Culture Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

Again, the great number of cultivated men keep each other up to a high standard. The habit of meeting well-read and knowing men teaches…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

In the ardor of pursuit men soon forget the goal from which they start.

— Friedrich Schiller

The most fertile districts of the habitable globe are now actually cultivated by men for animals, at a delay and waste of aliment absolutely…

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

Young men soon give, and soon forget, affronts; old age is slow in both.

— Joseph Addison

Learning has been as great a Loser by being shut up in Colleges and Cells, and secluded from the World and good Company. By…

— David Hume

“They looked ruined and decrepit, the sort of men who'd soon turn into empty chairs.”

— Colum McCann

Cultivated men and women who do not skim the cream of life, and are attached to the duties, yet escape the harder blows, make…

— George Meredith

“Every revolution has had its honest men. They are soon disposed of afterwards.”

— Anonymous

Capitalism’s grow-or-die imperative stands radically at odds with ecology’s imperative of interdependence and limit. The two imperatives can no longer coexist with each other;…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

Kantian ethical theory distinguishes three levels: First, that of a fundamental principle (the categorical imperative, formulated in three main ways in Kant's Groundwork); second,…

— Allen W. Wood

All the reasons which made the initiation of physical force evil, make the retaliatory use of physical force a moral imperative.

— Ayn Rand

In Holland I have seen well-meaning, principled people blinded by multiculturalism, overwhelmed by the imperative to be sensitive and respectful of immigrant culture, while…

— Ayaan Hirsi Ali