Quotes About Culture

Any human organization whatsoever is always in danger of being hijacked by the sociopaths, because the sociopaths are always with us; the organization will always have a tipping-point where the toxic people start to outnumber or outmaneuver the nontoxic

If Irish or Italian culture dies in America it really isn't that big a deal. They will still exist in Italy and Ireland. Not so with us. There is no other place. North America is our old country.

She remembered the old man in the bar in the Mission District telling her, 'We are the biggest tribe of all, us displaced ones, us urban Indians, us sidewalk redskins.

Then again, could bed-hopping gods be any worse than the violent cartoons on TV today?

In the history of art there are periods when bread seems so beautiful that it nearly gets into museums.

there is very little 'of course' when it comes to custom

By the time the arachne caught up with them in Kejesli's quarters, Maggy found layli-layli calulan in the midst of an elaborate lie. Like Maggy, layli-layli took advantage of Kejesli's lack of knowledge of her culture, a lack Maggy did not share. Nothing new in technique, Maggy noted, but she recorded it for her growing file on lying, for its style and for its purpose, which she hoped might become clear.

In the common perception, there is something unseemly about young people getting rich. Getting rich is supposed to be the reward for hard work, preferably arriving when you are too old to enjoy it. And the spectacle of young millionaires who made their bundle not from business or crime but from avant-garde art is particularly offensive. The avant-garde is supposed to be the conscience of the culture, not its id.

Jews have had to carry around their own sense of self in a carpet bag and I think perhaps too much emphasis might be being put on nationality and on the other hand patriotism, that sort of thing.

I don't care what you Yanks say, cheese should not whiz.

They whisper: no little man from Customs and Immigration stands at the doors of memory or imagination demanding to see your passport. No arts bureaucrat or ComLit satrap can stamp OzLit, CanLit, FemLit, MigrantLit, or Displaced Person on your visa.

People identify with me - everyone does - African American women, Caucasian women, they all identify with me because I'm ethnic.

Though you may leave Paris, Paris never really leaves you.

Even the ones you don't like, you like better in Paris.

What does it mean when individuals can no longer be embarrassed or shamed?

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To reform the world - means to reform upbringing...

If man has no tea in him, he is incapable of understanding truth and beauty.

Beat your wife on the wedding day, and your married life will be happy

All human societies contain inventive people. It's just that some environments provide more starting materials, and more favorable conditions for utilizing inventions, than do other environments.

If immigration and diversity bring cultural enrichment, why do whites move out of those very parts of the country that are being "enriched"?

Although immigration is likely to reduce whites to a minority in just a few decades, racial etiquette requires that whites must not think of this as anything but an exciting prospect.

This book is about racial identity, something most people who are not white take for granted. They come to it early, feel it strongly, and make no apologies for it.

Whites impose these rules on themselves because they know blacks, in particular, are so quick to take offense.