U.G. Krishnamurti Quotes About Culture

Quotes about: Culture

• Nature is busy creating absolutely unique individuals, whereas culture has invented a single mold to which all must conform. It is grotesque.

  U.G. Krishnamurti

  Unique, Creating, Mold

  "Mind is a Myth: Disquieting Conversations with the Man Called U.G". Book by U.G. Krishnamurti, 1987.

• Society has put before you the ideal of a 'perfect man'. No matter in which culture you were born, you have scriptural doctrines and traditions handed down to you to tell you how to behave. You are told that through due practice you can even eventually come into the state attained by the sages, saints and saviors of mankind. And so you try to control your behavior, to control your thoughts, to be something unnatural.

  U.G. Krishnamurti

  Men, Practice, Perfect

• Society or culture or whatever you might want to call it, has created us all solely and wholly for the purpose of maintaining its continuity and status quo.

  U.G. Krishnamurti

  Culture, Purpose, Want

  "Thought is Your Enemy: Mind-shattering Conversations with the Man Called U.G". Book by U.G. Krishnamurti, 1990.

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