Quotes About Culture

A nation which receives a culture ready made, and not elaborated by itself, condemns itself to intellectual sterility; at most it can only hope to imitate well.

Prejudice in this country is like chapters in a book. Chapter One: Hating the Africans and Indians. Chapter Two: Don't forget the Irish. Chapter Three: Polish jokes...... Hispanics? Latinos? Whatever you call us? Maybe we're Chapter Fifteen or Sixteen on the East Coast, but we're the preface in the West.

a sound English education corrected in a great measure her French defects;

Sweetened ice tea is one of the things I love about the South, right up there with homemade biscuits and cheese grits.

Too often in our culture of BlackBerrys and cell phones, people are disengaged and disconnected and distracted from their immediate surroundings.

Any subject we exclude from fiction will drop from our culture's memory.

We Irish have a gift for resignation. Or, put another way, fatalism.

Colleen ; that was what the Irish seemed to call every young female

I tell you frankly, Mrs. Damer, the more I see of different nations, the less sure I feel about the pre-eminence of my own.

I tried to remember what it was the old ones used to sprinkle on us children at Halloween in the part of the country where Tim and I had grown up.

Few countries have produced such arrogance and snobbishness as America.

Tan sólo por la educación puede el hombre llegar a ser hombre. El hombre no es más que lo que la educación hace de él.

There is no such thing as a happy ending. Every culture has a maxim that makes this point, while nowhere in the Universe is there a single gravestone that reads 'He Loved Everything About His Life, Especially the Dying Bit at the End'.

The humans were protecting their heritage, or so they thought. Strange that Mud People seemed more concerned about the past than the present.

We don't use the term savage Injun anymore. Some people take issue with being described as savages. Go figure.

Friese boeren eten alle dagen grauwe capucijners. - Butler

Obviously, that's a translation.)

Most of what passes for legitimate entertainment is inferior or foolish and only caters to or exploits people's weakness.

When modes of music change, the fundamental laws of the state always change with them. —Plato

destruction of the past, or rather the social mechanisms that link one's contemporary experience to that of earlier generations, is one of the most characteristic and eerie phenomena of the late twentieth century. Most young men and women at the century's end grow up in a permanent present lacking any organic relation to the public past of the times in which they live

Scratch an intellectual, and you find a would-be aristocrat who loathes the sight, the sound and the smell of common folk.

If a society is to preserve stability and a degree of continuity, it must learn how to keep its adolescents from imposing their tastes, values, and fantasies on everyday life.

Nowhere at present is there such a measureless loathing of their country by educated people as in America

though ours is a godless age, it is the very opposite of irreligious.