Culture Quotes

Collection of phrases and quotes about culture.

Karl Marx

Karl Marx

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The executive of the modern state is nothing more than a committee for managing the affairs of the bourgeoisie.

Karl Marx

Karl Marx

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Workers of the world, unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains.

Paul Masson

Paul Masson

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Officials are like books in a library: those placed in the highest positions are the most useless.

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.