If, in any culture, children are taught, “We are all equally unworthy in the sight of God.” If, in any culture, children are taught, “You are born in sin and are sinful by nature.” If children are given a message that amounts to “Don’t think, don’t question, – believe.” -If children are given a message […]
Culture Quotes
What are the marks of a sick culture? It is a bad sign when the people of a country stop identifying themselves with the country and start identifying with a group. A racial group. Or a religion. Or a language. Anything, as long as it isn’t the whole population.
Now Americans are being killed simply because they are Americans. Like Orwell, Americans are once again becoming aware of themselves as a nationality, not just as members of some ethnic community or globalized Internet chat group. Americans have been reminded that, despite what the multiculturalists have been preaching, not all cultures are wonderfully equal hues […]
Culture means the perfect and equal development of man on all sides.
The great law of culture is: Let each become all that he was capable of being; expand, if possible to his full growth; resisting all impediments, casting off all foreign, especially all noxious adhesions; and show himself at length in his own shape and stature, be these what they may.
The old complaint that mass culture is designed for eleven- year- olds is of course a shameful canard. The key age has traditionally been more like fourteen.
At the center of culture is cult.
Cultural relativism seemd convincing as long as it was based on both a vague and a low view of culture. The low view was implicit in the term culture itself: relativists could plausibly argue that the Western habit of eating potatoes was no better than the Asian habit of eating rice… But it was far […]
The early Muslim geographer, Mas’udi, found the Franks and Slavs of Europe to be the ultimate barbarians, and they became paler, grosser and dumber the further north one went. He blames this on the absence of the sun’s heat. Perhaps tiring of temperature as an explanation, another Muslim traveler of the period attributes the stupidity […]
It is implied in all superior culture that a complete man would need no auxiliaries to his personal presence.
