Quotes About Culture

...it is a telling fact that, the world over, the vast majority of children follow the religion of their parents rather than any of the other available religions.

It is very important that football can see beyond religion but FIFA does not just ignore its impact.

To the mass of mankind religion of some kind is a necessity

Sharia is derived from Arabic, and it means an "oasis." In the desert, man needs the oasis to survive. Sharia is not like any other religion or law, because Sharia is an entire system of life.

I have said that Texas is a state of mind, but I think it is more than that. It is a mystique closely approximating a religion.

Too many younger artists, critics, and curators are fetishizing the sixties, transforming the period into a deformed cult, a fantasy religion, a hip brand, and a crippling disease.

Religion is one dimension of culture, a transcendent element of it.

First the priests arrive. Then the conquistadores.

Greed has replaced religion as the national religion, and with greed comes envy.

The English think that incompetence is the same thing as sincerity.

In the East, all the religions preach egolessness. So in the East, everybody is against the ego from the very beginning.

The true religion of America has always been America.

To attempt to be religious without practicing a specific religion is as possible as attempting to speak without a specific language.

I don't know how many serious Christians exist here in America, but the Japanese, the younger generation is leaving the Buddhist religion mentality behind.

In some Arab art exhibitions that have happened, there's always this idea that the East is more traditional; they show a lot of works on calligraphy and religion.

What religion a man shall have is a historical accident, quite as much as what language he shall speak.

If you went for a job interview in a Glasgow law firm, they used to ask you what school you went to. And that was a way of finding out what religion you were.

The role of the federal government should be neutral toward culture just as it is toward religion.

The only consistency is hostility toward Western religion.

French laicite is probably aggressive and antagonistic to the religion, but there are other models of secularism in the world where there could be reconciliation between religion and secularism.

I went to Salt Lake City and the Mormons tried to convert me, but when I found they forbade tea and tobacco I thought it was no religion for me.

Religion is insanity by consensus.

Next to religion, baseball has had a greater impact on our American way of life than any other American institution.

We are all Greeks. Our laws, our literature, our religion, our arts, have their root in Greece.