Quotes
Quotes about Culture
You do not know our culture, our ethics, or the unwritten codes that already provide our society more order than could be obtained by any of your impositions.
Culture is one thing and varnish is another.
The end of culture is right living.
No culture can live, if it attempts to be exclusive.
Culture of the mind must be subservient to the heart.
Culture, with us, ends in headache.
That is true culture which helps us to work for the social betterment of all.
Culture is the habit of being pleased with the best and knowing why.
Culture is the widening of the mind and of the spirit.
I bet one legend that keeps recurring throughout history, in every culture, is the story of Popeye.
Culture which smooth the whole world licks, Also unto the devil sticks. [Ger., Auch die Kultur, die alle Welt beleckt, Hat auf den Teufel sich erstreckt.]
Culture is "To know the best that has been said and thought in the world."
Never tire yourself more than necessary, even if you have to found a culture on the fatigue of your bones.
A man can be a hero if he is a scientist, or a soldier, or a drug addict, or a disc jockey, or a crummy mediocre politician. A man can be a hero because he suffers and despairs; or because he thinks logically and analytically; or because he is "sensitive;" or because he is cruel. Wealth establishes a man as a hero, and so does poverty. Virtually any circumstance in a man's life will make him a hero to some group of people and has a mythic rendering in the cultureâin literature, art, theater, or the daily newspapers.
Wit is cultured insolence.
Lanscape shapes culture.
Language is the roadmap of a culture. It tells you where its people came from and where they are going.
Language is power, life and the instrument of culture, the instrument of domination and liberation.
If you do not breathe through writing, if you do not cry out in writing, or sing in writing, then don't write, because our culture has no use for it.
Whoever controls the media - the images - controls the culture.
Whoever controls the media--the images--controls the culture.
Television is the first truly democratic culture, the first culture available to everybody and entirely governed by what the people want. the most terrifying thing is what people do want.
The people who shape our lives and our cultures have the ability to communicate a vision or a quest or a joy or a mission.
Agriculture and Commerce
We cannot live by power, and a culture that seeks to live by it becomes brutal and sterile. But we can die without it.
