Culture Quotes

Collection of phrases and quotes about culture.

Mikhail Bakunin

Mikhail Bakunin

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In even the purest democracies, such as the United States and Switzerland, a privileged minority holds power over the enslaved majority.

Mikhail Bakunin

Mikhail Bakunin

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Powerful states can only be sustained by crime. Small states are virtuous only because they are weak.

Mikhail Bakunin

Mikhail Bakunin

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The state is a historically temporary mechanism, a transitory form of society.

Jaime Luciano Balmes

Jaime Luciano Balmes

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Woe to the people governed by a Power that must think of its own preservation!

Honoré de Balzac

Honoré de Balzac

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Equality may be a right, but there is no human power that can ever turn it into a fact.

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.

Winston Churchill

Winston Churchill

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After an election recount, only the winner matters. Everyone else is a loser.

Winston Churchill

Winston Churchill

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Democracy is the need to occasionally yield to the opinions of others.

Winston Churchill

Winston Churchill

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The diplomat is a person who first thinks twice and finally says nothing.