Quotes about Culture

A man's ethnic identity has more to do with a personal awareness than with geography.

A poverty-stricken nation with a great art is a greater nation than a wealthy nation with a poverty-stricken art.

What a time! What a civilization!

Fashion does not exist unless it goes down into the streets.

Next to religion, baseball has furnished a greater impact on American life than any other institution

The resurrection is the fundamental restoration of all culture.

The highest ideal for the Christian is not to make peace with the world, with science, with culture at any price, but to keep himself from the evil one.

All culture, whatever significance it may have, just as all education, civilization, development, is absolutely powerless to renew the inner man.

Thus the true, the good and the beautiful which ethical culture seeks can only come to perfection when the absolute good is at the same time the almighty, divine will, which not only prescribes the good in the moral law, but also works it effectually in man himself. The heteronomy of law and the autonomy of man are reconciled only by this theonomy.

Either humanity, with all its culture, is a means for the unconscious, unreasonable, and purposeless world-power, or it is a means for the glorifying of God.

Ethical culture must be a philosophy of revelation or it cannot exist.

The subduing of the earth, that is, the whole of culture, is given to him, and can be given to him only because he is created after God's image; man can be ruler of the earth only because and in so far as he is a servant, a son of God.