Culture Quotes - Page 13

Our culture of violence is an incubator, where our children are the crop of future techno-warrior killers.

A ‘white’ kid that asks too many questions is called *curious.* A ‘black’ kid that asks too many questions is called *forward.*

Even their insistence on educating their children, the last reflex of any exploited group before it sank into submission, marked the end of their resistance.

A woman made of parts is a dangerous thing. You never know when she'll throw away a piece you may need.

Mind being the seat of the soul, and literature being the expression of the mind, literature, it follows, is the soul of an age, the surviving and immortal part of it.

Oh I'm sure you're right," Auntie said. "Probably she's just as you say. But she looks to me like a very clever girl, and adaptable; you can see that from the shape of her ears.

Planning is for the world's great cities, for Paris, London, and Rome, for cities dedicated, at some level, to culture. Detroit, on the other hand, was an American city and therefore dedicated to money, and so design had given way to expediency.

There is nothing quite so tragic as a young cynic, because it means the person has gone from knowing nothing to believing nothing.

To give an accurate description of what has never occurred is not merely the proper occupation of the historian, but the inalienable privilege of any man of parts and culture.

To me, literature is a calling, even a kind of salvation. It connects me with an enterprise that is over 2,000 years old. What do we have from the past? Art and thought. That’s what lasts. That’s what continues to feed people and give them an idea of something better.

It's amazing how, age after age, in country after country, and in all languages, Shakespeare emerges as incomparable.

And that is to say, of course, that you can "read" a culture without its literature, without the bother of gathering and holding its ideas, considering their genesis and evolution, and weighing them in the balance with each other.

If arts and music, precious gifts in themselves, were akin to memory, literature was the self-knowing of the species; the human mind accumulated, a manifest of wisdom and knowledge, self-doubt and awareness, folly and foible, all transmitted through the generations. Books amplified the light of mind, reinforced the soul.

Culture is fundamental. Literature saves you. Cinema saves you.

..if you could forget mortality... You could really believe that time is circular, and not linear and progressive as our culture is bent on proving. Seen in geological perspective, we are fossils in the making, to be buried and eventually exposed again for the puzzlement of creatures of later eras.

Gulliver was soon being read "from the cabinet council to the nursery".

Even the models we see in magazines wish they could look like their own images.

A good newspaper, I suppose, is a nation talking to itself.

It must be recognized that in any culture the source of law is the god of that society.

Persons appear to us according to the light we throw upon them from our own minds. -Laura Ingalls Wilder, author (1867-1957)