(2005 quotes found)
“Culture, the acquainting ourselves with the best that has been known and said in the world, and thus with the history of the human spirit.”
Matthew Arnold
“Two half-truths do not make a truth, and two half-cultures do not make a culture.”
Arthur Koestler
“Moral values, and a culture and a religion, maintaining these values are far better than laws and regulations.”
Swami Sivananda
“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
“Television is the first truly democratic culture - the first culture available to everybody and entirely governed by what the people want. The most terrifying thing is what people do want.”
Clive Barnes
“In the transmission of human culture, people always attempt to replicate, to pass on to the next generation the skills and values of the parents, but the attempt always fails because cultural transmission is geared to learning, not DNA.”
Gregory Bateson
“What other culture could have produced someone like Hemingway and not seen the joke?”
Gore Vidal
“Every age, every culture, every custom and tradition has its own character, its own weakness and its own strength, its beauties and cruelties; it accepts certain sufferings as matters of course, puts up patiently with certain evils. Human life is reduced to real suffering, to hell, only when two ages, two cultures and religions overlap.”
Hermann Hesse
“I believe that in a great city, or even in a small city or a village, a great theater is the outward and visible sign of an inward and probable culture.”
Laurence Olivier Sir
“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.”
Mahatma Gandhi
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