Culture Quotes
5094 quotes by 3168 authors
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Culture relates to objects and is a phenomenon of the world; entertainment relates to people and is a phenomenon of life.
— Hannah Arendt
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Democracy arises out of the notion that those who are equal in any respect are equal in all respects; because men are equally free, they…
— Aristotle
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Don't tire yourself more than need be, even at the price of founding a culture on the fatigue of your bones.
— Antonin Artaud
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The test for whether or not you can hold a job should not be the arrangement of your chromosomes.
— Bella Abzug
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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…
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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Violence against women in all its forms is a human rights violation. It's not something that any culture, religion or tradition propagates.
— Michelle Bachelet
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Morals are built on religious faith. Virtue is built on morality and influences a culture.
— Michele Bachmann
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The most certain test by which we judge whether a country is really free is the amount of security enjoyed by minorities.
— Lord Acton
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Well, if you look at all of the cultures in America, this is a great opportunity for us to really get acquainted with the rest…
— Erykah Badu
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You don't get to choose how you're going to die, or when. You can only decide how you're going to live. Now.
— Joan Baez
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A schoolmaster should have an atmosphere of awe, and walk wonderingly, as if he was amazed at being himself.
— Walter Bagehot
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We look into mirrors but we only see the effects of our times on us - not our effects on others.
— Pearl Bailey
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We have too many high-sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.
— Abigail Adams
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Those who remember Washington's cold war culture in the 1980s will recall the shocked reactions to Reagan's intervention. People interested in foreign policy were astonished…
— Russell Baker
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I am truly free only when all human beings, men and women, are equally free. The freedom of other men, far from negating or limiting…
— Mikhail Bakunin
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Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.
— James A. Baldwin
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A child cannot be taught by anyone who despises him, and a child cannot afford to be fooled.
— James A. Baldwin
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No people come into possession of a culture without having paid a heavy price for it.
— James A. Baldwin
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I am so spoiled. I cannot watch a show where it gets interrupted for ads. I have to TiVo it and skip through the ads,…
— Alan Ball
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Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.
— Henry Adams
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