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Every man's ability may be strengthened or increased by culture.
-John Abbott
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Culture, then, is a study of perfection, and perfection which insists on becoming something rather than in having something, in an inward condition of the mind and spirit, not in an outward set of circumstances.
-Matthew Arnold
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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
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What would it be like to have not only color vision but culture vision, the ability to see the multiple worlds of others.
-Mary Catherine Bateson
Peripheral Visions, pg 155
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As the end of the century approaches, all our culture is like flies at the beginning of winter. Having lost their agility, dreamy and demented, they turn slowly about the window in the first icy mists of morning,...then they fall down the curtains.
-Charles Baudelaire
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That is true culture which helps us to work for the social betterment of all.
-Henry Ward Beecher
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The crucial differences which distinguish human societies and human beings are not biological. They are cultural.
-Ruth Benedict
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The acquiring of culture is the development of an avid hunger for knowledge and beauty.
-Jesse Bennett
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We are in the process of creating what deserves to be called the idiot culture. Not an idiot sub-culture, which every society has bubbling beneath the surface and which can provide harmless fun; but the culture itself. For the first time, the weird and the stupid and the coarse are becoming our cultural norm, even our cultural ideal.
-Carl Bernstein
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We are like ignorant shepherds living on a site where great civilizations once flourished. The shepherds play with the fragments that pop up to the surface, having no notion of the beautiful structures of which they were once a part.
-Allan Bloom
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General jackdaw culture, very little more than a collection of charming miscomprehensions, untargeted enthusiasms, and a general habit of skimming.
-William Bolitho
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Our attitude toward our own culture has recently been characterized by two qualities, braggadocio and petulance. Braggadocio -- empty boasting of American power, American virtue, American know-how -- has dominated our foreign relations now for some decades. Here at home -- within the family, so to speak -- our attitude to our culture expresses a superficially different spirit, the spirit of petulance. Never before, perhaps, has a culture been so fragmented into groups, each full of its own virtue, each annoyed and irritated at the others.
-Daniel J. Boorstin
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Language is the road map of a culture. It tells you where its people come from and where they are going.
-Rita Mae Brown
Starting From Scratch, 1988
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Just as there's garbage that pollutes the Potomac river, there is garbage polluting our culture. We need an Environmental Protection Agency to clean it up.
-Patrick J. Buchanan
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A man should be just cultured enough to be able to look with suspicion upon culture at first, not second hand.
-Samuel Butler
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Culture: the cry of men in face of their destiny.
-Albert Camus
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Without culture, and the relative freedom it implies, society, even when perfect, is but a jungle. This is why any authentic creation is a gift to the future.
-Albert Camus
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What culture lacks is the taste for anonymous, innumerable germination. Culture is smitten with counting and measuring; it feels out of place and uncomfortable with the innumerable; its efforts tend, on the contrary, to limit the numbers in all domains; it tries to count on its fingers.
-Jean Dubuffet
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In the room the women come and go talking of Michelangelo.
-TS (Thomas Stearns) Eliot
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Culture is one thing and varnish is another.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
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It is of the essence of imaginative culture that it transcends the limits both of the naturally possible and of the morally acceptable.
-Northrop Frye
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Culture of the mind must be subservient to the heart.
-Mahatma Gandhi
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No culture can live if it attempts to be exclusive.
-Mahatma Gandhi
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Culture is a sham if it is only a sort of Gothic front put on an iron building -- like Tower Bridge -- or a classical front put on a steel frame -- like the Daily Telegraph building in Fleet Street. Culture, if it is to be a real thing and a holy thing, must be the product of what we actually do for a living -- not something added, like sugar on a pill.
-Eric Gill
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Whenever I hear the word culture, I reach for my revolver.
-Hermann Goering
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Books about Culture
