Culture Quotes

Collection of phrases and quotes about culture.

Mikhail Bakunin

Mikhail Bakunin

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The state is an immense cemetery where all manifestations of individual life go to be buried.

Mikhail Bakunin

Mikhail Bakunin

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If society had not been invented, man would have continued to be a wild beast, or, what amounts to the same thing, a saint.

Mikhail Bakunin

Mikhail Bakunin

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In even the purest democracies, such as the United States and Switzerland, a privileged minority holds power over the enslaved majority.

Mikhail Bakunin

Mikhail Bakunin

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Powerful states can only be sustained by crime. Small states are virtuous only because they are weak.

Mikhail Bakunin

Mikhail Bakunin

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The state is a historically temporary mechanism, a transitory form of society.

Jaime Luciano Balmes

Jaime Luciano Balmes

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Woe to the people governed by a Power that must think of its own preservation!

Honoré de Balzac

Honoré de Balzac

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Equality may be a right, but there is no human power that can ever turn it into a fact.

Honoré de Balzac

Honoré de Balzac

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The laws are like spiderwebs, through which the big flies pass freely and the small ones get entangled.

Honoré de Balzac

Honoré de Balzac

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Bureaucracy is a gigantic machine operated by pygmies.

Honoré de Balzac

Honoré de Balzac

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He who knows how to govern a woman knows how to govern a state.

Clive Barker

Clive Barker

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The television is the first truly democratic system, the first accessible to everyone and completely governed by what people want. The terrible thing is precisely what people want.

Pío Baroja

Pío Baroja

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A community is always deceived better than an individual.