Culture Quotes

Collection of phrases and quotes about culture.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Arthur Schopenhauer

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Every execrable fool, who has nothing in the world to be proud of, takes refuge in this final resort, of boasting about the nation to which he belongs by chance.

Ramón J. Sénder

Ramón J. Sénder

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Television is a daughter of cinema that has turned out unruly and of bad habits.

Robert Spaemann

Robert Spaemann

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The dependence of people on television is the most destructive fact of current civilization.

Robert Spaemann

Robert Spaemann

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Television systematically destroys the distinction between normal and abnormal, because within its parameters, normal lacks sufficient interest and therefore always needs to be contrasted with an alternative. Its criteria are not the dissemination of values and principles, but rather to provoke the greatest impact.

Herbert Spencer

Herbert Spencer

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If it is a duty to respect the rights of others, it is also a duty to maintain one's own.

John Steinbeck

John Steinbeck

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Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts, perhaps the fear of losing power.

Stendhal

Stendhal

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The religions are founded on the fear of many and the liveliness of a few.

Stendhal

Stendhal

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The full equality of women would be the surest sign of civilization and would double the intellectual forces of the human race.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Robert Louis Stevenson

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Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is considered necessary.

Johann August Strindberg

Johann August Strindberg

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Society is a madhouse whose guardians are the police officers.

Jonathan Swift

Jonathan Swift

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We have enough religion to hate each other, but not enough to love each other.