Culture Quotes - Page 10

• 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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• The Law of Raspberry Jam: the wider any culture is spread, the thinner it gets.

  Alvin Toffler

  Law, Jam, Raspberries

  "Forbes Book of Quotations: 10,000 Thoughts on the Business of Life". Book edited by Ted Goodman, 2016.

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• Many-sidedness of culture makes our vision clearer and keener in particulars.

  James Russell Lowell

  Vision

  James Russell Lowell (1904). “Literary and political addresses”

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• One of the surest signs of the Philistine is his reverence for the superior tastes of those who put him down.

  Pauline Kael

  Taste, Reverence, Philistines

  pauline kael (1965). “i lost it at the movies”

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• Moral values, and a culture and a religion, maintaining these values are far better than laws and regulations.

  Sivananda

  Law, Religion, Regulation

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• We become not a melting pot but a beautiful mosaic. Different people, different beliefs, different yearnings, different hopes, different dreams.

  Jimmy Carter

  Beautiful, Dream, America

  Speech, Pittsburgh, Pa., 27 Oct. 1976

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• The world in which you were born is just one model of reality. Other cultures are not failed attempts at being you; they are unique manifestations of the human spirit.

  Wade Davis

  Inspirational, Spiritual, Unique

  "The Wayfinders: Why Ancient Wisdom Matters in the Modern World". Book by Wade Davis, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 1, 2009.

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• I think it was when I was nineteen, by that time the Jewish laws were already in force and the split was beginning to come about which isolated the Jewish culture.

  Gyorgy Ligeti

  Thinking, Law, Nineteen

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• A poor thing, perhaps, but my own.

  William Shakespeare

  Poor, My Own

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• I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Travel, Inspirational Life, Moving

  Travels with a Donkey "Cheylard and Luc" (1879)

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• Design is both a political and cultural force for change, although most designers choose not to think about the power it has.

  Jonathan Barnbrook

  Change, Power, Thinking

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• Every aspect of Western culture needs a new code of ethics - a rational ethics - as a precondition of rebirth.

  Ayn Rand

  Western Culture, Needs, Code Of Ethics

  Ayn Rand (1999). “Ayn Rand Reader”, p.413, Penguin

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• Culture, the acquainting ourselves with the best that has been known and said in the world, and thus with the history of the human spirit.

  Matthew Arnold

  Dance, History, Art And Culture

  'Literature and Dogma' (1873) preface

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• 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.

  Jean Baudrillard

  Technology, Space, People

  Jean Baudrillard, Francesco Proto, Keith Broadfoot (2006). “Mass Identity Architecture: Architectural Writings of Jean Baudrillard”, Academy Press

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• When I hear the word 'culture', I reach for my checkbook.

  Edward Abbey

  Goering, Revolver, Gun Culture

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.10, RosettaBooks

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• General jackdaw culture, very little more than a collection of charming miscomprehensions, untargeted enthusiasms, and a general habit of skimming.

  William Bolitho

  Society, Littles, Enthusiasm

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• ...Any authentic creation is a gift to the future.

  Albert Camus

  Art, Creation, Sisyphus

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

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• The culture industry not so much adapts to the reactions of its customers as it counterfeits them.

  Theodor Adorno

  Stupidity, Reactions, Uncommitted

  Theodor Adorno, Richard Leppert, Susan H. Gillespie (2002). “Essays on Music”, p.46, Univ of California Press

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• If you see in any given situation only what everybody else can see, you can be said to be so much a representative of your culture that you are a victim of it.

  S. I. Hayakawa

  Work, Creativity, Ideas

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• No people come into possession of a culture without having paid a heavy price for it.

  James A. Baldwin

  People, Literature, Heavy

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• In our culture we have such respect for musical instruments, they are like part of God.

  Ravi Shankar

  Respect, Musical, Instruments

  "Ravi Shankar Dead: Indian Sitar Virtuoso Dies At 92". www.huffingtonpost.com. December 12, 2012.

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• Culture clash is terrific drama.

  Ken Follett

  Drama, Clash, Terrific

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• Writing was a political act and poetry was a cultural weapon.

  Linton Kwesi Johnson

  Writing, Poetry, Political

  "I did my own thing". Interview With Nicholas Wroe, www.theguardian.com. March 8, 2008.

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• Black women have been cultured to compare not connect.

  Michaela Angela Davis

  Women, African American, Black

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• For me fashion is an expression of art that is very closely related both to me and to my body. I see it as an expression of identity combined with desire, moods and a cultural setting.

  Iris van Herpen

  Fashion, Art, Expression

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