Culture Quotes

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

~ Barbara W. Tuchman

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

~ Harold Holzer

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???

~ Angela Wilhite

The same magazines which not long before advertised products which would quickly allow women to return to their war work now extolled elaborate recipes which women could attempt if they stayed home and vacated jobs for men.

~ Doris Kearns Goodwin

We are all of us, to some degree or another, brainwashed by the society we live in. We are able to see this when we travel to another country, and are able to catch a glimpse of our own country with foreign eyes.. the best we can hope for is that a kindly friend from another culture will enable us to look at our culture with dispassionate eyes.

~ Doris Lessing

if you want to make a human being into a monster, deny them, at the cultural level, any reflection of themselves.

~ Junot Díaz

There is no country in the world in which everything can be provided for by laws, or in which political institutions can prove a substitute for common sense and public morality.

~ Alexis De Tocqueville

Memory is always in art, even when it works involuntarily.

~ Harold Bloom

What did you do for them, Bone? Teach them to read and write? Help them rebuild, give them Christ, help restore a culture? Did you remember to warn them that it could never be Eden?

~ Walter M. Miller Jr

A poem, novel, or play acquires all of humanity's disorders, including the fear of mortality

~ Harold Bloom

Under the absolute sway of an individual despot the body was attacked in order to subdue the soul, and the soul escaped the blows which were directed against it and rose superior to the attempt; but such is not the course adopted by tyranny in democratic republics; there the body is left free, and the soul is enslaved.

~ Alexis De Tocqueville

Laws are always unstable unless they are founded upon the manners of the nation, manners are the only durable and resisting power in a people.

~ Alexis De Tocqueville

She feared that she would become a slave to superficial, symbolic duties.

~ Doris Kearns Goodwin

Nations as well as men require time to learn, whatever may be their intelligence or zeal.

~ Alexis De Tocqueville

There is a natural prejudice which prompts men to despise whomsoever has been their inferior long after he has become their equal.

~ Alexis De Tocqueville

The greatest difficulty in antiquity with that of altering the law; among the moderns, it is that of altering the manners.

~ Alexis De Tocqueville

People think that other international languages are smarter and more business wise. But they have to understand that we have to preserve our culture.

~ Enock Maregesi

Religion in art was a subtle business, best handled indirectly.

~ Philip Zaleski

The surface of American society is covered with a layer of democracy, from beneath which the old aristocratic colors sometimes peep.

~ Alexis De Tocqueville

He wouldn't hear of anybody's paying taxes, though he was very patriotic.

~ Charles Dickens

Culture in any place always goes top down, never bottom up. We need to step back and look at what kind of environment we have created for ourselves and those around us. It is tough to expect positive behavior in a negative environment. Where lawlessness becomes the law, honest citizens become cheats, crooks and thieves.

~ Shiv Khera

It was tempting to take refuge in feelings of British superiority, although I disliked myself for it and hoped it didn't show.

~ John Mole

The American Club was for those who preferred to have dinner at six and brunch on a Sunday and avoid the stress of dealing with Greeks and their language.

~ John Mole

When straight-identified women have sex with women, the broader culture waits in anticipation for them to return to what is likely their natural, heterosexual state; when straight-identified men have sex with men, the culture waits in anticipation for them to admit that they are gay.

~ Jane Ward

The path to the ethnic democratization of American society is through its culture, that is to say through its cultural apparatus, which comprises the eyes, the ears, and the mind of capitalism and is twentieth-century voice to the world. Thus to democratize the cultural apparatus is tantamount to revolutionizing American society itself into the living realization of its professed ideas. Seeing the problem in another way, to revolutionize the cultural apparatus is to deal fundamentally with the unsolved American question of nationality--Which group speaks for America and for the glorification of which ethnic image? Either all group images speak for themselves and for the nation, or American nationality will never be determined.

~ Harold Cruse

Violence is violence and can in no way be misconstrued as discipline under any circumstance cultural or otherwise.

~ Aysha Taryam

Your blanks have been filled in far differently from those of a child grown up in the filth and poverty

~ John Howard Griffin

There were always those passengers who came aboard bearing grudges against the modern age.

~ Erik Larson

A matter neither sensual nor sensational is ignored by the art of today.

~ E.m. Forster

Liberalism is not fond of fun, or at least of many forms of fun that many people like.

~ George F. Will

In Gladstone's mature years he lost faith not in God but in the ability of any government or state to act as the agent of God.

~ George F. Will

Enough anecdotes make a pattern.

~ George F. Will

Alexander Hamilton reflected as early as the middle of the Revolutionary War that rallying at the last minute was part of the national character of his countrymen.

~ John Ferling

Murder was a fascination as always.

~ Erik Larson

New York's perennial attraction was shopping.

~ Erik Larson

Established churches not infrequently formed an alliance with the aristocracy , joining arm in arm against change.

~ John Ferling

In the context of today, this WAS heroism.

~ John Howard Griffin

Not only was it impossible to truly belong in America, but he didn't fit in here anymore either. He was a dweller of two lands, accepted by none.

~ Shilpi Somaya Gowda

Make this part of your brand DNA... Tell Your Story In a Way People Will Care.

~ Ted Rubin

A Martial Artist may become A professional fighter but not every Fighter is capable of becoming A martial artist. Martial Arts are about restoration of physical and spiritual balance and fluidity; they are about observing restraints and 'setting example'. Every practice session is A reminder of the play of opposites (yin and yang), . . . .

~ Soke Behzad Ahmadi