General jackdaw culture, very little more than a
collection of charming miscomprehensions, untargeted
enthusiasms, and a general habit of skimming.
-- William Bolitho
1890-1930, British
Author
Our
attitude toward our own culture has recently been
characterized by two qualities, braggadocio and
petulance. Braggadocio -- empty boasting of American
power, American virtue, American know-how -- has
dominated our foreign relations now for some
decades. Here at home -- within the family, so to
speak -- our attitude to our culture expresses a
superficially different spirit, the spirit of
petulance. Never before, perhaps, has a culture been
so fragmented into groups, each full of its own
virtue, each annoyed and irritated at the others.
-- Daniel J. Boorstin
1914-, American
Historian
A man
should be just cultured enough to be able to look
with suspicion upon culture at first, not second
hand.
-- Samuel Butler
1612-1680, British
Poet, Satirist
Culture: the cry of men in face of their destiny.
-- Albert Camus
1913-1960, French
Existential Writer
