Culture Quotes

Collection of phrases and quotes about culture.

Edward R. Murrow

Edward R. Murrow

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Everyone is a prisoner of their own experiences. No one can eliminate prejudices, simply recognize them.

José Ortega y Gasset

José Ortega y Gasset

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Civilization does not last because men are only interested in its results: anesthetics, automobiles, radio. But nothing that civilization provides is the natural fruit of an endemic tree. Everything is the result of an effort. A civilization only endures if many contribute their collaboration to the effort. If everyone prefers to enjoy the fruit, civilization sinks.

José Ortega y Gasset

José Ortega y Gasset

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Democracy [...] as a political norm seems like an optimal thing. But [...] of democracy in thought and deed, democracy in the heart and in custom, is the most dangerous disease that a society can suffer.

Love for the homeland is more evident than reason itself.

Charles Palissot de Montenoy

Charles Palissot de Montenoy

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Fanaticism is to religion what hypocrisy is to virtue.

Emilia Pardo Bazán

Emilia Pardo Bazán

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It is absurd for a people to place their hopes of redemption and happiness in forms of government that they do not understand.

Emilia Pardo Bazán

Emilia Pardo Bazán

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All women conceive ideas, but not all conceive children. The human being is not a fruit tree that is only cultivated for the harvest.

Dorothy Parker

Dorothy Parker

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It's a relief to find in a book of rules or laws something that will never affect you.

Blaise Pascal

Blaise Pascal

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Justice over force is impotence, force without justice is tyranny.

Blaise Pascal

Blaise Pascal

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Every religion that does not affirm that God is hidden, is not true.

Blaise Pascal

Blaise Pascal

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In religions it is necessary to be sincere; true pagans, true Jews, true Christians.