Culture Quotes

Collection of phrases and quotes about culture.

Concepción Arenal

Concepción Arenal

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The more the obstacles are divided, the easier they are to overcome.

Concepción Arenal

Concepción Arenal

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Bad laws will always find, and contribute to creating, men worse than them, in charge of executing them.

Concepción Arenal

Concepción Arenal

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Society cannot, in justice, prohibit the honest exercise of their faculties to half of the human gender.

Concepción Arenal

Concepción Arenal

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The education of women up to this point could be called, without much violence: The art of wasting time.

Hannah Arendt

Hannah Arendt

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The political issues are too serious to be left in the hands of politicians.

Hannah Arendt

Hannah Arendt

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Bureaucracy is the form of government in which everyone is deprived of political freedom, of the power to act; because the domination of Nobody is not the absence of domination, and where everyone equally lacks power we have a tyranny without a tyrant.

Aristotle

Aristotle

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The multitude obeys more out of necessity than reason, and to punishments more than honor.

Aristotle

Aristotle

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It is thought that what is just is equal, and so it is; but not for all, only for the equals. On the other hand, it is thought that what is just is unequal, and so it is, but not for all, only for the unequals.

Aristotle

Aristotle

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The sovereignty of the law must be preferred to that of any citizen.

Aristotle

Aristotle

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A state is governed better by a good man than by good laws.

Aristotle

Aristotle

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Tyrants surround themselves with wicked men because they like to be flattered, and no man of elevated spirit will flatter them.

Aristotle

Aristotle

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The only stable state is the one in which all citizens are equal before the law.