#culture

I realised with a prickle of discomfort why he bothered me: it was not so much that I resented the hearty backslapping bonhomie of English upper-class gentlemen, for I could tolerate it well enough in Sidney on his own. It was the way Sidney fell so easily into this strutting group of young men, where I could not, and the fear that he might in some ways prefer their company to mine. Once again, I felt that peculiar stab of loneliness that only an exile truly knows: the sense that I did not belong, and never would again. ↗

— S.J. Parris

#culture #identity #men

Culture's essential service to a religion is to destroy intellectual idolatry, the recurrent tendency in religion to replace the object of its worship with its present understanding and forms of approach to that object. ↗

— Northrop Frye

#culture #destroy #essential #forms #idolatry

It's not just the players, it's the culture. Sometimes it's the people around them; the people who are looking after them - the money they're given. Some of the families give up their jobs and live off their sons. That would never have happened 10 years ago. ↗

— Ryan Giggs

#ago #around #culture #families #give

Culture is not made up but something that evolves which is human. ↗

— Edward T. Hall

#evolves #human #made #something #up

I'm a culture vulture, and I just want to experience it all. ↗

— Debbie Harry

#experience #i #just #vulture #want

But what is more, if we have succeeded in adding to the basic understanding of our universe and ourselves, we will have made a contribution to the totality of human culture. ↗

— Haldan Keffer Hartline

#basic #basic understanding #contribution #culture #human

I mention my age because I find people in this country - women, not men, of course - women are so troubled by their age. There's a culture of youth, and it's a phony culture. ↗

— Teresa Heinz

#because #country #course #culture #find

I think the culture today is very, very different from what it was in the '60s, and I feel lucky that I grew up at a time when I had these very strong female role models. ↗

— Susanna Hoffs

#different #feel #female #grew #had

Often, these downplay the power of cultural imperialism - in that sense, playing the game of US interests - by reassuring us that the global success of American mass culture is not as bad as all that. ↗

— Fredric Jameson

#bad #cultural #culture #downplay #game

When I hear the word culture - I release the safety-catch of my Browning. ↗

— Hanns Johst

#culture #hear #i #release #word