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.
Oscar WildeStichwörter: literature historians culture
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You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.
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There's no such thing as civilization. The word just means the art of living in cities.
Roger ZelaznyStichwörter: war civilization culture
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It was always so hot, and everyone was so polite, and everything was all surface but underneath it was like a bomb waiting to go off. I always felt that way about the South, that beneath the smiles and southern hospitality and politeness were a lot of guns and liquor and secrets.
James McBrideStichwörter: south culture heat
The greatest discovery any alien anthropologist could make about our culture is our overriding response to failure: If it didn't work last year, do it AGAIN this year (and if possible do it MORE)
Daniel QuinnStichwörter: progress change failure culture
It may be in the cultural particularities of people — in their oddities — that some of the most instructive revelations of what it is to be generically human are to be found.
Clifford GeertzStichwörter: culture anthropology
Cultural analysis is intrinsically incomplete. And, worse than that, the more deeply it goes the less complete it is.
Clifford GeertzStichwörter: culture anthropology
We are in the process of creating what deserves to be called the idiot culture. Not an idiot sub-culture, which every society has bubbling beneath the surface and which can provide harmless fun; but the culture itself. For the first time, the weird and the stupid and the coarse are becoming our cultural norm, even our cultural ideal.
Carl BernsteinStichwörter: life humanity culture idiocy
Advertising is a valuable economic factor because it is the cheapest way of selling goods, particularly if the goods are worthless.
Sinclair LewisStichwörter: culture
I imagine hell like this: Italian punctuality, German humour and English wine.
Peter UstinovStichwörter: humor humour hell culture stereotypes
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