Culture Quotes

Collection of phrases and quotes about culture.

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.

John Steinbeck

John Steinbeck

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Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts, perhaps the fear of losing power.

Stendhal

Stendhal

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The religions are founded on the fear of many and the liveliness of a few.

Stendhal

Stendhal

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The full equality of women would be the surest sign of civilization and would double the intellectual forces of the human race.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Robert Louis Stevenson

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Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is considered necessary.

Johann August Strindberg

Johann August Strindberg

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Society is a madhouse whose guardians are the police officers.

Jonathan Swift

Jonathan Swift

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We have enough religion to hate each other, but not enough to love each other.

Tacitus

Tacitus

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In all things there seems to exist as a law a circle.

Tacitus

Tacitus

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He began by ruling his house, which, for most men, is no less difficult than governing a province.