Belonging Quote by Ken Breniman

“We live in a world where touch is both desperately needed and heavily stigmatized.”

— Ken Breniman

“Our culture confuses the pain of isolation with some impossible ideal of “self-sufficiency,” and then celebrates it.”

— Wayne Muller

“When civilization is strong and widespread enough, "culture" will appear and take care of itself.”

— John Lukacs

“Culture is the sea we swim in - so pervasive, so all-consuming, that we fail to notice its existence until we step out of…

— Eric Weiner

“It is often out encounter with culture that first reveals to us our own culture.”

— Tim Chester

“You can't have a cohesive society without a shared culture.”

— Alexander McCall Smith

“Culture is not enough, even though nothing is enough without culture.”

— T.S. Eliot

“Culture does not exist autonomously; it is set always in the context of social relationships.”

— Robert A. Nisbet

“Culture, then, only truly becomes culture when it is embodied in someone.”

— László Krasznahorkai

“All culture, whatever significance it may have, just as all education, civilization, development, is absolutely powerless to renew the inner man.”

— Herman Bavinck

“Culture in the broadest sense includes all the labor which human power expends on nature.”

— Herman Bavinck

“It is certain that no culture can flourish without narratives of transcendent origin and power”

— Neil Postman