Quotes About Culture

The Chinese Exclusion Act was a law designed to keep more Chinese from coming here once they'd finished building our railroads.' 'Doesn't sound terribly American.' 'On the contrary, it's very American.

You couldn't find a Jewish sheik?

What does freedom mean if we accept the fundamental premise that humans are social beings, raised in certain social and historical contexts and belonging to particular communities that shape their desires and understandings of the world?

it is in our century that love has come to be perceived as a refinement of the sexual impulse, but in many other centuries romantic love and sexual impulse were often considered unrelated.

France] may be the only country in the world where the rich are sometimes brilliant.

Style isn't just about what you wear, it's about how you live.

You know, Ethan, there are cultures on earth who believe that—under the right circumstances—a person can be separated from their inner spirit." "Inner spirit?" Rush repeated. "I mean the intangible life force that links us from this world to the next. The Byzantines, the Incans, certain Native American tribes, Enlightenment-era Rosicrucians, all had variant belief structures regarding such a thing—there were, and are, many others.

New Historical

Women, music, beer, and pie. Rurik, you're just an all-American guy.

How could an alphabet—letters that didn't even mean anything by themselves—be important? But it was important. Our stories, our names, our alphabet. Even Uncle's newspaper. It was all about words. If words weren't important, they wouldn't try so hard to take them away.

Westerners prefer sex toys so they can avoid playing mind games with each other. Conditioned by capitalism, they cannot share anything. They must hoard everything from their sins to their thoughts to their genitals. The sexual situation in the West is sorrowful nowadays, and that's why a country like Vietnam is the answer.

La UANL es la verga

I'm sitting in my home office wearing a bathrobe. The same way I'm not going to start wearing ties, I'm also not going to buy into the fake politeness, the lying, the office politics and backstabbing, the passive aggressiveness, and the buzzwords.

Dreiser's literary faults, it gives us to understand, are essentially social and political virtues.

The liberal judgment of Dreiser and James goes back of politics, goes back to the cultural assumptions that make politics. We are still haunted by a kind of political fear of the intellect which Tocqueville observed in us more than a century ago.

It is the wide sense of the word that is nowadays forced upon us, for clearly it is no longer possible to think of politics except as the politics of culture, the organization of human life toward some end or other, toward the modification of sentiments, which is to say the quality of human life.

No, wait, I drink any more java, I'm gonna start pissing Colombians.

In a rural community of five thousand, where the number of guns probably did outnumber the total population...

Marriage, as practised by high society, is arranged indecency.

There's not much need for prophets who are in synch with their society.

I think video games are going to completely take over storytelling in our society. Video games are not a fad.

I thoroughly believe that reading and literature can help a society to better understand itself.

Theatre is a mirror, a sharp reflection of society. The greatest playwrights are moralists.

The basic unit of any society is the home. When the home begins to break, the society is on the way to disintegration.