Quotes About Culture

The fact is that Americans are not a thoughtful people; they are too busy to stop and question their values.

The messy truth turns out to be that the innovative culture that blossomed in eighteenth-century Britain depended both on individuals looking out for their own interests, and on recognizing a national interest in innovation.

A bishop in Gaul could anoint a novitiate with oil from the olive orchards of Greece, bless the event with wine from the vineyards of Italy, and celebrate the sacrament with bread baked with the wheat of Africa while wearing a garment made by Syrian weavers from Chinese silk, all because of the ships.

The Renaissance, for which, the never to be forgotten Moors were responsible, both in the sciences and the arts, swept everything before it. France, nearest neighbor to the North, could not resist the Moorish revolutionary culture, to the potency of which the people of other European domains perforce succumbed.

The middle class child says a rock is a stone; a lower class child says a rock is hard, and you throw it.

The way to kill a man or a nation is to cut off his dreams, the way the whites are taking care of the Indians: killing their dreams, their magic, their familiar spirits.

I don't think that anyone outside Paris can understand love and murder as we do. But Emile loves Paris, and loving Paris is a murderous education. ("Anthropology: What Is Lost In Rotation")

Prior to the 1950's, very few people had ever heard of a good witch. The term was oxymoronic, like calling someone an evil saint.

Literature is a comprehensive essence of the intellectual life of a nation.

Report of fashions in proud Italy,Whose manners still our tardy apish nationLimps after in base imitation.

Black men are pearls in beauteous ladies' eyes.

For in the fatness of these pursy timesVirtue itself of vice must pardon beg.

I am more an antique Roman than a Dane.

The choice and master spirits of this age.

both of us were raised in lower-middle-class Orthodox Jewish immigrant families

The proper means of increasing the love we bear our native country is to reside some time in a foreign one.

Tradition is a guide and not a jailer.

a language is just a dialect with an army,

Once he gave her a Rothko book—an interesting choice, since like Elliott, Rothko also attended Lincoln High School in Portland (as had poet Gary Snyder and Simpsons creator Matt Groening). The

The NTSB operates with small, experienced teams, and each of its reports is approved by a senior board of five, creating a culture of accountability, collaboration, empowerment and pride. Among

The result is that in the Christian world in the West, we settle for a cultural version of Christianity that is far from the real thing.

Great God! I'd rather be a Pagan....

getting and spending, we lay waste our powers ~ but like lemmings running headlong to the sea, we are oblivious.

For a multitude of causes, unknown to former times, are now acting with a combined force to blunt the discriminating powers of the mind, and unfitting it for all voluntary exertion to reduce it to a state of almost savage torpor... To this tendency of life and manners the literature and theatrical exhibitions of the country have conformed themselves.