Quotes About Culture

excuse for our negligent attitude. But it is not so. What we call chauvinistic education - in the case of the French people, for example - is only the excessive exaltation of the greatness of France in all spheres of culture or, as the French say, civilization. The French boy is not educated on purely objective principles. Wherever the importance of the political and cultural greatness of his country is concerned he is taught in the most subjective way that one can imagine.

Il ricordo della miseria intellettuale della massa operaia, la volgarità dei rapporti che vi regnano, fa apparire una insopportabile molestia l'idea di un qualsiasi contatto con quello stadio superato di cultura e di vita

In my eyes, the charge against Jewry became a grave one the moment I discovered their activities in the press, art, literature, and the theater. All protests to the contrary were now essentially futile. One needed only to look at the posters announcing the monstrous productions of the cinema and theater, and study the names of the authors who were so highly praised there, in order to become permanently unwavering.

El problema de la nacionalizacion de un pueblo consiste en crear sanas condiciones sociales como base de la educacion individual, solo aquel que haya aprendido en el hogar y escuela, aprecia la grandeza cultural, economica y politica de su propia patria, sentira el intimo orgullo de ser subdito de esa nacion, solo se puede luchar por aquello que se quiere, se quiere lo que se respeta y se respata unicamente lo que por lo menos se conoce.

Germany's fate is the fate of Western Culture.

La dottrina semita rifiuta il principio aristocratico della natura e pone al posto dell'eterno diritto della forze e della potenza, il numero col suo peso morto. Essa rinnega nell'uomo il valore della persona, mette in dubbio l'importanza del popolo e della razza, togliendo così all'umanità le premesse della sua conservazione e della sua cultura. Essa, se posta a base dell'universo, porterebbe alla fine in ogni ordine umano comprensibile alla ragione

Het oude geloof zal weer in ere worden hersteld, de geheime kennis van de natuur, van het demonische. We zullen het christelijke vernis afwassen en een religie naar voren brengen die eigen is aan ons ras.

All of Spain is contained in DON QUIXOTE—-a decrepit society unaware the world has passed it by.

A state has never arisen from peaceful economic means, but always from the instinct to maintain the species--whether this instinct manifest itself in the heroic sphere, or in that of cunning craftiness. In the first case, we have the Aryan states, based on the principles of work and culture. In the second case, we have the Jewish parasitic colonies.

The fact that nine-tenths of all the smutty literature, artistic tripe and theatrical banalities, had to be charged to the account of people who formed scarcely one per cent. of the nation - that fact could not be gainsaid. It was there, and had to be admitted.

Le predisposizioni profonde dei popoli determinano gli effetti dell'influenza esterna. Ciò che conduce gli uni a crepare di fame, educa invece gli altri al duro lavoro

All the great civilizations of the past decayed because the originally creative race died out, as a result of poisoning of the blood... The ultimate cause of such a decline is the fact that the people forgot that all culture depends on men, and not the reverse. In other words, to preserve a certain culture, the man that creates it must be preserved.

Idealism does not represent a superfluous expression of emotion, but in truth it has been, is, and will be, the premise for what we designate as human culture...Without his idealistic attitude all, even the most dazzling faculties of the intellect, would remain mere intellect just like outward appearance without inner value, and never creative force....The purest idealism is unconsciously equivalent to the deepest knowledge...

Cultural evolution is synonymous with the removal of ornament from articles in daily use.

Hejsek je ?lov?k, jemuž slouží oblek jen k tomu, aby se od svého okolí co nejvíce lišil

the development of culture is concurrent with the removal of ornaments from objects of daily use

Human progress and human cultures are not founded by the multitude, they are the works of personal genius and personal efficiency

In so far as the culture industry arouses a feeling of well-being that the world is precisely in that order suggested by the culture industry, the substitute gratification which it prepares for human beings cheats them out of the same happiness which it deceitfully projects.

Plenty of Westerners come, though, to pick through its jumble for something off the peg that fits; they do yoga as exercise, which is a bit like walking the stations of the cross as aerobics.

Being a color in Texas is to wake stressed from being.

Archaeology reveals that about one out of three or four nomad women of the steppes was an active warrior buried with her weapons.

Strabo also described the sexual mores of the mountain tribes of Media (northwestern Iran): the men have up to five women and 'likewise the women believe it honorable to have as many men as possible and consider less than five a calamity.

Women have been driven mad, "gaslighted", for centuries by the refutation of our experience and our instincts in a culture which validates only male experience. The truth of our bodies and our minds has been mystified to us. We therefore have primary obligation to each other: not to undermine each other's sense of reality for the sake of expediency; not to gaslight each other.

if you unquestioningly accept one piece of the culture that despises and fears you, you are vulnerable to other pieces.