3,162 Quotes About Culture

Drawings on caves dealt with one of man's major concerns, that of finding food. Hunting with spears, trapping deer, stalking game with bows and arrows, and spearing fish or catching them in nets are all portrayed with an energy.

When words possessing a high degree of terroristic menace become desemanticized in a ritualized literary culture, they not only cease to mean what they had meant, but also lose common elements of meaning, which become unstable and easily replaceable; then all the speakers of this ideological language become extremely vulnerable; the drifting ideological meanings harbor mortal danger.

If long and meandering postmodern zaniness and stale, rip-off modernism are now the Culture, then it is not itself. It has been stricken by dementia. I’m here now to jog its memory one last time and then deliver it to a dignified death.

We now live in a world where notions of selfhood have become increasingly malleable,

How we see ourselves and how we see others is now mediated by social media platforms and a desire to push beyond antecedent cultures,

I want to point out another contradiction: the nationalists pretend to venerate the capacities of the Argentine mind but want to limit the poetic exercises of that mind to a few impoverished local themes, as if we Argentines could only speak of orillas aná estancias and not of the universe.

The Culture, according to Emerson, does not die a dignified death. It’s been stricken by madness, bombarded by strange forces, many of its own making, now out of its control, and it’s started to cannibalize itself.

No one can sweep,for why sweep away hope?No one can splash water,for why splash away joy?(celebration of Tet)

Pure madness, the Culture more animal than man now, as if stricken by rabies.