Rough as a cob.
Culture Quotes
As the soil, however rich it may be, cannot be productive without cultivation, so the mind without culture can never produce good fruit.
I don’t despair about the cultural scene in Australia because there isn’t one to despair about.
In terms of quality of work, experience is an advantage. But when the whole culture changes its value system, as ours has been doing, you can evolve in a way that’s appropriate for your age and still wind up as an artifact.
Values imparted by the reigning culture have now received the sanction of the state. This is reflected in the distribution of condoms in schools, in the prohibition of school prayer, in the official rhetoric – “nonmarital childbearing” or “alternative lifestyle” – and in other ways. It takes a great effort for the individual to decide […]
What “multiculturalism” boils down to is that you can praise any culture in the world except Western culture – and you cannot blame any culture in the world except Western culture.
When one looks back over human existence, however, it is very evident that all culture has developed through an initial resistance against adaptation to the reality in which man finds himself.
For a Westerner to trash Western culture is like criticizing our nitrogen/oxygen atmosphere on the grounds that it sometimes gets windy, and besides, Jupiter’s is much prettier. You may not realize its advantages until you’re trying to breathe liquid methane.
Most of the things we do, we do for no better reason than that our fathers have done them or that our neighbors do them, and the same is true of a larger part than we suspect of what we think.
Once again he was struck by the national media coverage – reporters from the coasts announcing, with some bewilderment, that there had been no looting. The Los Angeles riots of the previous year provided a vivid counterexample. Finkle-McGraw began to develop an opinion that was to shape his political views in later years, namely, that […]
