Quotes About Culture

Berlín. Yo adoraba esta vieja ciudad. Pero eso fue antes de que se mirara en su propio reflejo y le diera por llevar unos corsés tan ajustados que apenas podía respirar. Yo adoraba las filosofías fáciles y despreocupadas, el jazz barato, los cabarés vulgares y todos los demás excesos culturales que caracterizaron los años del Weimar y que hicieron de Berlín una de las ciudades más apasionantes del mundo.

Me and Schopenhauer. Sometimes being German seems to come with some serious disadvantages.

My mother was a very Viennese type of Austrian, Bernie. We're always committing suicide, you know. Its a way of life for us.

It's the very absurdity of the British which makes them so impossible to radicalize. And why we should envy them.

Sexual intercourse beganIn nineteen sixty-three(Which was rather late for me)—Between the end of the Chatterley banAnd the Beatles' first LP.

Sexual intercourse began in nineteen sixty-three (Which was rather late for me) between the end of the Chatterley ban and the Beatles' first LP.

The sight of the money depressed her, because in such small familiar things the foreign country around her was best expressed.

Children's books can break [the] silence. Reading the un-bowdlerized classics of children's literature can help young people understand that racism is not anomalous. It is embedded in the culture, and defended by cultural gatekeepers.

Paul said it would be better for them to express their views back in Britain, because "there, people listen a bit more. In America, they hold everything against you.

In Wales, only about one in five inhabitants can speak Welsh (down from one in

and change within the British polity, I will stress the significance of the political culture. Before we proceed to an analysi

are favorable to the political system; apathetic or detached when feelings and evaluations are neutral; and alienated when such feelings and evaluations are unfavorable.21 Italy and France have been cited as examples of political cultures that generate alienation and a large measure of

values. To know the media through which values and beliefs that coalesce to form the political culture are transmitte

He cut through the Twenty-First Century gallery, past the big plastic statues of Pluto and Mickey, animal-headed gods of lost America.

Ni ska bli en del av historien, eftersom historia är allt ni bryr er om.

he cut through the 21st Century Gallery, past the big plastic statues of Pluto and Mickey, animal headed gods of lost America

Culture and sacred order are inseparable... No culture has ever preserved itself where there is not a registration of sacred order.

The radio was playing "Easter Parade" and I thought, But this is Jewish genius on a par with the Ten Commandments. God gave Moses the Ten Commandments and then He gave to Irving Berlin "Easter Parade" and "White Christmas."… Easter he turns into a fashion show and Christmas into a holiday about snow.

Here where the literary culture is held hostage, the art of narration flourishes by mouth. In Prague, stories aren't simply stories; it's what they have instead of life.

A Jew without Jews, without Judaism, without Zionism, without Jewishness, without a temple or an army or even a pistol, a Jew clearly without a home, just the object itself, like a glass or an apple.

People aren't going to throw the kind of money at certain people that they used to.

We drank our coffee the Russian way. That is to say we had vodka before it and vodka afterwards.

Malcolm Muggeridge captured this parting of the ways in a gloomy piece for Encounter: 'Each time I return to England from abroad,' he observed, 'the country seems a little more run-down than when I went away; its streets a little shabbier, its railway carriages and restaurants a little dingier; the editorial pretensions of its newspapers a little emptier, and the vainglorious rhetoric of its politicians a little more fatuous.'29

At bottom, it is the sound of the divine spark within us all. Like the cry of a child or the howl of a wolf, it transcends language and culture.