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Cultural Quotes

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

"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

Cultural, Culture, Hatred, Will

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

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

Erich Fromm, American Psychologist

Cultural, Culture, Man, Weakness

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"In the light of our culture, these are not unreasonable questions and tactics, but if once again, we try to see the lens through which we look, we can see that there is far too great an emphasis placed on the future."

"In the light of our culture, these are not unreasonable questions and tactics, but if once again, we try to see the lens through which we look, we can see that there is far too great an emphasis placed on the future."

Alan Dundes, American Educator

Cultural, Culture, Future, Light, Questions

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"The relentless pressures of the so-called marketplace have distorted all our culture industries."

"The relentless pressures of the so-called marketplace have distorted all our culture industries."

Mark Crispin Miller, American Journalist

Cultural, Culture

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"The Danish glee: the national version of cheerfulness."

"The Danish glee: the national version of cheerfulness."

Georg Brandes, Danish Critic

Cultural, Cheerfulness

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"Culture must have its ultimate aim in the metaphysical or it will cease to be culture."

"Culture must have its ultimate aim in the metaphysical or it will cease to be culture."

Johan Huizinga, Dutch Historian

Cultural, Culture, Will

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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."

"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

Cultural, Culture, Leisure, World

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"There are works of literature whose influence is strong but indirect because it is mediated through the whole of the culture rather than immediately through imitation. Wordsworth is the case that comes to mind."

"There are works of literature whose influence is strong but indirect because it is mediated through the whole of the culture rather than immediately through imitation. Wordsworth is the case that comes to mind."

J. M. Coetzee, South African Author

Cultural, Culture, Imitation, Influence, Literature

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"Every aspect of Western culture needs a new code of ethics - a rational ethics - as a precondition of rebirth."

"Every aspect of Western culture needs a new code of ethics - a rational ethics - as a precondition of rebirth."

Ayn Rand, Russian Writer

Cultural, Culture, Ethics, Needs, Rebirth

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"The cornerstone of the political correctness that dominates campus culture is radical feminism."

"The cornerstone of the political correctness that dominates campus culture is radical feminism."

Phyllis Schlafly, American Activist

Cultural, Culture, Feminism, Radical

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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."

"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

Cultural, Culture, Mythology

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

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

Henry David Thoreau, American Author

Cultural, Architecture

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"Americans have a penchant for the future and tend to disregard the past."

"Americans have a penchant for the future and tend to disregard the past."

Alan Dundes, American Educator

Cultural, Americans, Future, Past

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

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

Elizabeth George, American Author

Cultural, Culture

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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."

"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

Cultural, Culture, Future

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

"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

Cultural, Culture, First, Man, Suspicion

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

"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

Cultural, Culture, Sheep

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