Top Culture Quotes

The other dangerous delusion from which those who are wilfully or otherwise blind to realities suffer, is summed up in the word "integration." To be integrated into a population means to become for al...

Architecture belongs to culture, not to civilization.

Culture Definition

(n.) The act or practice of cultivating, or of preparing the earth for seed and raising crops by tillage; as, the culture of the soil.

(n.) The act of, or any labor or means employed for, training, disciplining, or refining the moral and intellectual nature of man; as, the culture of the mind.

(n.) The state of being cultivated; result of cultivation; physical improvement; enlightenment and discipline acquired by mental and moral training; civilization; refinement in manners and taste.

(v. t.) To cultivate; to educate.

For the first time in history, children are growing up whose earliest sexual imprinting derives not from a living human being, or fantasies of their own; since the 1960s pornographic upsurge, the sexu...

I plant a lot of trees. I am a great believer in planting things for future generations. I loathe the now culture where you just live for today.

Public symbols matter. They are one of the ways we tell each other, and the world, what we honor.

I don't turn to greeting cards for wisdom and advice, but they are a fine reflection of the general drift of the culture.

Sadly, the signals that allow men and women to find the partners who most please them are scrambled by the sexual insecurity initiated by beauty thinking. A woman who is self-conscious can't relax to...

I don't have to participate in another culture's ceremonies in order to respect that culture.

Nobody loves a policeman until he needs one.

A narcissist with power will attempt to prove in the world only what is already in his head. He can't 'see' otherwise. For him, the 'outside world' is not beyond him and does not question or challenge...

Irish and English are so widely separated in their mode of expression that nothing like a literal rendering from one language to the other is possible.

It seems to me that America is constantly reinventing what "America" means.

Never, enjoins a women's magazine, mention the size of his [penis] in public...and never, ever let him know that anyone else knows or you may find it shrivels up and disappears, serving you right. Tha...

Change occurs slowly. Very often a legal change might take place but the cultural shift required to really accept its spirit lingers in the wings for decades.

As popular culture becomes more presentist, we move away from entertainment as the vicarious experience of a narrative - as watching someone else's story - and much more toward enacting one's own stor...

The fastest way to destroy a culture is to make it multicultural.

It's amazing, the culture Coach Belichick has been able to create in our system.

Canada has a passive-aggressive culture, with a lot of sarcasm and righteousness. That went with my weird messianic complex. The ego is a fascinating monster. I was taught from a young age that I had...

To the European, it is a characteristic of the American culture that, again and again, one is commanded and ordered to 'be happy.' But happiness cannot be pursued; it must ensue. One must have a reaso...

Once a culture becomes entirely advertising friendly, it seizes to be a culture at all.