely that god 18,001 is also invented.

Oh, sure. Of course, they say now that we've got Freud and the motorcar, God is dead." "He's not dead; just very tired.

My husband's family was terribly refined. Within their circle you could know Beethoven, but God forbid if you were Beethoven.

Sharia ... is, of course, invalid because it's God's Law, and God doesn't exist.

The savage prays to a stone that he calls a god, while the Christian prays to a god he calls a spirit, and the prayers of both are equally useful.

The overriding reason why we should take other people's cultures seriously is because God has taken ours seriously.

Our culture has long mistrusted the body. It's been seen as a confusing blend of God's handiwork and the devil's playground. It is, rather, a vortex of intelligence.

I remember vividly one distinct memory of arriving in Hong Kong and being the only blonde haired girl in this sea of international students, and thinking, 'Oh, my God. There's no hiding here.

I don't believe in God and all that. But I am Jewish, and very proud to be so, very proud of the culture.

An Ulster Scot may come to disbelieve in God, but not to wear his weekday clothes on the Sabbath.

Thank God for Jerry Springer's show. I thought only black folks were that screwed up until I watched Jerry Springer.

The bible is not a religious experience for me. This book bundles together the entire culture of Judaism: our language, our history, our geography. God is merely a byproduct of the bible.

My God, look at the words people use today. They use profanity like it's nothing. Christ almighty.

If my parents hadn't been made to do that from living in the Bible Belt, maybe it wouldn't be something that matters to me - maybe I wouldn't even know how to talk to God.

There are cultures that produce different kinds of attitudes, whether it's religion, fatalism, sense of fear, repression, the culture of God and the police minimizes confidence in people.

Have we come to the point where it is now considered a secular blasphemy to acknowledge the name of God at all?

The land of a god corresponds with the land of his worshipers.

God bless pop music and God bless MTV.

Elvis Presley? He's God.

Calling them devadasis we insult God Himself in the name of religion.

Whatever the rest of the world thinks of the English gentleman, the English lady regards him apprehensively as something between God and a goat and equally formidable on both scores.