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Culture Quotes by Daniel Quinn
- If Mother Culture were to give an account of human history using these terms, it would go something like this: ' The Leavers were chapter…
- During your lifetime, the people of our culture are going to figure out how to live sustainably on this planet--or they're not. Either way, it's…
- Far and away the most futile admonition Christ ever offered was when he said, 'Have no care for tomorrow. Don't worry about whether you're going…
- But we're not humanity, we're just one culture - one culture out of hundreds of thousands that have lived their vision on this planet and…
- Within your culture as a whole, there is in fact no significant thrust toward global population control. The point to see is that there never…
- The theory I'm putting forward here is that storytelling is a genetic characteristic in the sense that early human hunters who were able to organize…
- And every time the Takers stamp out a Leaver culture, a wisdom ultimately tested since the birth of mankind disappears from the world beyond recall.
- Once you learn to discern the voice of Mother Culture humming in the background, telling her story over and over again to the people of…
- Everyone in your culture knows this. Man was born to turn the world into paradise, but tragically he was born flawed. And so his paradise…
- [I]n Africa I was a member of a family—of a sort of family that the people of your culture haven't known for thousands of years.…
- The mythology of your culture hums in your ears so constantly that no one pays the slightest bit of attention to it. Of course man…
- The people of your culture cling with fanatical tenacity to the specialness of man. They want desperately to perceive a vast gulf between man and…
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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
- Democracy arises out of the notion that those who are equal in any respect are equal in all respects; because men are… — Aristotle
- Don't tire yourself more than need be, even at the price of founding a culture on the fatigue of your bones. — Antonin Artaud
- The test for whether or not you can hold a job should not be the arrangement of your chromosomes. — Bella Abzug
- It is a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more money writing or talking about his art… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- 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
- Morals are built on religious faith. Virtue is built on morality and influences a culture. — Michele Bachmann
- The most certain test by which we judge whether a country is really free is the amount of security enjoyed by minorities. — Lord Acton
- Well, if you look at all of the cultures in America, this is a great opportunity for us to really get acquainted… — Erykah Badu
- 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
- A schoolmaster should have an atmosphere of awe, and walk wonderingly, as if he was amazed at being himself. — Walter Bagehot
- We look into mirrors but we only see the effects of our times on us - not our effects on others. — Pearl Bailey