• 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

  WriterIrish1667 · 17th century

  4.7 · 23 votes · 148 reads

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• 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

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  Jean Baudrillard

  PhilosopherFrench1929 · 20th century

  3.8 · 58 votes · 194 reads

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• 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

  PoetChilean1904 · 20th century

  3.8 · 7 votes · 70 reads

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• In the room the women come and go talking of Michelangelo.

  

  Susan Sontag

  AuthorAmerican1933 · 20th century

  3.4 · 43 votes · 39 reads

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• 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

  AuthorAmerican1891 · 19th century

  3.5 · 46 votes · 60 reads

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• Mr. Bean is essentially a child trapped in the body of a man. All cultures identify with children in a similar way, so he has this bizarre global outreach.

  

  Rowan Atkinson

  ComedianEnglish1956 · 20th century

  5.0 · 9 votes · 145 reads

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• No culture can live if it attempts to be exclusive.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi

  LeaderIndian1869 · 19th century

  4.6 · 23 votes · 130 reads

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• 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

  PoetGerman1749 · 18th century

  3.4 · 50 votes · 4 reads

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

  

  Henry Ward Beecher

  PoliticianAmerican1813 · 19th century

  4.9 · 16 votes · 78 reads

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• 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

  EconomistGerman1818 · 19th century

  3.6 · 7 votes · 173 reads

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• The overall strength of Chinese culture and its international influence is not commensurate with China's international status. The international culture of the West is strong while we are weak.

  

  Hu Jintao

  PoliticianChinese1942 · 20th century

  4.8 · 20 votes · 91 reads

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• 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

  NovelistFrench1913 · 20th century

  4.5 · 64 votes · 165 reads

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