Quotes About Culture

So, "normal" is really what society dictates as normal and if we're born in that world, we would see that as normal. But if you think about it for a second, is it really?

Civilized men are more discourteous than savages because they know they can be impolite without having their skulls split, as a general thing.

It's not those who write the laws that have the greatest impact on society. It's those who write the songs.

All that is good is not embodied in the law; and all that is evil is not proscribed by the law. A well-disciplined society needs few laws; but it needs strong mores.

Play is older than culture, for culture, however inadequately defined, always presupposes human society, and animals have not waited for man to teach them their playing.

To me, a painter, if not the most useful, is the least harmful member of our society.

The totality of beliefs and sentiments common to the average members of a society forms a determinate system with a life of its own. It can be termed the collective or creative consciousness.

To live in society today is like living in one enormous comic-strip.

In our society now, we prefer to see ourselves living than living.

No Statue of Liberty ever greeted our arrival in this country...we did not, in fact, come to the United States at all. The United States came to us.

Language has no independent existence apart from the people who use it. It is not an end in itself; it is a means to an end of understanding who you are and what society is like.

A cultural fixation on female thinness is not an obsession about female beauty but an obsession about female obedience.

The freedom of any society varies proportionately with the volume of its laughter.

To be an Indian in modern American society is in a very real sense to be unreal and ahistorical.

There are only two classes in good society in England: the equestrian classes and the neurotic classes.

I'd been brought up on the Upper East Side in a WASP society, which was death on crutches.

The entire money structure and materialistic society is a false society.

The nature of a society is largely determined by the direction in which talent and ambition flow - by the tilt of the social landscape.

General jackdaw culture, very little more than a collection of charming miscomprehensions, untargeted enthusiasms, and a general habit of skimming.

When people accept breaking the law as normal, something happens to the whole society.

Society doesn't have values. People have values.

Every one of us is a perfect human being, deformed by the family, the society and the culture.

We live in a culture in which condoms can be handed out in schools and Bibles can't. And I think that tells you everything you need to know about our society.

What a society deems important is enshrined in its art