Quotes About Culture

I must study Politicks and War that my sons may have liberty to study Mathematicks and Philosophy. My sons ought to study Mathematicks and Philosophy, Geography, natural History, Naval Architecture, navigation, Commerce and Agriculture, in order to give their Children a right to study Painting, Poetry, Musick, Architecture, Statuary, Tapestry, and Porcelaine.

The Hebrews have done more to civilize men than any other nation. If I were an atheist, and believed blind eternal fate, I should still believe that fate had ordained the Jews to be the most essential instrument for civilizing the nations.

Words are a mirror of their times. By looking at the areas in which the vocabulary of a language is expanding fastest in a given period, we can form a fairly accurate impression of the chief preoccupations of society at that time and the points at which the boundaries of human endeavour are being advanced.

A good holiday is one spent among people whose notions of time are vaguer than yours.

Ummayad dynasty

Keeping the notion of dignity front and center creates a workplace where people want to be.

The essential fascination of any exotic place is its people and culture.

Every artist joins a conversation that's been going on for generations, even millennia, before he or she joins the scene.

Every artist joins a conversation that's been going on for generations, even millennia, before he or she joins the scene.

Link by link, click by click, search is building possibly the most lasting, ponderous, and significant cultural artifact in the history of humankind: the Database of Intentions.

the essence of Paris is lost if seen through the double glazing of a hotel room or from the top of a tour bus. You must be on foot, with chilled hands thrust into your pockets, scarf wrapped round your throat, and thoughts of a hot café crème in your imagination. It made the difference between simply being present and being there.

John L. Stoddard's Lectures VOL. IX Scotland England

If there's a single trait common to all Savannahians, it's their love of money and their unwillingness to spend it.

We have a saying: If you go to Atlanta, the first question people ask you is, 'What's your business?' In Macon they ask, 'Where do you go to church?' In Augusta they ask your grandmother's maiden name. But in Savannah the first question people ask you is 'What would you like to drink?

The South is one big drag show, honey [...].

How do you do that?" I asked. "What do witches eat?" "Witches loves pork meat," she said. "They loves rice and potatoes. They loves black-eyed peas and cornbread. Lima beans, too, and collard greens and cabbage, all cooked in pork fat. Witches is old folks, most of them. They don't care none for low-cal. You pile that food on a paper plate, stick a plastic fork in it, and set it down by the side of a tree. And that feeds the witches." The

Men act and women appear. Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at. This determines not only most relations between men and women but also the relation of women to themselves.

In the average European oil painting of the nude the principal protagonist is never painted. He is the spectator in front of the picture and he is presumed to be a man.

The nude is condemned to never being naked. Nudity is a form of dress.

Publicity is the life of this culture. Without publicity capitalism could not survive and at the same time publicity is its dream.

Why? Because true translation is not a binary affair between two languages but a triangular affair. The third point of the triangle being what lay behind the words of the original text before it was written. True translation demands a return to the pre-verbal

Men watch. Women watch themselves being watched.

Gerçekte hep iki zaman aras?nday?zd?r: Gövdenin ve bilincin zaman? aras?nda. Bütün öbür kültürlerdeki ruh ve gözde aras?ndaki ayr?m iÅŸte buradan kaynaklan?r. Öncelik her zaman ruhundur ve yeri bir baÅŸka zaman?n akt??? çizgidedir.

In no other form of society in history has there been such a concentration of images, such a density of visual messages.