Culture Quotes - Page 12

• The highest possible stage in moral culture is when we recognize that we ought to control our thoughts.

  Charles Darwin

  Inspirational, Love Life, Hypnosis

  'The Descent of Man' (1871) ch. 4

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• In the latter half of the last century the impact of the expanding influence of Western culture and economic system brought about in China a severe conflict.

  Chen-Ning Yang

  Impact, Western Culture, Half

  Chen Ning Yang (2005). “Selected Papers, 1945-1980, with Commentary”, p.247, World Scientific

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• Everything the Beats stood for was the opposite of the dominant culture today.

  Lawrence Ferlinghetti

  Opposites, Today, Beats

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• Culture, then, is a study of perfection, and perfection which insists on becoming something rather than in having something, in an inward condition of the mind and spirit, not in an outward set of circumstances.

  Matthew Arnold

  Perfection, Mind, Becoming

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• Steve Jobs was a great friend as well as a trusted advisor. His legacy will extend far beyond the products he created or the businesses he built. It will be the millions of people he inspired, the lives he changed, and the culture he defined.

  Bob Iger

  Jobs, People, Legacy

  "Colleagues, friends react to Steve Jobs' death, www.cnn.com. October 5, 2011.

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• Culture means the perfect and equal development of man on all sides.

  John Burroughs

  Mean, Men, Perfect

  John Burroughs (1905). “The Writings of John Burroughs: I-[XV] ...”

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• I mention my age because I find people in this country - women, not men, of course - women are so troubled by their age. There's a culture of youth, and it's a phony culture.

  Teresa Heinz

  Country, Men, People

  "The real running mates". Interview with Pablo Martinez Monsivais, usatoday30.usatoday.com. October 19, 2004.

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• An aristocratic culture does not advertise its emotions. In its forms of expression it is sober and reserved. Its general attitude is stoic.

  Johan Huizinga

  Attitude, Sober Up, Expression

  Johan Huizinga (2014). “Men and Ideas: History, the Middle Ages, the Renaissance”, p.47, Princeton University Press

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• The mission of the press is to spread culture while destroying the attention span.

  Karl Kraus

  Attention, Literature, Destroying

  Karl Kraus, Jonathan McVity (2001). “Dicta and Contradicta”, p.50, University of Illinois Press

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• I think that one possible definition of our modern culture is that it is one in which nine-tenths of our intellectuals can't read any poetry.

  Randall Jarrell

  Thinking, Definitions, Nine

  "Peter's Quotations: Ideas for Our Times" by Laurence J. Peter, (p. 391), 1993.

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  The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.

  Marcel Proust

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

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• I think that New York is not the cultural centre of America, but the business and administrative centre of American culture.

  Saul Bellow

  New York, Thinking, America

  1969 In radio interview, reported in The Listener, 22 May.

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• I think in Atlantic Canada, because of what happened in the decades following Confederation, there is a culture of defeat that we have to overcome.

  Stephen Harper

  Thinking, Overcoming, Canada

  "New Brunswick Telegraph Journal", May 29, 2002.

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• When we create out of our experiences, as feminists of color, women of color, we have to develop those structures that will present and circulate our culture.

  Audre Lorde

  Color, Feminist, Literature

  Audre Lorde, Joan Wylie Hall (2004). “Conversations with Audre Lorde”, p.130, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• The chief function of the city is to convert power into form, energy into culture, dead matter into the living symbols of art, biological reproduction into social creativity.

  Lewis Mumford

  Art, Creativity, Cities

  "The City in History". Book by Lewis Mumford. Chapter 18, 1961.

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• We have the ability to achieve, if we master the necessary goodwill, a common global society blessed with a shared culture of peace that is nourished by the ethnic, national and local diversities that enrich our lives.

  Mahnaz Afkhami

  Peace, Blessed, Diversity

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• What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions. Life is plurality, death is uniformity. By suppressing differences and pecularities, by eliminating different civilizations and cultures, progress weakens life and favors death. The ideal of a single civilization for everyone, implicit in the cult of progress and technique, impoverishes and mutilates us. Every view of the world that becomes extinct, every culture that disappears, diminishes a possibility of life

  Octavio Paz

  Views, Civilization, Differences

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• We also have a cultural phenomenon: the emergence of a global culture, or of cultural globalization

  Peter L. Berger

  Globalization, Phenomenon, Emergence

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• The return to the Organization of the United States of America, the bearers of a great and diversified democratic culture that has inspired many other peoples.

  Carlo Azeglio Ciampi

  Organization, America, Return

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• It is my hope that as we commemorate Black History Month in the future, we will continue to celebrate the many achievements and rich culture of African-Americans.

  Eliot Engel

  Achievement, Black History, African American

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• A soil, exhausted by the long culture of Pagan empires, was to lie fallow for a still longer period.

  John Lothrop Motley

  Lying, Long, Empires

  John Lothrop Motley (1863). “The Rise of the Dutch Republic: Complete in One Volume”, p.12

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• It is very rare to find ground which produces nothing; if it is not covered with flowers, with fruit trees and grains, it produces briers and pines. It is the same with man; if he is not virtuous, he becomes vicious.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Flower, Men, Tree

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• The great law of culture is, Let each become all that he was created capable of being; expand, if possible, to his full growth; resisting all impediments, casting off all foreign, especially all noxious adhesions, and show himself at length in his own shape and stature be these what they may.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Casting Off, Law, Growth

  Thomas Carlyle (1864). “Critical and Miscellaneous Essays ...”, p.13

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• Journalism combines adventure with culture.

  Oriana Fallaci

  Adventure, Journalism

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• What counts is the cultural level

  Ezra Pound

  Levels

  Ezra Pound (1996). “The Cantos of Ezra Pound”, p.538, New Directions Publishing

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