Culture Quote by Tariq Ali

“Cultures that do not wish to exist cannot be dissuaded from destroying themselves.”

— David P. Goldman

“And now, what will become of us without the barbarians? Those people were a kind of solution.”

— Cavafy

“And now, what’s going to happen to us without barbarians? They were, those people, a kind of solution.”

— C.P. Cavafy

“Wars over lands or resources that later meant nothing. The worst, over religious beliefs, which were nothing more than emotional ideas being systematically forced…

— Michael C. Grumley

“Change the fabric of their culture? It hasn’t happened yet, not in two thousand years. And it won’t happen now.”

— James Webb

“Nothing could assuage the secular grief that was your heritage.”

— Aldous Huxley

“So may you come into the true Kingdom of Culture ... and may you be armed against the worst blows that fate can deal…

— George Hamlin Fitch

“Like us, those vanished warriors planted their standards in the sands of their own self-summoned extinction.”

— Steven Pressfield

“Since the whole affair had become one of religion, the vanquished were of course exterminated.”

— Voltaire

“Once again, without explaining anything, they understood that they must leave. Go away before this world woke up and continued with a life from…

— Andreï Makine

“...or perhaps about acknowledging that life is a delicate balance of great forces, and that good would lose its potency if there was no…

— Anne Fortier

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

— Herman Bavinck