culture Quotes

All over the place, from the popular culture to the propaganda system, there is constant pressure to make people feel that they are helpless, that the only role they can have is to ratify decisions and to consume.

When secular figures are turned into divinities, they way they are in Peian Yang or Stanford University - that I don't like.

On the Internet, you think everything is going to be public.

My proposal happens to be very mainstream.

Europeans are much more serious than we are in America because they think that a good place to discuss intellectual matters is a beer party.

Our heritage and ideals, our code and standards - the things we live by and teach our children - are preserved or diminished by how freely we exchange ideas and feelings.

In the French language, there is a great gulf between prose and poetry; in English, there is hardly any difference. It is a splendid privilege of the great literary languages Greek, Latin, and French that they possess a prose. English has not this privilege. There is no prose in English.

Fashions have done more harm than revolutions.

Decadence is a difficult word to use since it has become little more than a term of abuse applied by critics to anything they do not yet understand or which seems to differ from their moral concepts.

All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn.