Quotes About Culture

The English are not a very spiritual people, so they invented cricket to give them some idea of eternity.

It is a woman's business to get married as soon as possible, and a man's to keep unmarried as long as he can.

H]e is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature.

George Bernard Shaw

The word morality, if we met it in the Bible, would surprise us as much as the word telephone or motor car.

The English have no respect for their language, and will not teach their children to speak it. They cannot spell it because they have nothing to spell it with but an old foreign alphabet of which only the consonants – and not all of them – have any agreed speech value. Consequently no man can teach himself what it should sound like from reading it; and it is impossible for an Englishman to open his mouth without making some other Englishman despise him.

An Irishman's heart is nothing but his imagination.

The 100% American is 99% idiot.

The British and Americans are two people separated by a common language.

You see, we're all savages, more or less. We're supposed to be civilized and cultured—to know all about poetry and philosophy and art and science, and so on; but how many of us know even the meanings of these names?

The reason why the continental European is, to the Englishman or American, so surprisingly ignorant of the Bible, is that the authorized English version is a great work of literary art, and the continental versions are comparatively artless.

If we desire a certain type of civilisation and culture we must exterminate the sort of people who do not fit into it.

If women were particular about men's characters, they would never get married at all.

The English have no respect for their language, and will not teach their children to speak it.

Marriage is the most licentious of human institutions . . . that is the secret of its popularity.

Civilized society is one huge bourgeoisie: no nobleman dares now shock his greengrocer.

You see, we're all savages, more or less. We're supposed to be civilized and cultured—to know all about poetry and philosophy and art and science, and so on; but how many of us know even the meanings of these names?

The savage bows down to idols of wood and stone: the civilized man to idols of flesh and blood.

When you're born into this world, you're given a ticket to the freak show. If you're born in America you get a front row seat.

I thought about how mothers feed their babies with tiny little spoons and forks so I wondered, what do Chinese mothers use? Toothpicks?

The Christians gave Him Sunday, the Jews gave Him Saturday, and the Muslims gave Him Friday. God has a three-day weekend.

The IQ and the life expectancy of the average American recently passed each other in opposite directions.

I figured out years ago that the human species is totally fucked and has been for a long time. I also know that the sick, media-consumer culture in America continues to make this so-called problem worse. But the trick, folks, is not to give a fuck. Like me. I really don't care. I stopped worrying about all this temporal bullshit a long time ago. It's meaningless.

You take 5 white guys and you take 5 black guys and put em together for a week and what you won't have is 5 blacks guys talking like, 'Golly gee, we really won that big basketball game' but you will have 5 white guys talking like 'Yo slick, whuzzup...we be shootin hoops and mad playin, slammed those mofos