"A man should be just cultured enough to be able to look with suspicion upon culture at first, not second hand."

Cultural, Culture, First, Man, Suspicion

10

Create Your Own Wallpaper

Standard

Customized

"A man should be just cultured enough to be able to look with suspicion upon culture at first, not second hand."

Exlpore more Cultural quotes

"The relentless pressures of the so-called marketplace have distorted all our culture industries."

Mark Crispin Miller, American Journalist

Cultural, Culture

"It is not part of a true culture to tame tigers, any more than it is to make sheep ferocious."

Henry David Thoreau, American Author

Cultural, Culture, Sheep

"The Mind that lies fallow but a single Day, sprouts up in Follies that are only to be killed by a constant and assiduous Culture."

Joseph Addison, English Writer

Cultural, Culture, Day, Lies, Mind

"Culture is a way of coping with the world by defining it in detail."

Malcolm Bradbury, English Novelist

Cultural, Culture, Detail, World

"Hatred is something peculiar. You will always find it strongest and most violent where there is the lowest degree of culture."

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, German Poet

Cultural, Culture, Hatred, Will

"They can do without architecture who have no olives nor wines in the cellar."

Henry David Thoreau, American Author

Cultural, Architecture

"There are things in American culture that want to wipe the class distinction. Blue jeans. Ready-made clothes. Coca-Cola."

Leslie Fiedler, American Critic

Cultural, Class, Clothes, Culture

"Americans like the British kind of quirkiness and the strange accent. They find it kind of cute or something, with a certain charm."

Nick Park, British Director

Cultural, Americans, Charm, Cute

"What becomes fascinating is the way the culture industry doesn't deny it and doesn't try to mitigate it, but tries to sell its products as a way of liberating oneself."

Thomas Frank, American Author

Cultural, Culture

"The cornerstone of the political correctness that dominates campus culture is radical feminism."

Phyllis Schlafly, American Activist

Cultural, Culture, Feminism, Radical

Explore more quotes by Samuel Butler

"It is seldom very hard to do one's duty when one knows what it is, but it is often exceedingly difficult to find this out."

Duty

"The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously."

Conviction

"A hen is only an egg's way of making another egg."

Biology

"When you have told anyone you have left him a legacy the only decent thing to do is to die at once."

Etiquette

"Logic is like the sword - those who appeal to it, shall perish by it."

Reasoning

"Though analogy is often misleading, it is the least misleading thing we have."

Reasoning

"Evil is like water, it abounds, is cheap, soon fouls, but runs itself clear of taint."

Evil

"God cannot alter the past, though historians can."

God

"Do not be anxious about tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Let the day's own trouble be sufficient for the day."

Lifestyle

"Christ was only crucified once and for a few hours. Think of the hundreds of thousands whom Christ has been crucifying in a quiet way ever since."

Christian