Culture Quotes

Collection of phrases and quotes about culture.

William Somerset Maugham

William Somerset Maugham

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In its struggle against the individual, society has three weapons: law, public opinion, and conscience.

William Somerset Maugham

William Somerset Maugham

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Tradition is a guide, not a jailer.

Guy de Maupassant

Guy de Maupassant

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Patriotism is the egg from which wars are hatched.

Michel de Montaigne

Michel de Montaigne

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Laws maintain their credit not because they are just, but because they are laws.

Michel de Montaigne

Michel de Montaigne

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No man is so good that, when exposed to the actions of the law, he would not be condemned to the gallows at least ten times.

Michel de Montaigne

Michel de Montaigne

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Who knows oneself, also knows others, because every man carries the entire form of the human condition.

Montesquieu

Montesquieu

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A thing is not fair just because it is the law. It must be the law because it is fair.

Montesquieu

Montesquieu

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Democracy must guard against two excesses: the spirit of inequality, which leads to aristocracy, and the spirit of extreme equality, which leads to despotism.

Montesquieu

Montesquieu

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An injustice done to the individual is a threat to the entire society.

Montesquieu

Montesquieu

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The law should be like death, which exempts no one.

Montesquieu

Montesquieu

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There is no worse tyranny than that which is exercised in the shadow of the laws and under the heat of justice.