Quotes about Culture

The only thing I am really clear about in the whole problem is that a 'culture' that breaks down in the face of danger is no culture.

The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world that it leaves to its children.

The life of West, Nietzsche said, is based on Christianity. The values of the West are based on Christianity. Some of these values seem to have taken a life of their own, and this gives us the illusion that we can get rid of Christianity and keep the values. This, Nietzsche says, is an illusion...Remove the Christian foundation, and the values must go too.

I have never in my life seen a Kentuckian who didn't have a gun, a pack of cards, and a jug of whiskey.

I was told all my life I was part Cherokee. Then it was Crow. The latest is Blackfoot.

Many Christians have what we might call a "cultural holiness". They adapt to the character and behavior pattern of Christians around them. As the Christian culture around them is more or less holy, so these Christians are more or less holy. But God has not called us to be like those around us. He has called us to be like himself. Holiness is nothing less than conformity to the character of God.

We cannot separate the history of a nation from the people of that nation.

We need to call sin what the Bible calls it and not soften it with modern expressions borrowed from our culture.

It is so easy for us to stand apart from the culture and do no more than express self-righteous judgmentalism toward it. But those of us who grieve deeply over our own sin will not do this. Instead we will mourn over the sins and wickedness of our nation and will pray most urgently that, just as we want God to be merciful to us, so we want Him to be merciful to our nation as a whole. This will be another expression of humility in action.

The reason we in the West do not suffer more persecution is because we have accommodated ourselves too much to the world around us.

There's been a concerted effort to steal Christmas.

To go to bed at night in Madrid marks you as a little queer. For a long time your friends will be a little uncomfortable about it. Nobody goes to bed in Madrid until they have killed the night. Appointments with a friend are habitually made for after midnight at the cafe.