For a Westerner to trash Western culture is like criticizing our nitrogen/oxygen atmosphere on the grounds that it sometimes gets windy, and besides, Jupiter’s is much prettier. You may not realize its advantages until you’re trying to breathe liquid methane.
Culture Quotes
Most of the things we do, we do for no better reason than that our fathers have done them or that our neighbors do them, and the same is true of a larger part than we suspect of what we think.
Once again he was struck by the national media coverage – reporters from the coasts announcing, with some bewilderment, that there had been no looting. The Los Angeles riots of the previous year provided a vivid counterexample. Finkle-McGraw began to develop an opinion that was to shape his political views in later years, namely, that […]
The more intelligent and cultured a man is, the more subtly he can humbug himself.
The Law of Raspberry Jam – The wider any culture is spread, the thinner it gets.
Historians will have to face the fact that natural selection determined the evolution of cultures in the same manner as it did that of species.
There’s so much plastic in this culture that vinyl leopard skin is becoming an endangered synthetic.
Culture is the sum of all the forms of art, of love, and of thought, which, in the coarse or centuries, have enabled man to be less enslaved.
The idea that consumerism creates artificial desires rests on a wistful ignorance of history and human nature, on the hazy, romantic feeling that there existed some halcyon era of noble savages with purely natural needs. Close your Rousseau, open your Darwin. Once fed and sheltered, our needs have always been cultural. Until there is some […]
Culture is not just an ornament; it is the expression of a nation’s character, and at the same time it is a powerful instrument to mould character. The end of culture is right living.
