Quotes about Culture

Our culture abounds with hollow and deceptive theories of change that masquerade as biblical wisdom, often because they borrow some aspect of biblical truth. Yet they are hollow because they miss the center of biblical wisdom, which is Christ.

We are to be in the world, though not of it. Often Christians have evaded the challenge of this call by defining their role as salt in negative terms. They have simply denounced bad things in the culture and been against things rather than for them.

Playing in a city like Norman, where it's all about Oklahoma football. A no-brainer for me.

Civilization is not by means an easy thing to attain to. There are only two ways by which man can reach it. One is by being cultured, the other by being corrupt.

For the canons of good society are, or should be, the same as the canons of art. Form is absolutely essential to it.

The arts that have escaped [uniformity] best are the arts in which the public take no interest. Poetry is an instance of what I mean. We have been able to have fine poetry in England because the public do not read it, and consequently do not influence it.

There is something very morbid about modern sympathy with pain.

He atones for being occasionally somewhat overdressed by being always absolutely over-educated. He is a very modern type.

As long as war is regarded as wicked, it will always have its fascination.When it is looked upon as vulgar, it will cease to be popular.

The art of living. The only really Fine Art we have produced in modern times.

Modern morality consists in accepting the standard of one's age. I consider that for any man of culture to accept the standard of his age is a form of the grossest immorality.

There are only two ways, as you know, of becoming civilized. One is by being cultured, the other is by being corrupt.