Culture Quote by Noriko Ogiwara

“a being as dependent on his cultural inheritance as man cannot escape convention so easily: and the desire to do so has itself become…

— Theodore Dalrymple

“Men make their own history, but they do not make it as they please; they do not make it under self-selected circumstances, but under…

— Karl Marx

“We need in this generation, as we have had them in the past, men of conscience, driven, even against their wills, certainly against their…

— Sir James Darling

“Each civilization, each nation, each family, each profession, each sex and each class has its own history. Humans have so far been interested mainly…

— Theodore Zeldin

“We pass hatred and prejudice on to our children, as though they were heirlooms of humanity. We cling to traditions that keep us bound…

— L.M. Browning

Men of sense in all ages abhor those customs which treat us only as the vassals of your sex.

— Abigail Adams

“men live peacefully as long as their old way of life is maintained and there is no change in customs.”

— Niccolò Machiavelli

“And men will not understand us—for the generation that grew up before us, though it has passed these years with us already had a…

— Erich Maria Remarque

“I'm not sure exactly where I stand in this generational continuum. I'm rebellious, but not against tradition--I'm very respectful of tradition. I'm rebellious against…

— Wafaa Bilal

“In modern societies, the reproduction of custom is no longer understood to be one of the chief purposes of existence, and the ends of…

— Louis Menand

“To leave the comforts of home, the mother world, one must have some place to go. Admittedly, the rites of passage of traditional cultures…

— James Hollis

“Our wisdom is slavish prejudice, our customs consist in control, constraint, compulsion. Civilised man is born and dies a slave. The infant is bound…

— Jean Jacques Rousseau