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“You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.”
Ray Bradbury
““Experts in ancient Greek culture say that people back then didn’t see their thoughts as belonging to them. When ancient Greeks had a thought, it occurred to them as a god or goddess giving an order. Apollo was telling them to be brave. Athena was telling them to fall in love. Now people hear a commercial for sour cream potato chips and rush out to buy, but now they call this free will. At least the ancient Greeks were being honest.””
Chuck Palahniuk
“Culture is the widening of the mind and of the spirit.”
Jawaharlal Nehru
“It's because we're so trapped in our culture, in the being of being human on this planet with the brains we have, and the same two arms and legs everybody has. We're so trapped that any way we could imagine to escape would be just another part of the trap. Anything we want, we're trained to want.”
“The acquiring of culture is the development of an avid hunger for knowledge and beauty”
Jesse Lee Bennett
“Our culture has made us all the same. No one is truly white or black or rich, anymore. We all want the same. Individually, we are nothing.”
“If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to follow his vision wherever it takes him.”
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
“A nation's culture resides in the hearts and in the soul of its people.”
Mohandas Gandhi
“Why is it that, as a culture, we are more comfortable seeing two men holding guns than holding hands?”
Ernest Gaines
“For the first time, the weird and the stupid and the coarse are becoming our cultural norms, even our cultural ideal.”
Carl Bernstein
