Culture Quotes - Page 2

• A nation's culture resides in the hearts and in the soul of its people.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  Mahatma Gandhi (1968). “The Selected Works of Mahatma Gandhi: The voice of truth”

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• Without culture, and the relative freedom it implies, society, even when perfect, is but a jungle. This is why any authentic creation is a gift to the future.

  Albert Camus

  Future, Perfect, Art And Culture

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays”, p.212, Vintage

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• How do you make any sense of history, art or literature without knowing the stories and iconography of your own culture and all the world's main religions?

  Polly Toynbee

  Art, Knowing, Iconography

  "This is a clash of civilisations - between reason and superstition" by Polly Toynbee, www.theguardian.com. April 13, 2006.

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• Culture is one thing and varnish is another.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Other Cultures, One Thing

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2014). “The Heart of Emerson's Journals”, p.324, Courier Corporation

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• The best thing a man can do for his culture when he is rich is to endeavor to carry out those schemes which he entertained when he was poor

  Henry David Thoreau

  Men, Rich, Poor

  Henry David Thoreau (2004). “Walden and Civil Disobedience”, p.375, Simon and Schuster

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• I do not want my house to be walled in on all sides and my windows to be stuffed. I want the culture of all lands to be blown about my house as freely as possible. But I refuse to be blown off my feet by any

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Freedom, Land, Feet

  Mahatma Gandhi (1980). “All Men are Brothers: Autobiographical Reflections”, p.142, A&C Black

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• The love of one's country is a splendid thing. But why should love stop at the border?

  Pablo Casals

  Inspirational, Spiritual, Country

  "Joys and Sorrows : Reflections‎ by Pablo Casals as told to Albert E. Kahn". Book by Albert E. Kahn, 1974.

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• As the soil, however rich it may be, cannot be productive without cultivation, so the mind without culture can never produce good fruit

  Seneca the Younger

  Mind, May, Soil

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• The foundation of culture, as of character, is at last the moral sentiment.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Character, Foundation, Lasts

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2630, Delphi Classics

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• If we are to achieve a richer culture, rich in contrasting values, we must recognize the whole gamut of human potentialities, and so weave a less arbitrary social fabric, one in which each diverse human gift will find a fitting place.

  Margaret Mead

  Women, History, Diversity

  Sex and Temperament in Three Primitive Societies conclusion (1935)

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• In studying other cultures, we learn more about ourselves and our relationship to all things in this world.

  Eustace Conway

  Other Cultures, World, Study

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• Culture implies all which gives the mind possession of its own powers, as languages to the critic, telescope to the astronomer. Culture alters the political status of an individual. It raises a rival royalty in a monarchy. 'Tis king against king. It is ever a romance of history in all dynasties--the co-presence of the revolutionary force in intellect. It creates a personal independence which the monarch cannot look down, and to which he must often succumb.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Kings, Giving, Romance

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• Culture is the widening of the mind and of the spirit.

  Jawaharlal Nehru

  Mind, Spirit, Social Justice

  Jawaharlal Nehru (1963). “Jawaharlal Nehru's Speeches”

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• Culture is the name for what people are interested in, their thoughts, their models, the books they read and the speeches they hear, their table-talk, gossip, controversies, historical sense and scientific training, the values they appreciate, the quality of life they admire. All communities have a culture. It is the climate of their civilization.

  Walter Lippmann

  Book, Civilization, Names

  Walter Lippmann, Clinton Rossiter, James Lare (1982). “The Essential Lippmann: A Political Philosophy for Liberal Democracy”, p.385, Harvard University Press

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• Whoever controls the media, the images, controls the culture.

  Allen Ginsberg

  Media, Art And Culture, Literature

  "Brain Power: Learn to Improve Your Thinking Skills". Book by Karl Albrecht, p. 6, 1979.

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• We may have different religions, different languages, different colored skin, but we all belong to one human race.

  Kofi Annan

  Acceptance, Race, Skin Color

  Twitter post from Sep 03, 2016

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• That vision of a common culture is now simply a remote wistfulness.

  Dennis Potter

  Vision, Common, Wistfulness

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• Whenever I hear the word culture, I reach for my revolver

  Hermann Goring

  Goering, Revolver, Gun Culture

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• We need to have a culture that says 'the less energy you can use to be comfortable, the better off you are and the better you should feel about yourself'.

  Roscoe Bartlett

  Energy, Needs, Use

  "Interview with Roscoe Bartlett on Peak Oil". Interview with David Room, www.resilience.org. May 3, 2005.

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• And yet, in a culture like ours, which is given to material comforts, and addicted to forms of entertainment that offer immediate gratification, it is surprising that so much poetry is written.

  Mark Strand

  Comfort, Entertainment, Form

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• Every band I’ve worked with also wants to be countercultural in the sense that they want to feel that they’ve gone somewhere that nobody else has been.

  Brian Eno

  Gone, Band, Want

  "The 77 Million Faces of Brian Eno". Interview with Andrew Marantz, www.motherjones.com. November 12, 2012.

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• High culture always isolates, always drives men out of their class, and makes it more difficult for them to share naturally and easily the common class-life around them. They seek the few companions who can understand them, and when these are not to be had within a traversable distance, they sit and work alone.

  Philip Gilbert Hamerton

  Distance, Men, Class

  Philip Gilbert Hamerton (1873). “The Intellectual Life: With a portrait of Leonardo da Vinci, etched by Leopold Flameng”, p.328

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• Liberate yourself from the illusion of culture.
  Take responsibility for what you think and what you do.

  Terence McKenna

  Responsibility, Thinking, Illusion

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• Peace is a culture that we create by putting it in the curriculum for young people, through creating this next generation where young people get a chance to go across borders, across cultures, to learn more about each other's life, to create a global community, learn about opportunities for helping others. It's investing in peace and tolerance training, ending the gap between rich and poor.

  Craig Kielburger

  Educational, Helping Others, Opportunity

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• I think it talks about that there needs to be some proactive attack against drugs infiltrating our culture.

  Joe Morton

  Thinking, Drug, Needs

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