3,162 Quotes About Culture

But cheating has always been the purview of fairies, and as we are about to enter their domain, we ought to act in accordance with local customs.

It's a civic virtue to be exposed to things that appear to be outside your interest. In a complex world, almost everything affects you – that closes the loop on pecuniary self-interest. Customers are always right, but people aren't.

My eyes still swelled with tears, but my heart was dancing the lazgi.

If there is still one hellish, truly accursed thing in our time, it is our artistic dallying with forms, instead of being like victims burnt at the stake, signaling through the flames.

Culture, religion, and education, are conspiracies to standardize worldviews.

One problem with today's culture is that we defend too many rights and ignore too many wrongs.

The real debate about both the horrific inequality in the world and about the terrorism and frightening instability in the world requires analysis of the differences in upset-adaption or alienation-from-soul between individuals, races, genders, generations, countries, civilisations and cultures, but until the human condition could be explained and the upset state of the human condition compassionately understood and thus defended that debate could not take place.

After 1968 the restored communist regime required all Czech rock musicians to sit a written exam in Marxism Leninism

The philosopher cannot seriously put to himself questions that his civilization has not lived.