Culture Quotes

Collection of phrases and quotes about culture.

Carl Schmitt

Carl Schmitt

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Sovereign is the one who decides on the state of emergency.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Arthur Schopenhauer

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The vulgar men have invented social life because it is easier for them to endure others than to endure themselves.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Arthur Schopenhauer

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The rebellion is the original virtue of man.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Arthur Schopenhauer

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The social instinct of men is not based on love for society, but on the fear of loneliness.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Arthur Schopenhauer

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Although the world contains many decidedly bad things, the worst of all is society.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Arthur Schopenhauer

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Religions, like fireflies, need darkness to shine.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Arthur Schopenhauer

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Every nation mocks the others, and all are right

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.