Culture Quotes

Collection of phrases and quotes about culture.

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.

Pío Baroja

Pío Baroja

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Bureaucracy in Latin countries seems to have been established to harass the public.

Pío Baroja

Pío Baroja

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If you ever discover any law, be prudent and do not try to apply it. You have discovered the law... that is enough. Because if this law is physical and you try to apply it to a machine, you will stumble upon brute matter; and if it is a social law, you will stumble upon the brutality of men.

Pío Baroja

Pío Baroja

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The law is inexorable, like dogs: it only barks at those who are poorly dressed.

Bernard M. Baruch

Bernard M. Baruch

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Vote for the one who promises less. They will be the one who disappoints you the least.

Ambrose Bierce

Ambrose Bierce

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Politics is the management of public affairs for the benefit of individuals.

Ambrose Bierce

Ambrose Bierce

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Making a game of business cannot be compared with the business of gaming.

Ambrose Bierce

Ambrose Bierce

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The voter enjoys the sacred privilege of voting for a candidate chosen by others.

Cecilia Bohl de Faber

Cecilia Bohl de Faber

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Be fair before being generous, be humane before being fair.