Quotes about Culture

The singular demand for production has been unable to acknowledge the importance of the sources of production in nature and in human culture.

To understand the world, you must first understand a place like Mississippi.

when she spoke even now, after forty years, among the slurred consonants and the flat vowels of the land where her life had been cast, New England talked as plainly as it did in the speech of her kin who had never left New Hampshire

If you are going to write, write about human nature. That is the only thing that doesn't date.

In our country for all her greatness there is one thing she cannot do and that is translate a person wholly out of one class into another. Perfect translation from one language into another is impossible. Class is the British language.

Jews who long have drifted from the faith of their fathers... are stirred in their inmost parts when the old, familiar Passover sounds chance to fall upon their ears.

The German is like the slave who, without chains, obeys his masters merest word, his very glance. The condition of servitude is inherent in him, in his very soul and worse than the physical is the spiritual slavery. The Germans must be set free from wit

What a singular fact for an angel visitant to this earth to carry back in his note-book, that men were forbidden to expose their bodies under the severest penalties!

That is true culture which helps us to work for the social betterment of all.

Christianity today is so subnormal that if any Christian began to act like a normal New Testament Christian, he would be considered abnormal

Twenty-first-century people hear and learn differently than most churches communicate.

When I read the statements of Christ, there seems to be this urgency and intensity. I guess that's what I get out of it when I read the tone of the Scriptures, which is very different from the tone of our culture.