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~ The foundation of culture, as of character, is at last the moral sentiment. ~

~ Culture, far from giving us freedom, only develops, as it advances, new necessities; the fetters of the physical close more tightly around us, so that the fear of loss quenches even the ardent impulse toward improvement, and the maxims of passive obedience are held to be the highest wisdom of life. ~

Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller

~ The end of culture is right living. ~

W. Somerset Maugham

~ No culture can live, if it attempts to be exclusive. ~

Mahatma Gandhi

~ Every view of the world that becomes extinct, every culture that disappears, diminishes a possibility of life. ~

Octavio Paz

~ Culture is both an intellectual phenomenon and a moral one. ~

Matthew Arnold

~ It is the individual only who is timeless. Societies, cultures, and civilizations --past and present --are often incomprehensible to outsiders, but the individual's hungers, anxieties, dreams, and preoccupations have remained unchanged through the millennia. ~

Eric Hoffer

~ Food is a central activity of mankind and one of the single most significant trademarks of a culture. ~

Mark Kurlansky

~ In terms of fast food and deep understanding of the culture of fast food, I'm your man. ~

Bill Gates

~ Nothing seems to me to be rarer today then genuine hypocrisy. I greatly suspect that this plant finds the mild atmosphere of our culture unendurable. Hypocrisy has its place in the ages of strong belief: in which even when one is compelled to exhibit a different belief one does not abandon the belief one already has. ~

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

~ Rap is a gimmick, but I'm for the hip-hop, the culture. ~

Method Man

~ American culture is torn between our long romance with violence and our terror of the devastation wrought by war and crime and environmental havoc ~

Katherine Dunn

~ There has never been a time in history when simply being pregnant and giving birth has seemed so complicated. This is because there has never been a time in history when being a woman has seemed so complicated. Whatever gains we imagine we have made in work, in relationships and in the wider culture, the struggle to find a positive definition of what it is to be a woman, particularly in regard to our reproductive lives, is as intense as ever. Nowhere is that struggle felt as keenly as in the arena of pregnancy and birth ~

Pat Thomas

~ Jazz does not belong to one race or culture, but is a gift that America has given the world. ~

Ahmad Alaadeen

~ Historians will have to face the fact that natural selection determined the evolution of cultures in the same manner as it did that of species ~

Konrad Lorenz

~ An army without culture is a dull-witted army, and a dull-witted army cannot defeat the enemy. ~

Mao Zedong

~ In a world darkened by ethnic conflicts that tear nations apart, Canada stands as a model of how people of different cultures can live and work together in peace, prosperity, and mutual respect. ~

Bill Clinton

~ Xenophobia manifests itself especially against civilizations and cultures that are weak because they lack economic resources, means of subsistence or land. So nomadic people are the first targets of this kind of aggression. ~

Antonio Tabucchi

~ Advances in medicine and agriculture have saved vastly more lives than have been lost in all the wars in history. ~

Dr. Carl Sagan

~ The war against Vietnam is only the ghastliest manifestation of what I'd call imperial provincialism, which afflicts America's whole culture - aware only of its own history, insensible to everything which isn't part of the local atmosphere. ~

Richard M. Nixon

~ I think music in itself is healing. It's an explosive expression of humanity. It's something we are all touched by. No matter what culture we're from, everyone loves music. ~

Billy Joel

~ College football is a sport that bears the same relation to education that bullfighting does to agriculture. ~

Elbert Hubbard

~ An army without culture is a dull-witted army, and a dull-witted army cannot defeat the enemy. ~

Mao Zedong

~ Everyone in our culture wants to win a prize. Perhaps that is the grand lesson we have taken with us from kindergarten in the age of perversions of Dewey-style education: everyone gets a ribbon, and praise becomes a meaningless narcotic to soothe egoistic distemper. ~

Gerald Early

~ We live in a culture that discourages empathy. A culture that too often tells us our principle goal in life is to be rich, thin, young, famous, safe, and entertained. ~

Barack Obama

~ Man's biological weakness is the condition of human culture. ~

Erich Fromm

~ We are living at an important and fruitful moment now, for it is clear to men that the images of adult manhood given by the popular culture are worn out; a man can no longer depend on them. By the time a man is thirty-five he knows that the images of the right man, the tough man, the true man which he received in high school do not work in life. ~

Robert Bly

~ Children of a culture born in a water-rich environment, we have never really learned how important water is to us. We understand it, but we do not respect it ~

WILLIAM ASHWORTH

~ An army without culture is a dull-witted army, and a dull-witted army cannot defeat the enemy. ~

Mao Zedong

~ There's been progress toward seeing that nature and culture are not opposing terms, and that wilderness is not the only kind of landscape for environmentalists to concern themselves with. ~

Michael Pollan

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