Culture Quotes

Collection of phrases and quotes about culture.

Jorge Luis Borges

Jorge Luis Borges

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The university should insist on what is old and foreign to us. If it insists on what is its own and contemporary, the university is useless, because it is expanding a function that the press already fulfills.

Jorge Luis Borges

Jorge Luis Borges

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There are communists who argue that being anti-communist is being fascist. This is as incomprehensible as saying that not being Catholic is being Mormon.

Jorge Luis Borges

Jorge Luis Borges

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Democracy: it is a widely held superstition, an abuse of statistics.

Jorge Luis Borges

Jorge Luis Borges

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I believe that with time, we will deserve to not have governments.

Jorge Luis Borges

Jorge Luis Borges

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I will always be the future Nobel. It must be a Scandinavian tradition.

Ludwig Börne

Ludwig Börne

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Governments are sails; the people, the wind; the State, the ship; and time, the sea.

Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet

Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet

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The politics is an act of balance between the people who want to enter and those who do not want to leave.

Émile Boutroux

Émile Boutroux

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The law is the bed through which the stream of facts flows.

Brian Bowling

Brian Bowling

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Diplomacy gets you out of a problem that tact would have kept you from getting into.

Charles Bukowski

Charles Bukowski

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The difference between a democracy and a dictatorship is that in a democracy you can vote before obeying the orders.