You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
The religious persecution of the ages has been done under what was claimed to be the command of God. — Susan B. Anthony Copy Share Image
“Do you want to be just another product on the shelf, or do you want to become a meaningful and desired part… — Patrick Hanlon Copy Share Image
Let us join our efforts toward building the unshakable foundations for a culture of peace. — Daisaku Ikeda Copy Share Image
By education I am an Englishman, by views an internationalist, by culture a Muslim and a Hindu only by accident of birth. — Jawaharlal Nehru Copy Share Image
To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization. — Arnold J. Toynbee Copy Share Image
When you die, your culture takes you in, and then, if you've given enough, your place is near the centre. — Robert Bringhurst Copy Share Image
“TV. It’s like if you’re not on it, you don’t exist. The single most pernicious idea in our culture.” — John Sandford Copy Share Image
We're all busy. It's a very fast-paced world. And art - and by that, I mean culture in a wider sense -… — Zoe Leonard Copy Share Image
I am not a "culture critic" because I am not in any way interested in classifying cultural forms. I am a metaphysician,… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
I want to stay in touch with what I have in common with my subjects, with the places where are equally implicated… — John Jeremiah Sullivan Copy Share Image
What I needed and actually need is a discipline of tradition, which is lacking in our civilization. Discipline of tradition and the… — Donovan Copy Share Image
I feel like it has been a journey throughout the years to be accepting of my culture - I always felt different… — Kirstin Maldonado Copy Share Image
There is a simple fix to our excessive meeting culture, but it is not easy to implement. It's one of these things… — Sebastian Thrun Copy Share Image
When I was asked to change Laurel into a Latina for How to Get Away with Murder, I was terrified, because I… — Karla Souza Copy Share Image
With typical arrogance, the Anglos claimed to cherish freedom of speech but failed to recognize this right for anyone but themselves. Where… — James Crawford Copy Share Image
“We come into a world with a history shaped by the subtle dichotomy of culture and ethos, the dynamic forces of ideas… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
“For no medium is excessively dangerous if its users understand what its dangers are. It is not important that those who ask… — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
Next time you open the paper, and you see an intellectual property decision, a telecoms decision, it's not about something small and… — Yochai Benkler Copy Share Image
“Then he asked my age and I asked his. That's the tradition in China. If we know each other's ages we can… — Xiaolu Guo Copy Share Image
I think it's particularly a distinctively American concept that resonates with American culture through biker culture. A motorcycle is an independent thing.… — Ryan Hurst Copy Share Image
Dining out is a vice, a dissipation of spirit punished by remorse. We eat, drink, and talk a little too much, abuse… — Cyril Connolly Copy Share Image
“It is my conviction that, with the spread of true scientific culture, whatever may be the medium, historical, philological, philosophical, or physical,… — Thomas Henry Huxley Copy Share Image
Science works because the phenomenon being described can be relied on to remain the same. Even in quantum physics, where phenomena are… — Julian Baggini Copy Share Image
You must be in tune with the times and prepared to break with tradition. — James Agee Copy Share Image
There's an obsession, within our culture, with the genteel thief. Somebody who commits a crime, but does it in a classy way. — Geoffrey Gray Copy Share Image
“No matter what is happening in the world, I continue to believe in humanity. The power of positive thinking is always enough.” — Britt Skrabanek Copy Share Image
The ideology of hardness and cruelty runs through American culture like an electric current... — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
It's hard for it to make a mark in this city because London has so much culture to offer. — Toby Jones Copy Share Image
A civilization, a culture, cannot survive without passion, cannot be saved without passion. — Oriana Fallaci Copy Share Image
I ask you to write this deeply into your souls . . . the materialistic culture . . . is now on the way to its close. — Rudolf Steiner Copy Share Image
I said I would be part of the solution in Jefferson City, not part of the problem. And I said I'd take… — Josh Hawley Copy Share Image
If your customers have to ask you for it, you haven't been thinking far enough ahead. — Ron Kaufman Copy Share Image
I don't really know much about pirates, or pirate culture. I'd be a contrarian pirate. — Todd Barry Copy Share Image
Beliefs. Once entrenched in a culture, they persist, evolve and diverge, in a manner reminiscent of biological evolution. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Do not, under any circumstances, put this book down and turn on the teevee. The teevee debilitates our culture. — Inga Muscio Copy Share Image
No one gave me a recipe for how to create company culture. I wish I had had one. — Andy Dunn Copy Share Image
It is a bitter-sweet thing, knowing two cultures. Once you leave your birthplace nothing is ever the same. — Sarah Turnbull Copy Share Image
[Gulliver was soon being read] "from the cabinet council to the nursery". — John Gay Copy Share Image
In the modern technoindustrial culture, it is possible to proceed from infancy into senility without ever knowing manhood. — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image