3,162 Quotes About Culture

[T]here are in fact no masses, but only ways of seeing people as masses.

Tír gan teanga, tír gan anam. A country without a language is a country without a soul.

Culture is more important than vision. Some leaders have great vision, but have created a toxic culture where that vision will never happen.

One of the most effective ways to learn about oneself is by taking seriously the cultures of others. It forces you to pay attention to those details of life which differentiate them from you.

Whatever may be their use in civilized societies, mirrors are essential to all violent and heroic action.

no human culture is inaccessible to someone who makes the effort to understand, to learn, to inhabit another world.

To give an accurate description of what has never occurred is not merely the proper occupation of the historian, but the inalienable privilege of any man of parts and culture.

Culture consists of connections, not of separations: to specialize is to isolate.

Don’t seem to matter much where you are, but folks are always saying you shoulda been here long, long ago, the scene has all dried up. Georgie Harrison said it about Haight–Ashbury, and Sid and Nancy said it about the Chelsea Hotel. The only place they could never really say that about was MacDougal Street in Greenwich Village. There was a crackle in the air that just let you know you were alive. As Bobby sang it, later there was music in the cafes and revolution wafting in the wind.