Quotes about Culture

A sign of a culture that has lost its faith - Moral collapse follows upon spiritual collapse.

The ultimate solution to the problem of spiritual complacency is to create a systematically embedded culture of holy urgency.

In a spiritually sensitive culture, then, it might well be that age is something to be admired or envied.

Football: A sport that bears the same relation to education that bullfighting does to agriculture.

primitive religions are based entirely on fear

You've got to choose between happiness and what people used to call high art.

I ate civilization. It poisoned me; I was defined. And then, I ate my own wickedness.

Aldous Huxley absolutely detested mass culture and popular entertainment, and many of his toughest critical essays, as well as several intense passages in his fiction, consist of sneers and jeers at the cheapness of the cinematic ethic and the vulgarity of commercial music.

People, he was beginning to understand, are at once the beneficiaries and the victims of their culture. It brings them to flower; but it also nips them in the bud or plants a canker at the heart of the blossom.

I've read hundreds of books about China over the decades. I know the Chinese. I've made a lot of money with the Chinese. I understand the Chinese mind.

The American way of life is not negotiable.

Whatever, in fact, is modern in our life we owe to the Greeks. Whatever is an anachronism is due to mediaevalism.