Culture Quotes

• 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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• A people without the knowledge of their past history, origin and culture is like a tree without roots.

  Marcus Garvey

  Love, Friendship, Relationship

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  If there is no struggle, there is no progress.

  Frederick Douglass

  Inspirational, Change, Moving On

  Speech, Canandaigua, N.Y., 4 Aug. 1857

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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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• Change before you have to.

  Jack Welch

  Life, Motivational, Change

  Jack Welch, Janet Lowe (2007). “Jack Welch Speaks: Wit and Wisdom from the World's Greatest Business Leader”, John Wiley & Sons

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• Culture is the habit of being pleased with the best and knowing why.

  Henry Van Dyke

  Knowing, Art And Culture, Habit

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• 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

  Andre Malraux

  Art, Men, Century

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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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• No culture can live if it attempts to be exclusive.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Leadership, Teacher, Art And Culture

  Mahatma Gandhi (1959). “India of My Dreams”, p.173, Rajpal & Sons

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• Language is the road map of a culture. It tells you where its people come from and where they are going.

  Rita Mae Brown

  Inspiration, Learning, People

  Rita Mae Brown (2011). “Starting from Scratch: A Different Kind of Writers' Manual”, p.47, Bantam

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• Listen: our culture is saturated with irony whether we know it or not.

  Barbara Kruger

  Artist, Irony, Knows

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• Culture's worth huge, huge risks. Without culture we're all totalitarian beasts.

  Norman Mailer

  Risk, Beast, Huge

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• The first step - especially for young people with energy and drive and talent, but not money - the first step to controlling your world is to control your culture. To model and demonstrate the kind of world you demand to live in. To write the books. Make the music. Shoot the films. Paint the art.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Music, Art, Book

  Closing remarks at an eClass forum in Barnes & Noble University, December 05, 2004.

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• 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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• You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.

  Ray Bradbury

  Inspirational, Life, Struggle

  FaceBook post by Ray Bradbury from Dec 08, 2014

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• Culture is like wealth; it makes us more ourselves, it enables us to express ourselves

  Philip Gilbert Hamerton

  Wealth

  Philip Gilbert Hamerton (1886). “Human Intercourse”

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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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• Human diversity makes tolerance more than a virtue; it makes it a requirement for survival.

  Rene Dubos

  Differences, Diversity, Tolerance

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• War is not inherent in human beings. We learn war and we learn peace. The culture of peace is something which is learned, just as violence is learned and war culture is learned.

  Elise M. Boulding

  Peace, War, Learning

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• I believe that a culture of peace must be the essential foundation of our efforts for peace.

  Daisaku Ikeda

  Believe, Effort, Foundation

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• The trick of making movies in this culture is how to not give up everything that makes them worthwhile in order to get them made - and that's a tricky balance.

  Alex Winter

  Movie, Giving Up, Order

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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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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• Culture looks beyond machinery, culture hates hatred; culture has one great passion--the passion for sweetness and light. It has one even yet greater, the passion for making them all prevail. It is not satisfied till we all come to a perfect man; it knows that the sweetness and light of the few must be imperfect until the raw and unkindly masses of humanity are touched with sweetness and light.

  Matthew Arnold

  Hate, Passion, Men

  Matthew Arnold (2013). “Delphi Complete Poetical Works of Matthew Arnold (Illustrated)”, p.790, Delphi Classics

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• 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

  M. Scott Peck

  Acceptance, Keys, Differences

  M. Scott Peck (2010). “The Different Drum: Community Making and Peace”, p.186, Simon and Schuster

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• The only thing of real importance that leader do is to create and manage culture

  Edgar Schein

  Real, Leader, Importance

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