Quotes About Culture

Whatever else an American believes or disbelieves about himself, he is absolutely sure he has a sense of humor.

We have ignored cultural literacy in thinking about education ... We ignore the air we breathe until it is thin or foul. Cultural literacy is the oxygen of social intercourse.

Great empires require great religions.

Collections of gnomes, adages, sayings, and parables have been made from times immemorial in all countries and in all languages possessing some kind of literature.

Like art and politics, gangsterism is a very important avenue of assimilation into society.

The white realtor lady asks if I'm adopted—like that's some legitimate, socially appropriate question to ask—and is halfway through a gushy story about her friend's new baby from Korea when I say, "Haven't you ever heard of interracial marriage? It's all the rage in civilized countries," and she shuts up and purses her lips.

People with money love Gershwin.

I'll tell you what I don't want at my funeral," says Johnny. "I don't want a bunch of New York art-world types who don't even know me standing around in a stupid-ass reception room." "I don't want religious people talking about a God I don't believe in," says Gat. "Or a bunch of fake girls acting all sad and then putting lip gloss on in the bathroom and fixing their hair," says Mirren.

Invisible Man. A Passage to India. The Magnificent Ambersons.

I own a well-used library card and not much else

The world, he believed, is a globe of men who are trying to reach one another and can best do so by the help of goodwill plus culture and intelligence.

The more highly public life is organized the lower does its morality sink.

But nothing in India is identifiable, the mere asking of a question causes it to disappear and merge into something else.

Man is for war; woman for the recreation of the warrior.

The term Judeo-Christianity does nothing but muddle two things that need to be distinguished, probably the intent of the word from the beginning.

Jews are never content to integrate themselves into existing structures, whether those structures are states, universities, art museums or the military. They feel compelled to infiltrate and subvert the institutions which admit them as members.

White is an identity marker for the deracinated people who have no religion.

There are no truces in cultural warfare. The law of cultural life is either occupy your own cultural territory or have it occupied by alien forces.

Ethnos needs Logos, especially if it aspires, as every ethnic group does, to become a nation.

Once the Catholics lost their nerve in the war over the sexualization of culture, once they backed away from holding Hollywood Jews to the basic rudiments of sexual decency, it was inevitable that the instruments of culture they failed to control would get used against them in all out cultural warfare. The sexualization of the Catholic clergy dates from this period.

the Church can have unity or she can have good relations with the Jews, but she can't have both. In opting for good relations with the Jews, the Church has destroyed Catholic unity and with it any ability the Church might have had to influence the world culture positively.

Once Europe turned away from Christ, it had to turn to the City of Man. That meant that Libido Dominandi became its constitution.

If women are inhibited sexually by culture, changes in the imagery promoted by the culture will bring about a change in behavior, which will in turn bring about a change in values, which will in turn usher in the revolution

But I feel music has a very important role in ritual activity, and that being able to join in musical activity, along with dancing, could have been necessary at a very early stage of human culture.