"Culture is an instrument wielded by teachers to manufacture teachers, who, in their turn, will manufacture still more teachers."

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"Hatred is something peculiar. You will always find it strongest and most violent where there is the lowest degree of culture."

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, German Poet

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"They can do without architecture who have no olives nor wines in the cellar."

Henry David Thoreau, American Author

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"Man's biological weakness is the condition of human culture."

Erich Fromm, American Psychologist

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"Most of the monsters... are based on some sort of mythology. Every culture and even some geographical areas have monsters and mythology that is their own."

Laurell K. Hamilton, American Writer

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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, British Poet

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"I don't think anyone could write about another culture and get it 100 percent accurate."

Elizabeth George, American Author

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"It is not part of a true culture to tame tigers, any more than it is to make sheep ferocious."

Henry David Thoreau, American Author

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"When future archaeologists dig up the remains of California, they're going to find all of those gyms their scary-looking gym equipment, and they're going to assume that we were a culture obsessed with torture."

Doug Coupland, Canadian Author

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"Like every other good thing in this world, leisure and culture have to be paid for. Fortunately, however, it is not the leisured and the cultured who have to pay."

Aldous Huxley, English Novelist

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"Our culture runs on coffee and gasoline, the first often tasting like the second."

Edward Abbey, American Author

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"Human beings are so made that the ones who do the crushing feel nothing; it is the person crushed who feels what is happening. Unless one has placed oneself on the side of the oppressed, to feel with them, one cannot understand."

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"Hatred is something peculiar. You will always find it strongest and most violent where there is the lowest degree of culture."

"They can do without architecture who have no olives nor wines in the cellar."

"Man's biological weakness is the condition of human culture."

"Most of the monsters... are based on some sort of mythology. Every culture and even some geographical areas have monsters and mythology that is their own."

"A man should be just cultured enough to be able to look with suspicion upon culture at first, not second hand."

"I don't think anyone could write about another culture and get it 100 percent accurate."

"It is not part of a true culture to tame tigers, any more than it is to make sheep ferocious."

"When future archaeologists dig up the remains of California, they're going to find all of those gyms their scary-looking gym equipment, and they're going to assume that we were a culture obsessed with torture."

"Like every other good thing in this world, leisure and culture have to be paid for. Fortunately, however, it is not the leisured and the cultured who have to pay."

"Our culture runs on coffee and gasoline, the first often tasting like the second."

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"It is not the cause for which men took up arms that makes a victory more just or less, it is the order that is established when arms have been laid down."

"Evil, when we are in its power, is not felt as evil, but as a necessity, even a duty."

"Human beings are so made that the ones who do the crushing feel nothing; it is the person crushed who feels what is happening. Unless one has placed oneself on the side of the oppressed, to feel with them, one cannot understand."

"A self-respecting nation is ready for anything, including war, except for a renunciation of its option to make war."

"Those who are unhappy have no need for anything in this world but people capable of giving them their attention."

"The highest ecstasy is the attention at its fullest."

"Every perfect life is a parable invented by God."

"Petroleum is a more likely cause of international conflict than wheat."

"The most important part of teaching is to teach what it is to know."

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