Quotes About Culture

Do NOT complain about the tea. We know it tastes like someone's bathwater that has been PEED in. That's because it is.

There are only two types of people in Ireland... Those who watch The Late Late Show. And there are those who have been on The Late Late Show.

Antiquity and modernity are cut from the same cloth. That is to say, our sense of things being 'ancient' is produced—both historically and in practice—by the sense that we ourselves are 'modern'.

la de que las sociedades humanas podían disponerse según etapas de desarrollo, cada una con sus tecnologías y formas de organización características (cazadores-recolectores, agricultores, sociedad industrial urbana, etcétera).

The idea of civilization has always been linked to the desire for universal history; a history that transcends written records, extending back in time to the origins of our species, outwards in space to encompass the full range of contemporary human diversity, and—at least in its early formulations—onwards into some improved future condition.

When the Hawaiians appeared at Frontier Park, the audience and other cowboys paused to take them in: ornate leather chaps, long rawhide lariats, flowers around their hats, and dark skin—they were different in every way. To locals and tourists in Cheyenne, the paniolo were not just odd; they were interlopers.

He tried to imagine Dave walking around the streets of Tokyo. It was like picturing RoboCop in Middle Earth—

Alcohol was the reason we formed complex civilizations, and having to deal with the complexities of civilization is the reason most of us need alcohol.

MCWONGALD'S—SHIT LUNCH TURDWOMAN

He knew how much pride his people took him being forever misunderstood.

For the Arab, the past does not merely live. The past defines the present.

Funny how women are ashamed of their inner fairy whereas men are forever proudly displaying their inner cowboy or fireman

Much like the deaf community, we autistics are building an emergent culture. We individuals, with our cultures of one, are building a culture of many.

I was born to a Nigerian dad and a Kenyan mom, and coming to the States was really academic.

A movie grants a visa. A book makes you a citizen.

In a world that has done all it can to erase or obscure the civilizational memory of the West, remembering becomes a moral obligation, and a key to recovering our sanity.

The audience is now fully interactive, unfortunately the spectacle is a corpse

Jay-Z and Kanye West are to authentic rap culture what diseased rates were to 14th century Europeans

The generation that bought the most shoes and crippled the moral footing

Spectacular sporting events are bread & circuses. The Superbowl, for instance, is anything but "super". It is a Petri dish under the lens of mediaocrity, where surveillance of the spectators is just as mind numbing as the incomprehensible homo-erotic beefcake ballet being enacted on the pitch

Celebrity is now so common that its inherent absurdity has rendered it inoffensive

Unfettered political correctness is leading us into the singularity of stupidity

It is more acceptable to talk about the evils of cults than it is to talk about the evils of culture

The prophylactic for culturally transmitted diseases is free thinking