Quotes about Culture
On observing 1963 America for the first time, the author says that organization and standardization to a certain degree compete with divine providence.
— Karl Barth
Christian minds have been conformed to the modern spirit: the spirit, that is, that spawns great thoughts of man and leaves room for only small thoughts of God.
— JI Packer
I will insist that the Hebrews have done more to civilize man than any other nation.
— John Adams
You must be aware that most men (and also not only a few women) are by nature not monogamous. This nature makes itself even more forceful when tradition and circumstance stand in an individual's way.
— Albert Einstein
The primary cause of this national crisis is the feminization of men.
— Tony Evans
One of the marks of an educated man today is to know what not to read--what not to see or what not to listen to.
— Ezra Taft Benson
The Catholic Church is the only thing that saves man from the degrading slavery of being a child of his age.
— GK Chesterton
Difference between savage and civilized man: one is painted, the other gilded.
— Mark Twain
The only very marked difference between the average civilized man and the average savage is that the one is gilded and the other is painted.
— Mark Twain
The civilized man is a more experienced and wiser savage.
— Henry David Thoreau
It is a ridiculous demand which England and America make, that you shall speak so that they can understand you. Neither men nor toadstools grow so.
— Henry David Thoreau
Seasoned life of man preserved and stored up in books.
— John Milton