Culture Quote by Joseph Campbell

The function of the society is to cultivate the individual. It is not the function of the individual to support society.

— Joseph Campbell

Western society is a society of ever richer, more varied, more productive, more self-defined, and more satisfying lives; it is a society of boundless…

— Ibn Warraq

Just now one of the significant historical roles of the primal people of the world is not simply to sustain their own traditions, but…

— Thomas Berry

“We live in a society where mutual respect and appreciation should be considered one of the pillars of modern life.”

— Oscar Auliq-Ice

Society is a kind of parent to its members. If it, and they, are to thrive, its values must be clear, coherent and generally…

— Milton Sapirstein

“tradition, properly cared for, nurtured, honored, and respected, continues to feed the soul of a family.”

— Adriana Trigiani

“Becoming a modern society is about industrialization, urbanization, and rising levels of literacy, education, and wealth. The qualities that make a society Western, in…

— Samuel P. Huntington

“Culture can only function if we live out the unwanted elements symbolically. All healthy societies have a rich ceremonial life. Less healthy ones rely…

— Robert A. Johnson

Human beings need to belong to a tradition and equally need to know about the world in which they find themselves.

— Paula Gunn Allen

Society in its full sense ... is never an entity separable from the individuals who compose it. No individual can arrive even at the…

— Ruth Benedict

A society is only as great as the values that it enshrines as part of its ethos. A society is only as great as…

— Gad Saad

“For there is another truth: to the extent that other cultures have failed to adopt at least major aspects of Western ways, they remain…

— Rodney Stark