Quotes About Culture

It'd be bad enough without the complication of a feudal trade culture which turns its back on most science.

All of them, she thought, an entire culture trained to military order. What a priceless thing is here for an outcast Duke!

There's another thing, Jessica thought. Paul must be cautioned about their women. One of these desert women would not do as wife to a Duke. As concubine, yes, but not as wife.

In politics, the tripod is he most unstable of all structures. It's be bad enough without the complication of a feudal trade culture which turns its back on most science.

The meeting between ignorance and knowledge, between brutality and culture—it begins in the dignity with which we treat our dead.

She didn't like the fact that people of both sietch and graben referred to Muad'Dib as Him.

Cehalet ile bilginin, vahÅŸilik ve kültürün kesiÅŸmesi... ölülerimize gösterdiÄŸimiz sayg?yla baÅŸlar.

Cada civilización depende de la calidad de los individuos que produce.

Words can carry any burden we wish. All that's required is an agreement and a tradition upon which to build.

Riots and comedy are but symptoms of the times, profoundly revealing.

And Kynes rubbed his cheek, thinking of the legend: "He shall know your ways as though born to them.

Government, on the other hand, is a cultural organism particularly attractive to doubts, questions and contentions. I see the day coming when ceremony must take the place of faith and symbolism replaces morality.

My Fremen call themselves "Children of the Moon," he thought.

Loyalty in a male army fastens onto the army itself rather than onto the civilization which fosters the army.

A crime in one society can be a moral requirement in another society.

you can't get rid of Shakespeare without abolishing the very notion of literature.

If it sells, it's art.

Limerick gained a reputation for piety, but we knew it was only the rain.

I'm in New York, land of the free and home of the brave, but I'm supposed to behave as if I were in Limerick at all times.

They said her duck recipe and the Chinese music were so dramatic everything else sounded anemic.

and if I were in America I could say, I love you, Dad, the way they do in the films, but you can't say that in Limerick for fear you might be laughed at. You're allowed to say love you God and babies and horses that win but anything else is a softness in the head.

Better an English accent than an empty belly.

Com'è che appena apro bocca tutti quanti mi dicono che sono irlandesi e perché non andiamo a bere qualcosa insieme? Essere americano non basta. Bisogna essere sempre anche qualcos'altro, irlandesi-americani, tedesco americani, sicché viene da chiedersi come sarebbero andati avanti se qualcuno non avesse inventato il trattino (110).

A literature that cannot be vulgarized is no literature at all and will perish.