Quotes About Culture

The people of Crete unfortunately make more history than they can consume locally.

In world history, those who have helped to build the same culture are not necessarily of one race, and those of the same race have not all participated in one culture.

We get our ethics from our history and judge our history by our ethics.

Harlem is filled with moments of history.

New Orleans is one of the most exciting, incredible communities in the world. There's such a rich culture and history, and there are innumerable things to do.

I'm a Larry David fan, right? And it seems to me that Jewish history from the Talmud on has been a self-deprecating, self-critical kind of humor.

America creates myths by focusing a lot of energy on its history and using it - - not always, but sometimes - for constructive purposes.

Anger does not make history. Power does. And power may be supplemented by anger, but it derives from more fundamental realities; geography, demographics, technology, and culture.

History studies not just facts and institutions, its real subject is the human spirit.

We've gone through the names—Negro, African American, African, Black. For me that's an indication of a people still trying to find their identity. Who determines what is black?

The task of the historian is to understand the peoples of the past better than they understand themselves.

The slave trade was globalism. Why people insist that globalism, after its hideous history, is a good thing, I do not know.

We have our own history, our own language, our own culture. But our destiny is also tied up with the destinies of other people - history has made us all South Africans.

. . . the Christian Mind has succumbed to the secular drift with a degree of weakness unmatched in Christian History.

History without politics descends to mere Literature.

During the Sixties, the Americans thought I was the greatest thing in the history of cinema.

A name is precious; it carries inside it a language, a history, a set of traditions, a particular way of looking at the world. Losing it meant losing my ties to all those things too.

What North Europe thinks of as its history is actually quite provincial and of limited interest. Different sorts of Christian killing each other, and that's about it.

I actually got really interested in traveling to India after studying yoga. I have this wanderlust and don't like doing things without knowing about the history.

Art needs to be socialised, and you need a lot of context to understand that, and that doesn't mean having read a few art history books.

To study history is to study literature.

In America journalism is apt to be regarded as an extension of history: in Britain, as an extension of conversation.

When I arrived at Columbia, I gave up acting and became interested in all things French. French poetry, French history, French literature.

Hip-hop's always reached out to kids. If you look at the last 10 big albums it might seem ironic. But when I look at the history of this music it's always had a lot of positivity.