3,162 Quotes About Culture

The world of most men is given to them by their culture..

a single generation enamoured of foreign ways is almost enough in history to risk the whole continuity of civilization and learning.

I never learned to say shit before a lady. I don't believe in progress in quite the way you seem to. You believe in it more than Grandmother did. As for those purely cultural patterns of convention you think I ought to escape from, they happen to add up to civilization, and I'd rather be civilized than tribal or uncouth.

Academic life is but half life it is a withdrawal from the fight to utter smart things that cost you nothing except the thinking them from a cloister.

Nations are as equal as so many madmen or drunkards.

The heathen could only be eliminated as a force if their culture was completely erased.

I feel like a failure." The expression comes so naturally that we forget it is a figure of speech: the language of business applied to the soul.

We live in a culture of complaint because everyone is always looking for things to complain about. It's all tied in with the desire to blame others for misfortunes and to get some form of compensation into the bargain.

She'd asked him what it was like to be in there, doing nothing but then being woken up to speak to somebody you couldn't see. He'd said that it was like being woken from a deep and satisfying sleep, to be asked questions while you kept your eyes closed. He was quite happy. Sight was over-rated anyway.