Quotes about Culture

Pop music will never be low brow.

What affects men sharply about a foreign nation is not so much finding or not finding familiar things it is rather not finding them in the familiar place.

Without morality and virtue most things in a free society fall apart. But with them, anything is possible.

Hollywood, Woodstock, nor the hippie culture was the source of power of the 1960's freedom movement. God was.

It must be frustrating for decent parents to watch their children fall under the influence of radical educators, and sometimes make foolish decisions based on the predominant cultures in their schools. But no one should be surprised it happens—far too many educators are moral relativists who reject the notion of absolute right or wrong.

Altogether, I can't imagine technology replacing bookstores completely, any more than movies about a country replace going there.

No wonder the romance of Wuthering Heights endures—as do romantic myths in almost every culture. Indeed, the more patriarchal and gender-polarized a culture is, the more addicted to romance. These myths embody our yearning to be whole. No wonder romance so often begins at a physical distance or across a psychic chasm of class and race,* and thrives on death and separation. Projecting our lost qualities onto someone else can be done more easily from a distance.

I soon learned there was a very Indian habit of asking personal questions.

When God is depicted only as a white man, only white men seem godly.

If we could follow the slogan that says,"Turn off the TV and open a good book" we would do something of substance for a future generation.

Books represent the accumulated workings of the human mind, the endless treasures of man's thoughts.

I know of no other practise which will make one more attractive in conversation than to be well-read in a variety of subjects. There is a great potential within each of us to go on learning