Quotes About Culture

Western intellectuals are all sitting-addicts. That's why most of you are so repulsively unwholesome.

You can't have a lasting civilization without plenty of pleasant vices.

Aldous Huxley absolutely detested mass culture and popular entertainment, and many of his toughest critical essays, as well as several intense passages in his fiction, consist of sneers and jeers at the cheapness of the cinematic ethic and the vulgarity of commercial music.

American Notes

No cabe civilización alguna sin estabilidad social. Y no hay estabilidad social sin estabilidad individual.

Thanks to language and culture, human behavior can be incomparably more intelligent, more original, creative and flexible than the behavior of animals, whose brains are too small to accommodate the number of neurons necessary for the invention of language and the transmission of accumulated knowledge. But, thanks again to language and culture, human beings often with a stupidity, a lack of realism, a total inappropriateness, of which animals are incapable.

Thanks to the realistic ideas handed down by culture, mankind has survived and, in certain fields, progresses. But thanks to the pernicious nonsense drummed into every individual in the course of his acculturation, mankind, though surviving and progressing, has always been in trouble. History is the record, among other things, of the fantastic and generally fiendish tricks played upon itself by culture-maddened humanity. And the hideous game goes on.

lands behind the former Iron Curtain: the West has its own versions now. On the other hand, Brave New World hasn't gone away. Shopping malls stretch as far as the bulldozer can see. On the wilder fringes of the genetic engineering community, there are true believers prattling of the Gen-rich

People, he was beginning to understand, are at once the beneficiaries and the victims of their culture. It brings them to flower; but it also nips them in the bud or plants a canker at the heart of the blossom.

La civilización no tiene necesidad de nobleza ni heroísmo. Ambas cosas son sintomas de ineficacia política.

She was accustomed in London to associate only with first-rate people who liked first-rate things, and she knew that there were very, very few first-rate things in the world, and that those were mostly French. "Well

The Savage, wrote Bernard in his report to Mustapha Mond, shows surprisingly little astonishment at, or awe of, civilized inventions. This is partly due, no doubt, to the fact that he has heard them talked about by the woman Linda, his m---. (Mustapha Mond frowned. Does the fool think I'm too squeamish to see the word written out at full length?)

The proper study of mankind is books. –

Back to culture. Yes, actually to culture. You can't consume much if you sit still and read books.

For unrestricted use the West has permitted only alcohol and tobacco. All the other chemical Doors in the Wall are labeled Dope, and their unauthorized takers are Fiends. We now spend a good deal more on drink and smoke than we spend on education. This, of course, is not surprising. The urge to escape from selfhood and the environment is in almost everyone almost all the time.

Civilización es esterilización

But to understand English is one thing; to understand an Englishman who talks is another.

But neither Europe nor Africa can show any such desolation as America. The proudest, stubbornest, bitterest peasant of deserted Spain, the most primitive and superstitious Arab of the remotest oases, are a little more than kin and never less than kind at their worst; whereas in the United States one is almost always conscious of an instinctive lack of sympathy and understanding with even the most charming and cultured people.

Hoy el inglés se ha convertido en un idioma tan importante que hasta los norteamericanos van a tener que aprenderlo.

Nobody reads poetry anymore So who the hell are you I see bent over this book?

vždy mal na sebe sako a kravatu, lebo tvrdil, že knihy treba reÅ¡pektovaÃ…Â¥, vÅ¡etky, aj tie mizerné.

Non ha mura, Timbuktu, perché da sempre pensano, laggiù, che la sua bellezza, da sola, fermerebbe qualsiasi nemico.

I produttori di seta di Lavilledieu erano, chi più chi meno, dei gentiluomini, e mai avrebbero pensato di infrangere una qualsiasi legge del loro Paese. L'ipotesi di farlo dall'altra parte del mondo, tuttavia, risultò loro ragionevolmente sensata.

It was the first time the name had ever been spoken as this child's name, for Omoro's people felt that each human being should be the first to know who he was.