Culture Quotes

Collection of phrases and quotes about culture.

Honoré de Balzac

Honoré de Balzac

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The newspaper is a shop where the words of the same color as desired are sold to the public.

Albert Camus

Albert Camus

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The solidarity of men is based on the movement of rebellion, and this, in turn, only finds justification in this complicity. We will, therefore, have the right to say that any rebellion that is authorized to deny or destroy this solidarity loses at the same time the name of rebellion and actually coincides with criminal consent.

Benjamin Disraeli

Benjamin Disraeli

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The world is full of statesmen whom democracy has degraded, turning them into politicians.

Fernando Fernán Gomez

Fernando Fernán Gomez

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Six, eight million viewers. These are figures that no theater director or novelist could ever dream of, let alone Aeschylus, Sophocles, or Euripides.

Abraham Lincoln

Abraham Lincoln

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I don't believe that the strictest justice is always the best policy.

José Martí

José Martí

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The homeland is the joy, pain, and heaven of all, and not the fiefdom or chaplaincy of anyone.

Michel de Montaigne

Michel de Montaigne

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The public good requires betraying, lying, and massacring.

Montesquieu

Montesquieu

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The Christian religion, which seems to have no other purpose than the happiness of the afterlife, also makes us happy in this life.

George Orwell

George Orwell

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Until they are conscious of their own strength, they will not rebel, and only after rebelling will they become aware. This is the problem.

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Pier Paolo Pasolini

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They do not realize that television is perhaps even worse than mandatory schooling.

George S. Patton

George S. Patton

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Patriotism on the battlefield consists of getting another unfortunate person to die for their country before they get you to die for yours.

William Penn

William Penn

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Let the people who govern think, and they will let themselves be governed.