Quotes on Culture

Only faith in Christ gives rise to a culture contrary to egotism and death.

The religious persecution of the ages has been done under what was claimed to be the command of God.

The rich diversity of the world's cultures reflects a corresponding diversity in the wilds that gave them birth.

Our ambitions are bold and so must be our desire to change and evolve our culture.

Trust is the glue in relationships and organizations

Money alone isn't enough to bring happiness... happiness is when you're actually truly ok with losing everything you have.

Principles are the basis for developing a vision and value system for all.

Peace is not unity in similarity but unity in diversity, in the comparison and conciliation of differences.

Two half-truths do not make a truth, and two half- cultures do not make a culture

The whole history of civilization is strewn with creeds and institutions which were invaluable at first, and deadly afterwards

Ours is a culture based on excess, on overproduction; the result is a steady loss of sharpness in our sensory experience. All the conditions of modern life - its material plenitude, its sheer crowdedness - conjoin to dull our sensory faculties

Greece appears to be the fountain of knowledge; Rome of elegance

The key to community is the acceptance, in fact the celebration of our individual and cultural differences. It is also the key to world peace

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

Culture is the sum of all the forms of art, of love, and of thought, which, in the coarse or centuries, have enabled man to be less enslaved

For the rest, whatever we have got has been by infinite labor, and search, and ranging through every corner of nature; the difference is that instead of dirt and poison, we have rather chosen to fill our hives with honey and wax, thus furnishing mankind with the two noblest of things, which are sweetness and light.

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

Mrs. Ballinger is one of the ladies who pursue Culture in bands, as though it were dangerous to meet it alone.

Culture is one thing and varnish is another.

Here in the U.S., culture is not that delicious panacea which we Europeans consume in a sacramental mental space and which has its own special columns in the newspapers - and in people's minds. Culture is space, speed, cinema, technology. This culture is authentic, if anything can be said to be authentic.

Culture is a matrix of infinite possibilities and choices. From within the same culture matrix we can extract arguments and strategies for the degradation and ennoblement of our species, for its enslavement or liberation, for the suppression of its productive potential or its enhancement.