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“What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions. Life is plurality, death is uniformity. By suppressing differences and pecularities, by eliminating different civilizations and cultures, progress weakens life and favors death. The ideal of a single civilization for everyone, implicit in the cult of progress and technique, impoverishes and mutilates us. Every view of the world that becomes extinct, every culture that disappears, diminishes a possibility of life”
Octavio Paz
“Those who know nothing of foreign languages know nothing of their own.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“Every man's ability may be strengthened or increased by culture”
John Abbott
“People can only live fully by helping others to live. When you give life to friends you truly live. Cultures can only realize their further richness by honoring other traditions. And only by respecting natural life can humanity continue to exist.”
Daisaku Ikeda
“Culture of the mind must be subservient to the heart”
Mahatma Gandhi
“Whoever controls the media, the images, controls the culture.”
Allen Ginsberg
“Culture is the sum of all the forms of art, of love, and of thought, which, in the coarse or centuries, have enabled man to be less enslaved”
Andre Malraux
“No culture can live, if it attempts to be exclusive.”
“Culture is the process by which a person becomes all that they were created capable of being.”
Thomas Carlyle
“I do not want my house to be walled in on all sides and my windows to be stuffed. I want the cultures of all the lands to be blown about my house as freely as possible. But I refuse to be blown off my feet by any.”
