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Culture: the cry of men in face of their destiny.

» Albert Camus (1913-1960) French novelist, essayist and dramatist [Nobel Prize in Literature in 1957]

Men are not suffering from the lack of good literature, good art, good theatre, good music, but from that which has made it impossible for these to become manifest. In short, they are suffering from the silent shameful conspiracy (the more shameful since

» Henry Miller (1891-1980) American author

Here in the U.S., culture is not that delicious panacea which we Europeans consume in a sacramental mental space and which has its own special columns in the newspapers - and in people's minds. Culture is space, speed, cinema, technology. This culture is

» Jean Baudrillard (1929-2007) French sociologist, and philosopher

One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and, if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words.

» Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749-1832) German poet, novelist and dramatist

For the rest, whatever we have got has been by infinite labor, and search, and ranging through every corner of nature; the difference is that instead of dirt and poison, we have rather chosen to fill our hives with honey and wax, thus furnishing mankind w

» Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) Anglo-Irish satirist

Culture is the tacit agreement to let the means of subsistence disappear behind the purpose of existence. Civilization is the subordination of the latter to the former.

» Karl Kraus (1874-1936) Austrian satirist

No culture can live if it attempts to be exclusive.

» Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948) Preeminent leader of Indian nationalism[Assassination by shooting]

Culture of the mind must be subservient to the heart.

» Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948) Preeminent leader of Indian nationalism[Assassination by shooting]

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 (1822-1888) British poet and cultural critic

If everybody is looking for it, then nobody is finding it. If we were cultured, we would not be conscious of lacking culture. We would regard it as something natural and would not make so much fuss about it. And if we knew the real value of this word we w

» Pablo Neruda (1904-1973) Chilean poet

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

» Samuel Beckett (1906-1989) Irish writer, dramatist and poet, ['¨Waiting for Godot' Nobel Prize in Literature in 1969]

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

» Simone de Beauvoir (1908-1986) French novelist and essayist

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 (1913-1960) French novelist, essayist and dramatist [Nobel Prize in Literature in 1957]

That is true culture which helps us to work for the social betterment of all.

» Henry Ward Beecher (1813-1887) American politician, social reformer

Every man's ability may be strengthened or increased by culture.

» John Abbott (1821-1893) Canadian lawyer and statesman

The ideas of the ruling class are in every epoch the ruling ideas, i.e., the class which is the ruling material force of society, is at the same time its ruling intellectual force.

» Karl Marx (1818-1883) German philosopher, economist, sociologist, journalist, and revolutionary socialist

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 (1822-1888) British poet and cultural critic

Culture is one thing and varnish is another.

» Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926) Austro-German poet

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