I leave you the best quotes about the culture of excellent authors, Paulo Coehlo, Albert Camus, José Vasconcelos, Friedrich Nietzsche, Pablo Picasso and many more. The most common topics covered are literature, art, social perception, traditions and heritage.
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-Men are less distinguished by their natural qualities than by the culture that they provide themselves. -Confucius.
-People without knowledge of their past, their origin and their culture are like a tree without roots. -Marcus Garvey.
-Culture is the social use of knowledge. -Gabriel Garcia Marquez.
-Courtesy is the main sample of culture. -Baltasar Gracián.
-Culture is the broadening of the mind and spirit. -Jawaharlal Nehru.
-If we want to preserve culture, we must continue to create it. -Johan Huizinga.
-Culture is created in the towns and destroyed in the cities. -Miguel Delibes.
-The culture of a nation resides in the hearts and souls of its people. -Mahatma Gandhi.
-Only he who knows is free, and he who knows the most is freer. The freedom that must be given to the people is culture. -Miguel de Unamuno.
-By the thickness of the dust in the books of a public library, the culture of a people can be measured. -John Steinbeck.
-A mind cannot be independent of culture. -Lev Vygotsky.
-Only the cultured man is free. -Epictetus.
-If we want to preserve culture, we must continue to create it. -Johan Huizinga.
-The preservation of one's own culture does not require contempt or disrespect for other cultures. -Cesar Chavez.
-It is not necessary to burn books to destroy a culture. Just make people stop reading them. -Ray Bradbury.
-Culture is a knowledge that one does not have to remember, it flows spontaneously. -Diógenes Laercio.
-Culture is the awakening of man. -María Zambrano.
-The selection of a point of view is the initial act of a culture. -José Ortega y Gasset.
-Culture generates progress and without it it is not possible to demand any moral conduct from the peoples. -José Vasconcelos.
-A people without literature is a mute people. -Miguel Delibes.
-Letting hundreds of flowers sprout and one hundred schools of thought compete is the policy to promote the progress of the arts and sciences, and a flourishing culture in our country. -Mao Zedong.
-The dangerous criminal is the cultured criminal. -Gilbert Keith Chesterton.
-Culture allows people to understand each other. And if you understand each other better on a spiritual level, it is easier to overcome economic and political barriers. -Paulo Coehlo.
-Without culture and the relative freedom that it implies, society, even when it is perfect, is nothing more than a jungle. For this reason, any authentic creation is a gift to the future. -Albert Camus.
-We are only curious in proportion to our culture. -Jean-Jacques Rosseau.
-Tradition does not mean that the living are dead, it means that the dead are alive. -Gilbert K Chesterton.
-The role of culture is such that it shapes how we as a society reflect on who we are, where we have been and where we hope to go. -Wendell Pierce.
-When a tradition gains enough strength to continue for centuries, one simply cannot eradicate it in one day. -Chinua Achebe.
-Culture is what remains after having forgotten what was learned. -André Maurois.
-The stronger a culture is, the less radicals are feared; the more paranoid and precarious a culture is, the less tolerance it offers. -Joel Salatin.
-Two half truths do not make a truth and two half cultures do not make a culture. -Arthur Koestler.
-Since we are destined to live our life in the prison of our minds, it is our duty to endow it well with knowledge. -Peter Ustinov.
-Culture is transmitted through the family and when this institution stops working properly, the result is the deterioration of culture. -Mario Vargas Llosa.
-Art is a lie that brings us closer to the truth. -Pablo Picasso.
-Sexual, racial, gender and other forms of discrimination and violence in a culture cannot be eradicated without first changing the culture itself. -Charlotte Bunch.
-The crucial differences that differentiate human societies and human beings are not biological. They are cultural. -Ruth Benedict.
-Culture is the name for what people are interested in, their thoughts, their models, the books they read and the speeches they listen to. -Walter Lippmann.
-Culture is one thing and varnish another. -Ralph Waldo Emerson.
-Through the years we have learned new things, but we must also learn to treasure the past.
-If the literature of a nation is spoiled, the nation atrophies and deteriorates. -Ezra Pound
-A country, a civilization can be judged by the way it treats its animals. -Mahatma Gandhi.
-Creativity is putting our imagination to work, and it produces the most extraordinary results in human culture. -Ken Robinson.
-Sexually progressive cultures gave us literature, philosophy, civilization and the rest, while sexually restrictive cultures gave us obscurantism and the Holocaust. -Alan Moore.
-The beauty of the world is about the diversity of its people.
-Every man who has shown the world the way to beauty, to true culture, has been a rebel, a "universal" without patriotism, without a home, capable of finding his people everywhere. -Chaim Potock.
-Culture is a way of dealing with the world by defining it in detail. -Malcolm Bradbury.
-Without memory there is no culture. Without memory there would be no civilization, no society, no future. -Elie Wiesel.
-Young culture really looks back and accepts the past, but remains contemporary by not preserving a particular style. -Alexander McQueen.
-A positive culture comes from being aware of and respectful to your colleagues, as well as being empathetic. -Biz Stone.
-Culture is the good education of the understanding. -Jacinto Benavente.
-The true soul of a culture, of a nation, is truly discovered with a knife and fork. -Juanjo Braulio.
-The true culture is one that helps us to work for the social improvement of all. -Henry Ward Beecher.
-We rarely realize that our most private thoughts and emotions are not really ours, since we think in terms of languages and images that we did not construct, but were given to us by our society. -Alan Watts.
-TV is the mirror where the defeat of our entire cultural system is reflected. -Federico Fellini.
-The simplicity and naturalness are the supreme and last aim of culture. -Friedrich Nietzsche.
-A single person cannot change an organization, but a culture and good people can. -Frances Hesselbein.
-Strength is born from differences, not from similarities. -Stephen R. Covey.
-There where books are burned, men are burned. -Heinrich Heine.
-Popular culture is a place where pity is called compassion, flattery is called love, propaganda is called knowledge, tension is called peace, gossip is called news, and auto-tune is called singing. -Criss Jami.
-Traditions are guides ingrained deep in our subconscious minds. The most powerful are those that we cannot even describe and about which we are not aware. -Ellen Goodman.
-Everyone blames culture without accepting their responsibility. -James Levine.
-Culture is the habit of being pleased with the best and knowing why. -Henry van Dyke.
-Art is the basis of culture in any nation that faithfully invests in education. Without art in all its forms, a nation is barbaric. -Gavin Calf.
-Art and culture increase harmony, tolerance and understanding between people. -Matilde Asensi.
-Just observing your culture without contributing to it seems to be close to existing as a ghost. -Chuck Palahniuk.
-Natural understanding can replace culture, but the latter can never replace the former. -Arthur Schopenhauer.
-If you want to change the culture, you will have to start by changing the organization. -Mary Douglas.
-The vision without power is capable of achieving moral elevation, but it cannot create a lasting culture. -Muhammaad Iqbal.
- Literature nourishes the soul and consoles it. -François Marie Arouet.
-TV has done wonders for my culture. As soon as someone turns it on, I go to the library and read a good book. -Groucho Marx.
-An army without culture is a foolish army, and a foolish army cannot defeat the enemy. -Mao Zedong.
-A well-formed head will always be better and preferable to a very full head. -Michel de Montaigne.
-Globalization, in its eagerness to unify markets, is endangering cultural varieties, their identity, in addition to deteriorating their creative capacity. -Ko Un.
-The differences in customs and languages are nothing at all if our purposes are the same and we are open. -JK Rowling.
-Tradition can certainly participate in creation, but it cannot continue to be creative by itself. -Kenzo Tange.
-Who controls the media, controls culture. -Allen Ginsberg.
-It is not enough to preserve things, it is more important to practice them and keep them alive.
- Books are the bees that carry pollen from one intelligence to another. -James Russell Lowell.
-No culture can live if it tries to be exclusive. -Mahatma Gandhi.
-Mankind builds too many walls and not enough bridges. -Isaac Newton.
-The great law of culture is: let each one of us become what they are capable of doing. -Thomas Carlyle.
-All cultures, in one way or another, reflect common human needs. -Bronislaw Malinowski.
-Tradition is the illusion of permanence. -Woody Allnen.
-Culture affects our perception of reality. It provides mental concepts by which people perceive, interpret, analyze and explain the events that occur in the world around them. -James G. Peoples.
-A book is like a garden that you carry in your pocket. -Arabic proverb.
-The capital function of culture, its true reason for being, is to defend ourselves against nature. -Sigmund Freud.
-Each culture absorbs elements from cultures near and far, but is later characterized by the way it incorporates those elements. -Umberto Eco.
-Culture does not make people. People make culture. -Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie.
-If you do something outside the framework of a dominant culture, it will not be an easy place for you. You will have to achieve it by yourself. -Ava Duvernay.
-One of the most effective ways to learn about yourself is by taking the cultures of others seriously. It forces you to pay attention to those details in life that differentiate them from you. -Edward T. Hall.
-Culture is what, in death, continues to be life. -André Malraux.
-Culture is not invented, but something that evolves, something that is human. -Edward T. Hall.
-When one lives in a society where people cannot trust that institutions tell them the truth, the truth must come from culture and art. -John Trudell.
-To travel far, there is no better ship than a book. -Emily Dickinson.
-It is worth making many sacrifices for our culture. Without culture we are all totalitarian beasts. -Norman Mailer.
-The culture of the mind must be to serve the heart. -Mahatma Gandhi.
-Brute force is tolerable, but brute reason is unbearable. -Oscar Wilde.
-Education helps the person to learn to be what they are capable of being. -Hesiod.
-Culture is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity. -Diógenes Laercio.
-In matters of culture and knowledge, only what is saved is lost; you only earn what you give. -Antonio Manchado.
-All human ability can be strengthened or increased by culture. -John Abbott.
-Cultural differences should not separate us from each other, but rather cultural diversity should be the source of a collective strength that benefits all of humanity. -Robert Alan.
-The highest possible level to achieve in a moral culture is achieved when we recognize that we must control our thoughts. -Charles Darwin.
-We may have different religions, different languages, different skin colors, but we all belong to the same race, the human race. -Kofi Annan.
-If you think you are impregnated with good literature, with a good culture, you are more difficult to manipulate, and you are much more aware of the dangers that power represents. -Mario Vargas Llosa.
-Culture is familiarizing ourselves with the best that has been known and said in the world, and therefore, with the history of the human spirit. -Matthew Aronld.
-Youth must not only assimilate the fruits of the culture of their parents, but must raise culture to new heights, to which the people of previous generations do not reach. -Konstantin Stanislavski.
-The man must be cultured enough to inspect culture with suspicion in the first instance, not the second.