3,162 Quotes About Culture

The author relates the progress of inoculation against smallpox in America with the interaction between an African slave named Onisimus whose homeland knew how to treat the malady and and leading clergyman Cotton Mather who was curious and open-minded enough to listen to him.

A modern revolutionary group, explained Abbie Hoffman, headed for the television station, not the factory.

Don't you sense the enormity of your mistake – you invade a country without understanding its music. – Norman Mailer

The Bible and newspapers, to both Lincoln and Greeley, they represented equally compelling gospel.

General literature without the humbug," was the New Yorker's original mission.

Why is it that all the Christians I see on TV shows and movies are nothing like the Christians I know in actual life? The people I know have a sense of humor, aren't shallow, don't feel like they know all the answers, struggle, get scared, have hope, make sense, make peace, and hang on tight to their values because they're worth hanging on to. Have Hollywood writers just never actually set foot in a church???

All this visible greatness was really one with Nineveh and Tyre.

Jack and Bobby Kennedy were too young, too attached to real family to transfer affection and loyalty to those that of their blood or region or upbringing.

When he came home with the traditional gift of underwear bought with his first paycheck, she barely looked at it, and coldly shot at him, “What about what you were going to be?