Quotes about Culture
Let a man be stimulated by poetry, established by the rules of propriety, and perfected by music.
— Confucius
Poetry had breathed over and sanctified the land.
— Washington Irving
People who bowl vote. Bowlers are not the cultural elite.
— Dan Quayle
When we refer to 'the biblical approach to economics' or the biblical response to politics' or 'biblical womanhood,' we're using the Bible as a weapon disguised as an adjective.
— Rachel Held Evans
The intergenerational poverty that troubles us so much today is predominantly a poverty of values.
— Dan Quayle
To the same degree that your understanding of and attitude toward Afrika become positive, you'll find that your understanding of and your attitude toward yourself will also become positive.
— Malcolm X
People who alter or destroy works of art and our cultural heritage for profit or as an exercise of power are barbarians.
— George Lucas
Ireland treats you more like a friend than a tourist.
— Will Rogers
There's nothing in common between politics and civilization.
— Will Rogers
William Carey chides his countrymen for deciding it would be impossible for the Gospel to travel over great distances and to penetrate varied cultures when they are willing to face the same trials for the sake of commerce.
— William Carey
Tell about the South. What's it like there. What do they do there. Why do they live there. Why do they live at all.
— William Faulkner
The moral flabbiness born of the bitch-goddess SUCCESS. That — with the squalid interpretation put on the word success — is our national disease.
— William James