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title: "19 National culture Quotes by 19 authors"
description: "Browse 19 National culture quotes by 19 authors. Discover the best National culture sayings and thoughts."
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> [A national culture, if it is to flourish, should be a constellation of cultures, the constitutes of which, benefiting each other, benefit…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/t-s-eliot/a-national-culture-if-it-is-to-flourish-should-be-a-constellation-of/)

[T. S. Eliot](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/t-s-eliot/)

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> [Anyway, culture and nation are partners, inextricable from each other. National culture and nation, they are reciprocities.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-mcmorris/anyway-culture-and-nation-are-partners-inextricable-from-each-other/)

[Mark McMorris](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-mcmorris/)

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> [The intensity of a national culture should be represented by... the general education level and... the exceptional merit of a small elite…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-sarton/the-intensity-of-a-national-culture-should-be-represented-by-the/)

[George Sarton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-sarton/)

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> [Why don't we have a national culture? Because we have a all cultures. America has its fingertips into everything, and so does…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/everlast/why-don-t-we-have-a-national-culture-because-we-have-a-all-cultures/)

[Everlast](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/everlast/)

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> [Civil religion gives American culture its direction and defines its fundamental values, but it does not determine the diversified contents of American…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edward-hirsch/civil-religion-gives-american-culture-its-direction-and-defines-its/)

[Edward Hirsch](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edward-hirsch/)

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> [One that actually relates to all Latin American literature: that is, not every author is interested in being a representative of his…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/adam-morris/one-that-actually-relates-to-all-latin-american-literature-that-is/)

[Adam Morris](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/adam-morris/)

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> [America is the sum of all our journeys as we search for our national community and our national culture.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-tsongas/america-is-the-sum-of-all-our-journeys-as-we-search-for-our-national/)

[Paul Tsongas](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paul-tsongas/)

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> [We should see to it that our people are steeped in a real knowledge and understanding of our national culture.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/margaret-thatcher/we-should-see-to-it-that-our-people-are-steeped-in-a-real-knowledge/)

[Margaret Thatcher](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/margaret-thatcher/)

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> [We make our own criminals, and their crimes are congruent with the national culture we all share. It has been said that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/margaret-mead/we-make-our-own-criminals-and-their-crimes-are-congruent-with-the/)

[Margaret Mead](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/margaret-mead/)

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> [If all our political and intellectual elite offers by way of a national culture is "pop music, gambling, fashionable clothes or television,"…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anthony-daniels/if-all-our-political-and-intellectual-elite-offers-by-way-of-a/)

[Anthony Daniels](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anthony-daniels/)

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> [There is in our society a gulf opening up, a kind of cultural apartheid, between those who are brought up to feel…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-eyre/there-is-in-our-society-a-gulf-opening-up-a-kind-of-cultural/)

[Richard Eyre](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-eyre/)

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> [The decline of true taste for food is the beginning of a decline in a national culture as a whole. When people…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-graves/the-decline-of-true-taste-for-food-is-the-beginning-of-a-decline-in-a/)

[Robert Graves](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-graves/)

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> [Poetry is often very critical of the culture from which it emerges. Quite often literary critics of a nationalist bent talk up…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edna-longley/poetry-is-often-very-critical-of-the-culture-from-which-it-emerges/)

[Edna Longley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edna-longley/)

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> [The role of globalization is to homogenize all cultures, and to turn them into commodified markets, and therefore, to make them easier…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jerry-mander/the-role-of-globalization-is-to-homogenize-all-cultures-and-to-turn/)

[Jerry Mander](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jerry-mander/)

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> [I am very grateful that the Russian budget has a yearly budget for film. And usually this budget goes to "auteur" cinema,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ivan-tverdovsky/i-am-very-grateful-that-the-russian-budget-has-a-yearly-budget-for/)

[Ivan Tverdovsky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ivan-tverdovsky/)

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> [We know that art is connected with the land, with its salt, with its smell, that outside of national culture there is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ilya-ehrenburg/we-know-that-art-is-connected-with-the-land-with-its-salt-with-its/)

[Ilya Ehrenburg](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ilya-ehrenburg/)

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> [With calm, knowledgeable precision, Daniel Ziblatt wades into the adjacent swamps of federalism and nineteenth-century European history, emerging with hands full of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-tilly/with-calm-knowledgeable-precision-daniel-ziblatt-wades-into-the/)

[Charles Tilly](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-tilly/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ce0/charles-tilly-47605_analysis_with-calm-knowledgeable-precision-daniel_2643713.jpg)

> [From blood banking to the modern subway, from jazz to social justice, the contributions of African Americans have shaped and molded and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bill-frist/from-blood-banking-to-the-modern-subway-from-jazz-to-social-justice/)

[Bill Frist](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bill-frist/)

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> [ While \[European\] national cultures were concocted to distinguish one economic unit of capital from another, civilizational thinking was invented to unify these… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hamid-dabashi/while-european-national-cultures-were-concocted-to-distinguish-one/)

[Hamid Dabashi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hamid-dabashi/)

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                        "text": "With calm, knowledgeable precision, Daniel Ziblatt wades into the adjacent swamps of federalism and nineteenth-century European history, emerging with hands full of gems. Beneath the tangle of great statesmen and national culture he discovers conflicting regional political interests, sharp regional variations in political capacity, fearful defenses against excessive democracy, coercive conquest of weak states, and unintended consequences galore. Read, think, and learn.",
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                        "text": "From blood banking to the modern subway, from jazz to social justice, the contributions of African Americans have shaped and molded and influenced our national culture and our national character.",
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