Culture Quotes

Collection of phrases and quotes about culture.

Gilbert Keith Chesterton

Gilbert Keith Chesterton

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Democracy means government by the uneducated, and aristocracy means government by the poorly educated.

Gilbert Keith Chesterton

Gilbert Keith Chesterton

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The church asks us to take off our hats when entering, not our heads.

Winston Churchill

Winston Churchill

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A fanatic is someone who can't change their mind and doesn't want to change the subject.

Winston Churchill

Winston Churchill

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The politician must be able to predict what will happen tomorrow, next month, and next year; and then explain why it didn't happen as he predicted.

Jean Jacques Rousseau

Jean Jacques Rousseau

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The government originated from the purpose of finding a form of association that defends and protects the person and property of each individual with the common force of all.

Jean Jacques Rousseau

Jean Jacques Rousseau

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The cities are the abyss of the human species.

Jean Jacques Rousseau

Jean Jacques Rousseau

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Nature has made man happy and good, but society corrupts him and makes him miserable.

Jean Jacques Rousseau

Jean Jacques Rousseau

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I prefer to be a man of paradoxes than a man of prejudices.

Santiago Rusiñol i Prats

Santiago Rusiñol i Prats

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When a man asks for justice, it's because he wants to be right.

Santiago Rusiñol i Prats

Santiago Rusiñol i Prats

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A revolution is the triumph of the ambitious from below over the fearful from above.

John Ruskin

John Ruskin

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Do justice to someone and you will end up loving them. But if you are unjust to them, you will end up hating them.

John Ruskin

John Ruskin

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Great nations write their autobiographies in three manuscripts: the book of deeds, the book of words, and the book of art.