Quotes About Culture

For a while in the twenties and thirties, art was talked about as a substitute for religion; now B movies are a substitute for religion.

He who has art and science also has religion, but those who do not have them better have religion.

Our critique of Israel has to be about the state, not culture or religion, but the state of Israel

Do anything in this world but monkey with somebody eles's religion. What reasoning of conceit makes anyone think theirs is right?

Religion supports and perpetuates the social organization it reflects.

It is commonly said and known that each civilization has its own religion. Now my claim is that if we look deeper, the different civilizations were brought into being by the different revelations.

The core of common culture is religion. Tribes survive and flourish because they have gods, who fuse many wills into a single will, and demand and reward the sacrifices on which social life depends.

Religions are the great fairy tales of conscience.

That peculiarly American religion, President-worship.

Where there is no religion, hypocrisy becomes good taste.

Each nation has a main current in life; in India it is religion. Make it strong and the waters on either side must move along with it.

Religion is civilization, the highest.

I always tell my Western friends that it is best to keep your own tradition. Changing religion is not easy and sometimes causes confusion. You must value your tradition and honor your own religion.

But the French writers always had more originality and independence than others, and that regulator, which elsewhere was religion, long since ceased to exist for them.

Scratch the Christian and you find the pagan - spoiled.

The fatal trait of the times is the divorce between religion and morality.

Religion is a feature of cultural evolution that, among other things, addresses anxieties created by cultural evolution; it helps keep social change safe from itself.

No doubt soaring cathedrals, stirring music, moving stories and parables, help a bit. But by far the most important variable determining your religion is the accident of birth.

The taming and domestication of religion is one of the unceasing chores of civilization.

All people have religions. It's like we have religion receptors built into our brain cells, or something, and we'll latch onto anything that'll fill that niche for us.

The dissolution of the nation destroys the national religion, and dethrones the national deity.

Religion is the fashionable substitute for belief.

Primitive societies without religion have never been found.

I would like to say that I am not an apostle of the Muslim religion.