Quotes about Culture

There's no difference between fame and infamy now. There's a new school of professional famous people that don't do anything. They don't create anything.

Christian' makes a poor adjective

desacralizing

who can stand toe-to-toe with the best and brightest of the secular world, either in person or online, and swell Catholic hearts everywhere by making the faith appear not only plausible but more convincing, more humane, and ultimately more loving than its cultured despisers are. Here's one clear sign of his success: In the English language, after Pope Francis, Barron is the most-followed Catholic figure on social media.

Anybody who believes that the way to a man's heart is through his stomach flunked geography.

A proper Irishman always does what a lady asks him. Sure an' it's been the ruin av us. We're at the mercy av the petticoats.

The curious beauty of African music is that it uplifts even as it tells a sad tale. You may be poor, you may have only a ramshackle house, you may have lost your job, but that song gives you hope.

The European talks of progress because by the aid of a few scientific discoveries he has established a society which has mistaken comfort for civilisation.

In today's society, looking good and feeling good often trumps doing good and being good. And some people don't know the difference anymore.

The most dangerous ideas in a society are not the ones being argued, but the ones that are assumed.

Our society's obsession with tolerance leads to intolerance. Simply being a Christian today is an offense to our culture.

A capacity, and taste, for reading gives access to whatever has already been discovered by others.