“Since barbarism has its pleasures it naturally has its apologists.”

“London is a riddle. Paris is an explanation.”

“But maybe they were barbarians. Maybe this is what most barbarians look like. They look like everybody else.”

“Culture is the widening of the mind and of the spirit”

“Company cultures are like country cultures. Never try to change one. Try, instead, to work with what you've got.”

“The customs and fashions of men change like leaves on the bough, some of which go and others come.”

“Culture is the operating system of our society; whether we can solve collective action problems depends on it.”

“National hatred is something peculiar. You will always find it strongest and most violent where there is the lowest degr...”

“In America everything goes and nothing matters, while in Europe nothing goes and everything matters.”

“Custom reconciles us to everything.”

“America is the first culture in jeopardy of amusing itself to death.”

“What is honored in a culture gets cultivated there.”