Culture Quotes

"There's no way to escape the fact that we've grown up in a very violent culture." "You have to make culture an everyday thing." "Literature is news that stays news." "All humanity is passion; without passion, religion, history, novels, art would be ineffectual" "We inhabit a language rather than a country" "You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture Just get people to stop reading them" "To understand the world, you must first understand a place like Mississippi." "It is easier to change a man's religion than to change his diet." "My Mexican roots are my pride and inspiration." "Beauty has no obvious use; nor is there any clear cultural necessity for it. Yet civilization could not do without it." "The first human who hurled an insult instead of a stone was the founder of civilization." "Myth is supposed to bring us together, but fantasy alienates us." "People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them" "It is very nearly impossible to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the independent mind" "I believe in the idea that where you come from is important" "The whole celebrity culture thing—I'm fascinated by, and repelled by, and yet I end up knowing about it." "Suffering is civilization" "Our elegy is a sociological one, yes, but it is also about psychology and community and culture and faith." "Jazz is not dead, it just smells funny" "A room without books is like a body without a soul"