Quotes on Civilization and culture

Civilization and culture Quotes

Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill.

Barbara W. Tuchman

Teachers must be celebrated for moving civilization from ignorance to enlightenment, from apathy to responsibility.

Sharon M. Draper

Culture is a framework in which we communicate.

Stephen Roberts

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

Mahatma Gandhi

Culture is the sum of all the forms of art, of love, and of thought, which, in the coarse or centuries, have enabled man to be less enslaved

Andre Malraux

Culture is properly described as the love of perfection; it is a study of perfection.

Matthew Arnold

Vanity as an impulse has without doubt been of far more benefit to civilization than modesty has ever been.

William E. Woodward

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

Ahmad Alaadeen

Without adventure civilization is in full decay

Alfred North Whitehead

Anglo-Saxon civilization has taught the individual to protect his own rights; American civilization will teach him to respect the rights of others.

William Jennings Bryan

There is something even more valuable to civilization than wisdom, and that is character

Henry Louis Mencken

The tendency in modern civilization is to make the world uniform... Let the mind be universal. The individual should not be sacrifice

Rabindranath Tagore

What man calls civilization always results in deserts.

DON MARQUIS

When one looks back over human existence, however, it is very evident that all culture has developed through an initial resistance against adaptation to the reality in which man finds himself

Beatrice Hinkle

A culture without property, or in which creators can't get paid, is anarchy, not freedom.

Lawrence Lessig

If civilization has risen from the Stone Age, it can rise again from the Wastepaper Age.

Jacques Barzun

Don't tire yourself more than need be, even at the price of founding a culture on the fatigue of your bones.

Antonin Artaud

Never tire yourself more than necessary, even if you have to found a culture on the fatigue of your bones.

Antonin Artaud

Building trust is no longer a matter of creating structures and practices within a single culture.

Robert C. Solomon

Education is the transmission of civilization.

Ariel and Will Durant

Unless there is a vast alteration in manís civilization as it stumbles along today,man will not be here very long.

L. Ron Hubbard

Culture is the habit of being pleased with the best and knowing why

Henry Van Dyke

Preservation of one's own culture does not require contempt or disrespect for other cultures.

Cesar Chavez

Partial culture runs to the ornate; extreme culture to simplicity.

Christian Nestell Bovee

Great culture is often betokened by great simplicity.

Dorothee DeLuzy

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