Culture, Cultures Quotes

The Mohammadan conquest of India is probably the bloodiest story in history. It is a discouraging tale, for its evident moral is that civilization is a precarious thing, whose delicate complex of order and liberty, culture and peace may at any time be overthrown by barbarians invading from without or multiplying within.

We shape our buildings and afterwards our buildings shape us.

The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.

Injustice which lasts for three long centuries and which exists among millions of people over thousands of square miles of territory, is injustice no longer; it is an accomplished fact of life. Men adjust themselves to their land; they create their own laws of being; their notions of right and wrong.

The first step in liquidating a people is to erase its memory. Destroy its books, its culture, its history. Then have somebody write new books, manufacture a new culture, invent a new history. Before long that nation will begin to forget what it is and what it was... The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting.

Americans love a winner. Americans will not tolerate a loser. Americans despise cowards. Americans play to win all of the time. I wouldn't give a hoot in hell for a man who lost and laughed. That's why Americans have never lost nor will ever lose a war; for the very idea of losing is hateful to an American.

Americans look foward to their posterity rather than backward to their ancestors.

Just as any moron can destroy a priceless Ming vase, so the shallow and ill-educated people who run our schools can undermine and destroy from within a great civilization that took centuries of dedicated effort to create and maintain.

The Hebrews have done more to civilize men than any other nation: The doctrine of a supreme, intelligent sovereign of the universe, I believe to be the great essential principle of all morality, and consequently of all civilization.

Music is the language of the soul; and for two people of different nations or races to unite, there is no better means than music

I was born and raised Catholic.

Let me make the songs of a nation, and I care not who makes its laws.

The end goal of the feminist revolution must be, unlike that of the first feminist revolution, not just elimination of male privilege, but of the sex distinction itself: genital differences between human beings would no longer matter culturally.

When I hear anyone talk of Culture, I reach for my revolver.

It is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere.

Names are the sweetest and most important sound in any language.

Everybody got their own swag.

The abolition of the Ottoman Caliphate by Kamal Ataturk after World War I was an affront to God’s rule.

Iran is not ready for Western-style democracy.

Everything in our world is branded.

Whoever controls the media—the images—controls the culture.

Modesty died when clothes were born.

Rhyme is cool again. It's because of hip-hop. Bless you, hip-hop.

The family is the nucleus of civilization.

In the four quarters of the globe, who reads an American book? Or goes to an American play? or looks at an American picture or statue? What does the world yet owe to American physicians or surgeons? What new substances have their chemists discovered? Or what old ones have they advanced? What new constellations have been discovered by the telescopes of Americans? Who drinks out of American glasses? Or eats from American plates? Or wears American coats or gowns? or sleeps in American blankets? Finally, under which of the old tyrannical governments of Europe is every sixth man a slave, whom his fellow-creatures may buy and sell and torture?