Quotes about Culture
When nature exceeds culture, we have the rustic. When culture exceeds nature, we have the pedant.
- Confucius
The inner nature of man is the province of Music.
- Confucius
An old Apache storyteller reminds us
- Joseph Campbell
But Sasha was from Russia, where the sunsets are longer, the dawns less sudden and sentences are often left unfinished from doubt as how to best end them.
- Virginia Woolf
I am Roman, alas, because Horace is Roman.
- Pierre Corneille
We live in a world where we have to hide to make love, while violence is practiced in broad daylight.
- John Lennon
Culture of the mind must be subservient to the heart.
- Mahatma Gandhi
He who cherishes the value of cultures cannot fail to be a pacifist.
- Albert Einstein
Let a man be stimulated by poetry, established by the rules of propriety, and perfected by music.
- Confucius
Poetry had breathed over and sanctified the land.
- Washington Irving
People who bowl vote. Bowlers are not the cultural elite.
- Dan Quayle
When we refer to 'the biblical approach to economics' or the biblical response to politics' or 'biblical womanhood,' we're using the Bible as a weapon disguised as an adjective.
- Rachel Held Evans