3,162 Quotes About Culture

A psychopathy on Anarres was rational behavior on Urras.

We were entering a new age, one where there were no absolutes like right or wrong. The worst part was that it felt like everyone else had already been living there for a long time. I was finally just catching on.

Books are, let's face it, better than everything else. If we played Cultural Fantasy Boxing League, and made books go fifteen rounds in the ring against the best that any other art form had to offer, then books would win pretty much every time.

إذا أردت أن تدمر ثقافة .. لا تحرق الكتب، فقط اجعل الناس لا يقرأوها

Reading is not simply an intellectual pursuit but an emotional and spiritual one. It lights the candle in the hurricane lamp of self; that's why it survives."[Turning the Page: The future of reading is backlit and bright, Newsweek Magazine, March 25, 2010]

...because there's a secret order. The books, you can't place them random. The other day I put Cervantes next to Tolstoj.And I thought, if close to Anna Karenina we have Don Quixote, sure the latter will do his best to save her.

culture is pigeon-holing –it disposes of the worldyet takes away its freedom

Literature cannot be imposed; it must be discovered.

The number 2 is a very dangerous number: that is why the dialectic is a dangerous process