Culture Quotes
Malignant phenomena do not come out of a golden age.
Asked what would be his idea of Heaven, one statesman in 1897 said it would be to "receive a flow of telegrams alternating news of a British victory by sea and a British victory by land.
John Brown, raised by disciplinarians, became one himself.
The tribal pull of patriotism could have no better testimony.
When he came home with the traditional gift of underwear bought with his first paycheck, she barely looked at it, and coldly shot at him, “What about what you were going to be?
Jack and Bobby Kennedy were too young, too attached to real family to transfer affection and loyalty to those that of their blood or region or upbringing.
All this visible greatness was really one with Nineveh and Tyre.
General literature without the humbug, " was the New Yorker's original mission.
The Bible and newspapers, to both Lincoln and Greeley, they represented equally compelling gospel.
if you want to make a human being into a monster, deny them, at the cultural level, any reflection of themselves.
There is no country in the world in which everything can be provided for by laws, or in which political institutions can prove a substitute for common sense and public morality.
Memory is always in art, even when it works involuntarily.
What did you do for them, Bone? Teach them to read and write? Help them rebuild, give them Christ, help restore a culture? Did you remember to warn them that it could never be Eden?
A poem, novel, or play acquires all of humanity's disorders, including the fear of mortality
Nations as well as men require time to learn, whatever may be their intelligence or zeal.
There is a natural prejudice which prompts men to despise whomsoever has been their inferior long after he has become their equal.
People think that other international languages are smarter and more business wise. But they have to understand that we have to preserve our culture.
Religion in art was a subtle business, best handled indirectly.
The surface of American society is covered with a layer of democracy, from beneath which the old aristocratic colors sometimes peep.
It was tempting to take refuge in feelings of British superiority, although I disliked myself for it and hoped it didn't show.
The American Club was for those who preferred to have dinner at six and brunch on a Sunday and avoid the stress of dealing with Greeks and their language.
Violence is violence and can in no way be misconstrued as discipline under any circumstance cultural or otherwise.
Your blanks have been filled in far differently from those of a child grown up in the filth and poverty
There were always those passengers who came aboard bearing grudges against the modern age.
A matter neither sensual nor sensational is ignored by the art of today.
Liberalism is not fond of fun, or at least of many forms of fun that many people like.
In Gladstone's mature years he lost faith not in God but in the ability of any government or state to act as the agent of God.
Enough anecdotes make a pattern.
A bad song you can't forget is called an earworm. The way to get rid of an earworm is to deliberately remember an equally awful song.
Alexander Hamilton reflected as early as the middle of the Revolutionary War that rallying at the last minute was part of the national character of his countrymen.
New York's perennial attraction was shopping.
Established churches not infrequently formed an alliance with the aristocracy, joining arm in arm against change.
Not only was it impossible to truly belong in America, but he didn't fit in here anymore either. He was a dweller of two lands, accepted by none.
Never trust a German to get a sauce right. Their solution to everything is just add more butter.
Longing for something fresh, for something no one else has said often leads to bad exegesis.
Addiction is to the habits of mind that technology allows us to practice.
As adults, we can develop and change our opinions. In childhood, we establish the truth of our hearts.
She had set it on the Internet, its own peculiar echo chamber.
Politics is always driven by competing worries.
Violence is temporary, but learning is permanent.
Americans in 1763 lived always in the shadow and presence of death. Death was not yet romanticized as it would be in the 19th century, nor yet sanitized as it would be in the 20th century.
Look at the mirror! Who are you? You are not yourself, you are your culture! Do you want to be yourself? Then leave your prison and discover the paths beyond your path!
This is what technology wants, it wants to be a symptom. Like all psychological symptoms, it obscures a problem by "solving" it without addressing it.
The Church should spend less time trying to be "relevant", which can come across as disingenuous, and more time trying to align their hearts to the authentic gospel message.
From visible habits we make inferences as to the invisible attributes of the soul. Therefore, statecraft is soulcraft.