Culture quotes

Arnold Matthew 1822-1888

Culture is the passion for sweetness and light, and (what is  more) the passion for making them prevail.

Arnold Matthew 1822-1888

Culture and Anarchy

The men of culture are the true apostles of equality.

Behan Brendan 1923-1964

A Torontonian is a man who leaves culture to his wife.

Camus Albert 1913-1960

Without culture, and the relative freedom it presumes, society, even when perfect, is no more than a jungle. This is why every authentic creation is a gift to the future.

Frye Northrop 1912-1991

We are being swallowed up by the popular culture of the United States, but then the Americans are being swallowed up by it too. It's just as much a threat to American culture as it is to ours.

Gilbert W.S. 1836-1911

Patience

If you're anxious for to shine in the high  aesthetic line as a man of culture rare.

Gropius Walter 1883-1969

How can we expect our students to become bold and fearless  in thought and action if we encase them in sentimental shrines feigning a culture which has long since disappeared?

Habgood John (Archbishop of York) 1927-

The desire to be spoonfed, to have our problems solved for us by someone else,  to be given the short, snappy answer, has sunk deep into our culture.

Loevinger Lee

Television is the literature of the illiterate, the culture of the low-brow, the wealth of the poor, the privilege of the underprivileged, the exclusive  club of the excluded masses.

McLuhan Marshall 1911-1980

Art at its most significant is a Distant Early Warning
System that can always be relied on to tell the old culture  what is beginning to happen to it.

May Rollo

I think Dostoevsky was right, that every human being must have  a point at which he stands against the culture, where he says, this  is me and the damned world can got o hell.

Wharton Edith 1862-1937

Xingu and Other Stories „Xingu"

Mrs Ballinger is one of the ladies who pursue  Culture in bands, as though it were dangerous  to meet it alone.

Whitman Walt 1819-1892

I tis native personality, and that alone, that endows a man to stand before presidents or generals, or in any distinguished collection, with aplomb-and not culture, or any intellect whatever.

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