Culture Quotes

Collection of phrases and quotes about culture.

Flora Tristan

Flora Tristan

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All the misfortunes of the world come from the forgetfulness and contempt that has been shown to the natural and indispensable rights of women.

Flora Tristan

Flora Tristan

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The law that enslaves women and deprives them of education, also oppresses you, proletarian men. (...) In the name of your own interest, men; in the name of your improvement, yours, men; finally, in the name of the universal welfare of all, I urge you to demand rights for women.

Flora Tristan

Flora Tristan

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The level of civilization achieved by various human societies is in proportion to the independence enjoyed by women.

Leon Trotsky

Leon Trotsky

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A revolution is not worthy of being called such if, with all the power and means at its disposal, it is not capable of helping women—doubly or triply enslaved, as they were in the past—to rise and advance on the path of social and individual progress.

Anne Robert Jacques Turgot

Anne Robert Jacques Turgot

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Everywhere the strongest have made the laws and oppressed the weak.

Mark Twain

Mark Twain

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There are two occasions when a man should not gamble; when he doesn't have money and when he does.

Miguel de Unamuno

Miguel de Unamuno

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The opinion of an entire crowd is always more credible than that of a minority.

Miguel de Unamuno

Miguel de Unamuno

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Philosophy responds to the need to make a unitary and total conception of the world and life.

Paul Valéry

Paul Valéry

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Politics is the art of preventing people from meddling in what concerns them.

Voltaire

Voltaire

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The pleasure of governing must be very great, since there are so many who aspire to do it.

Voltaire

Voltaire

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Civilization did not suppress barbarism; it perfected it and made it more cruel and barbaric.