Quotes about Culture

The Ugly American

Brought up in this city at the feet of Gamaliel.

The Christian church in the U.S. is still strong numerically, but it has lost its decisive influence both in American public life and in American culture as a whole, especially in the major elite institutions of society.

Many novels and modern publications are corrupters of morals or distorters of truth.

The Puritans removed organs and paintings from churches, but bought them for private use in their homes.

You see God's hands in so many situations. Then someone will point to all the bad things that are going on. Well, it's because we don't want God in our society. We are pushing God farther and farther away. And we can now see those consequences in our society.

We're trying to keep the 'foot' in 'football.'

I'm not one of those freaks who can't see anything past 1977.

I love theatre, but it is losing its value in Punjab. There are no funds or government back up.

Words can carry any burden we wish. All that's required is agreement and a tradition upon which to build.

The meeting between ignorance and knowledge, between brutality and culture—it begins in the dignity with which we treat our dead.

Words can carry any burden we wish. All that's required is an agreement and a tradition upon which to build.