culture quotes

• I believe that in a great city, or even in a small city or a village, a great theater is the outward and visible sign of an inward and probable culture. (Laurence Olivier) [culture]
• Russia is a part of European culture. Therefore, it is with difficulty that I imagine NATO as an enemy. (Vladimir Putin) [culture]
• Never tire yourself more than necessary, even if you have to found a culture on the fatigue of your bones. (Antonin Artaud) [more/culture/fatigue]
• It is a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more money writing or talking about his art than he can by practicing it. (Wystan Auden) [culture/more/money/art]
• The bastard form of mass culture is humiliated repetition... always new books, new programs, new films, news items, but always the same meaning. (Roland Barthes) [form/culture/repetition/books]
• As the end of the century approaches, all our culture is like the culture of flies at the beginning of winter. Having lost their agility, dreamy and demented, they turn slowly about the window in the first icy mists of morning. They give themselves a last wash and brush-up, their oscillated eyes roll, and they fall down the curtains. (Jean Baudrillard) [start/culture/culture/agility]
• That is true culture which helps us to work for the social betterment of all. (Henry Ward Beecher) [culture]
• Does there, I wonder, exist a being who has read all, or approximately all, that the person of average culture is supposed to have read, and that not to have read is a social sin? If such a being does exist, surely he is an old, a very old man. (Arnold Bennett) [wonder/being/culture/being]
• A man should be just cultured enough to be able to look with suspicion upon culture at first, not second hand. (Samuel Butler) [look/culture]
• It is better to make a piece of music than to perform one, better to perform one than to listen to one, better to listen to one than to misuse it as a means of distraction, entertainment, or acquisition of culture. (John Cage) [music/culture]
• Culture: the cry of men in face of their destiny. (Albert Camus) [culture/men/face]
• 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) [culture/society/perfect/creation]
• Culture is the process by which a person becomes all that they were created capable of being. (Thomas Carlyle) [culture/process/being]
• When nature exceeds culture, we have the rustic. When culture exceeds nature then we the pedant. ( Confucius) [nature/culture/culture/nature]
• What culture lacks is the taste for anonymous, innumerable germination. Culture is smitten with counting and measuring; it feels out of place and uncomfortable with the innumerable; its efforts tend, on the contrary, to limit the numbers in all domains; it tries to count on its fingers. (Jean Dubuffet) [culture/taste/anonymous/culture]
• Culture is one thing and varnish is another. (Ralph Waldo Emerson) [culture/thing]
• It the proof of high culture to say the greatest matters in the simplest way. (Ralph Waldo Emerson) [high/culture]
• The tendency of aggression is an innate, independent, instinctual disposition in man... it constitutes the most powerful obstacle to culture. (Sigmund Freud) [aggression/culture]
• Culture of the mind must be subservient to the heart. (Mahatma Gandhi) [culture/mind]
• No culture can live if it attempts to be exclusive. (Mahatma Gandhi) [culture]
• Culture is a sham if it is only a sort of Gothic front put on an iron building -- like Tower Bridge -- or a classical front put on a steel frame -- like the Daily Telegraph building in Fleet Street. Culture, if it is to be a real thing and a holy thing, must be the product of what we actually do for a living -- not something added, like sugar on a pill. (Eric Gill) [culture/culture/thing/thing]
• Whenever I hear the word culture, I reach for my revolver. (Hermann Goering) [culture/reach]
• Every age, every culture, every custom and tradition has its own character, its own weakness and its own strength, its beauties and cruelties; it accepts certain sufferings as matters of course, puts up patiently with certain evils. Human life is reduced to real suffering, to hell, only when two ages, two cultures and religions overlap. (Hermann Hesse) [age/culture/tradition/character]
• If it were not for the intellectual snobs who pay -- in solid cash -- the tribute which philistinism owes to culture, the arts would perish with their starving practitioners. Let us thank heaven for hypocrisy. (Aldous Leonard Huxley) [culture]
• I believe that in the history of art and of thought there has always been at every living moment of culture a will to renewal. This is not the prerogative of the last decade only. All history is nothing but a succession of crises -- of rupture, repudiation and resistance. When there is no crisis, there is stagnation, petrifaction and death. All thought, all art is aggressive. (Eugene Ionesco) [art/moment/culture/willpower]
• No occupation is so delightful to me as the culture of the earth, and no culture comparable to that of the garden. (Thomas Jefferson) [culture/culture/garden]
• If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to follow his vision wherever it takes him. (John F. Kennedy) [art/roots/culture/society]
• Culture is the tacit agreement to let the means of subsistence disappear behind the purpose of existence. Civilization is the subordination of the latter to the former. (Karl Kraus) [culture]
• When a culture feels that its end has come, it sends for a priest. (Karl Kraus) [culture/start]
• 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) [culture/people/thoughts/books]
• 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) [culture/human/human/willpower]

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