Daniel Patrick Moynihan Quotes

There are a lot of things that people learn and live through culture first, and politics comes afterward.

Culture is more important than politics.

Politics is chiefly a function of culture, at the heart of culture is morality, and at the heart of morality is religion.

What is a value? Obviously, normal and healthy people are able to appreciate something as a high value for which to live and if necessary, to die, for no other reason than that it was evolved in cultural ritualization and handed down to them by a revered elder.

Culture is more important than politics and government.

Culture itself is neither education nor law-making: it is an atmosphere and a heritage.

Our customs, behaviors, and values are byproducts of our culture.

Everything is arranged so that it be this way, this is what is called culture.

Culture is not a biologically transmitted complex.

Culture is the air we breathe all around us.

George Bush doesn't represent any civilization!

I think culture precedes politics, and I think the attempts to try and legislate people's behavior... isn't going to be productive until the culture decides what they want to achieve.

Custom is our nature …

A deep meaning resides in old customs.

Culture is more important than rules and regulations.

We have a unique culture.

I'd rather be at the end of a dying tradition, which I admire, than at the beginning of a tradition which I deplore.

Culture is coded wisdom

To say that someone is a conservative does not tell us what he is interested in conserving.

Culture or civilization, taken in its wide ethnographic sense, is that complex whole which includes knowledge, belief, art, morals, law, custom, and any other capabilities and habits acquired by man as a member of society

Culture is religion incarnate.

If someone were to put a proposition before men bidding them choose, after examination, the best customs in the world, each nation would certainly select its own.

The life history of the individual is first and foremost an accommodation to the patterns and standards traditionally handed down in his community.

To me, I learned along the way, you know, culture is behavior. That's all it is; culture is people's behaviors.

Customs form us all, our thoughts, our morals, our most fixed beliefs; are consequences of our place of birth.