Quotes About Culture

Soon, a national and international feminist movement was challenging the idea that what happened to men was political but what happened to women was cultural; that the first could be changed but the second could not. - Gloria Steinem

It was true in the early 1960s, more women smoked than men.

It's not a case of 'look at me in my car' it's more, 'look at the car'. I like the idea of other people enjoying them, because everything has become a bit faceless and nobody likes the motor car any more.

You are a republic of voices tonight. Unfortunately, that republic is Italy.

Instead of pressuring the Japanese into lowering trade barriers or taking a greater share of the responsibility for their own defense, we should be urging them to bring their verbs from the ends of their sentences into second place, right after their subjects, where they belong.

I did work at a mall in college - I think retail/customer service is just one of the most hideous jobs in the world. So I always try to be extra nice when I go into a store. But malls are part of our culture, if you watched any teen comedy in the '80s. it's clear that malls are where we live!

Everything ends this way in France. Weddings, christenings, duels, burials, swindlings, affairs of state -- everything is a pretext for a good dinner.

Tell me what you eat, I'll tell you who you are.

Tell me what you eat and I will tell you who you are.

All languages had their birth, their apogee and decline.

La destinée des nations dépend de la manière dont elles se nourrissent.

Tell me what you eat, and I shall tell you what you are.

Tell me what you eat and I will tell you what you are.

One may dream of a culture where everyone bursts into laughter when someone says: this is true, this is real.

There are cultures that can only picture their origins and not their ends.

Deep down, the US, with its space, its technological refinement, its bluff good conscience, even in those spaces which it opens up for simulation, is the only remaining primitive society.

The local is a shabby thing. There's nothing worse than bringing us back down to our own little corner, our own territory, the radiant promiscuity of the face to face. A culture which has taken the risk of the universal, must perish by the universal.

We live in a world where there is more and more information, and less and less meaning.

Americans may have no identity, but they do have wonderful teeth.

All societies end up wearing masks.

MARRIAGE IS A UNIVERSAL HUMAN INSTITUTION. Virtually every known human society has some form of marriage. 1 While the norms of marriage in different cultures vary considerably, marriage always has something to do with creating a public (not private) sexual union between a man and woman so that socially valued children have both a mother and a father, and so that society has the next generation it needs.

Amar los toros es, cada tarde, eso de las cinco, creer en los Reyes Magos e ir a su encuentro

You have to look at history as an evolution of society.

Maybe the Europeans once thought the earth was flat, but the Eskimos always knew it was round. One only needed to look at the earth's relatives, the sun and the moon, to know that.