Culture Quotes

• A people without the knowledge of their past history, origin and culture is like a tree without roots.

  Marcus Garvey

  Love, Friendship, Relationship

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• Culture means control over nature.

  Johan Huizinga

  Nature, Mean

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• Culture (science) is the form of religion; Religion is the substance of culture (science).

  Paul Tillich

  Science, Religion, Substance

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• Culture is a product of law. And laws create norms for society. This is why anyone who wants to change the culture of a country must try to change the norms of the country.

  Myles Munroe

  Country, Law, Trying

  Source: encomium.ng

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• Culture is to know the best that has been said and thought in the world.

  Matthew Arnold

  World, Said, Knows

  Attributed to Matthew Arnold's "Literature and Dogma". "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations", pp. 216-218, 1922.

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• Cultural differences should not separate us from each other, but rather cultural diversity brings a collective strength that can benefit all of humanity." Also: "Intercultural dialogue is the best guarantee of a more peaceful, just and sustainable world.

  Robert Alan Aurthur

  Strength, Peace, Differences

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• Culture is simply the hospitality of the intellect. Your mind is open to new ideas and larger views; when they enter, you know how to receive them, and to entertain, to be entertained, and take what they have to offer without allowing them to dominate you.

  Tom Kettle

  Views, Ideas, Mind

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• Culture is the arts elevated to a set of beliefs.

  Thomas Wolfe

  Art, Art And Culture, Belief

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• What most people in our culture mean by being lovable is essentially a mixture between being popular and having sex appeal.

  Erich Fromm

  Sex, Mean, People

  Erich Fromm (2000). “The Art of Loving: The Centennial Edition”, p.2, A&C Black

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• Modern culture is constantly growing more objective. Its tissues grow more and more out of impersonal energies, and absorb less and less the subjective entirety of the individual.

  Georg Simmel

  Subjectivity, Energy, Tissues

  Georg Simmel (2008). “Englischsprachige Veröffentlichungen: 1893 - 1910”

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• Culture is both an intellectual phenomenon and a moral one

  Matthew Arnold

  Intellectual, Moral, Phenomenon

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• A culture is made — or destroyed — by its articulate voices.

  Ayn Rand

  Voice, Made, Destroyed

  Ayn Rand (1990). “The Voice of Reason: Essays in Objectivist Thought”, p.175, Penguin

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• If we desire peace, we must prepare for peace. The most important thing is to build a culture of peace.

  Anwarul Karim Chowdhury

  Peace, Important, Desire

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• The moment you give up your principles, and your values, you are dead, your culture is dead, your civilization is dead. Period.

  Oriana Fallaci

  Giving Up, Civilization, Dying

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• If your culture doesn't like geeks, you are in real trouble.

  Bill Gates

  Real, Geek, Trouble

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• Culture: the cry of men in face of their destiny.

  Albert Camus

  Destiny, Men, Faces

  Albert Camus (1963). “Carnets: 1935-1942”

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• The ideas of the ruling class are in every epoch the ruling ideas, i.e., the class which is the ruling material force of society, is at the same time its ruling intellectual force.

  Karl Marx

  Class, Ideas, Intellectual

  Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels (1970). “The German Ideology”, p.64, INTERNATIONAL PUBLISHERS CO

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• Culture is the tacit agreement to let the means of subsistence disappear behind the purpose of existence.

  Karl Kraus

  Mean, Agreement, Civilization

  "In these great times" by Karl Kraus, translated by Harry Zohn, Montreal, pp. 73-74, ("In these great times"), 1976.

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• A culture disconnected from wild nature becomes insane.

  Toby Hemenway

  Insane, Disconnected

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• Men of culture are the true apostles of equality

  Matthew Arnold

  Men, Apostles

  'Culture and Anarchy' (1869) ch. 1

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• Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.

  Nelson Mandela

  Inspirational, Change, Inspiring

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• The first principle of modern cultures may be their connectedness. Culture is like wind and wind knows no boundary or center. Once there is a center, wind becomes a whirlwind.

  Mu Xin

  Wind, Principles, May

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• If the culture doesn't work, don't buy it.

  Morrie Schwartz

  Ifs

  "Tuesdays with Morrie". Book by Mitch Albom, 1997.

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  Preservation of one's own culture does not require contempt or disrespect for other cultures.

  Cesar Chavez

  Other Cultures, Diversity, Disrespect

  Cesar Chavez (2008). “An Organizer's Tale: Speeches”, p.352, Penguin

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• Every man's ability may be strengthened or increased by culture.

  John Abbott

  Men, Art And Culture, May

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