Quotes About Culture

The end result of a culture of pure consumption is a mountain of pure shit

Culture is fundamentally structure and we all know what happens to buildings when they don't have structural integrity

Time spent in the advertising business seems to create a permanent deformity like the Chinese habit of foot-binding.

while we were in inhabited country every Bedu for miles around would come to feed at our expense. It would be impossible to refuse them food: in the desert one may never turn a guest away, however unwanted he may be. T.E. Lawrence observed that 'the desert was held in a crazed communism by which Nature and the elements were for the free use of every known friendly person for his own purposes and no more.

The differentiations of the modern world have the same structure as tourist attractions: elements dislodged from their original natural, historical and cultural contexts fit together with other such displaced or modernized things and people. The differentiations are the attractions

It is not possible to translate a language that does not exist.

More people have sex in Chevrolets than during Star Trek recent findings suggest which I can't understand...

One is not born English without knowing how to converse easily about the weather.

I'm a woman. Guilt is our birthright.

I had long since discovered upon my travels that men are largely the same no matter where one encounters them. And if one is prepared to let them discourse on their pet topics of conversation, one can generally get on with things quite handily without any interference.

Americans and their guns," he muttered.

He was a Frenchman through and through, and I had always been susceptible to Gallic flourishes.

Egypt," Stoker pointed out acidly, "is not filthy. It was once the cradle of civilization. I would suggest you read a book, but I am not entirely certain of your ability to do so.

Scabbard?" I guessed. "Penis warmer," she told me.

In my experience, Americans were very friendly and very fond of their firearms.

Accents are funny in that they have this odd draw for us, yet we forget we have one, too. No one is without an accent, but the one you've got seems like oatmeal to their caviar.

Usually you just walk and walk among people who are not of your tribe, and then suddenly, there you are, in a place that feels familiar and known.

I'm staying out of this. It's the whole culture of all-consuming nowness I try to avoid. Ever present and screaming its message in the halls, on television, on everyone's personal web pages. Do me, I'm yours. I'm part of the counterculture who actually thinks about the future. Subversive activities are always best kept a secret so I keep my mouth shut.

For her, being Catholic isn't just about religion-it's about superstition and safekeeping and tradition.

Cultures should not be like water that dissolves them evenly, but like colours that stand out distinctly.

In its broad sense, civilization means not only comfort in daily necessities but also the refining of knowledge and the cultivation of virtue so as to elevate human life to a higher plane.

Instead of getting the leaders we deserve, we can an abundance of ShitRollsDownhill Shovelers, ShitCatchers, and NewShitCreators.

Most corporate infrastructures are massive time-wasters and demoralizing energy suckers.

Most companies are not respectful of each individual's time.