Culture Quotes

"America is the first culture in jeopardy of amusing itself to death."

— John Piper

"And if you can find any way out of our culture, then that's a trap too. Just wanting to get out of the trap reinforces the trap."

— Chuck Palahniuk

"Every civilization is a fruit from the sturdy tree of barbarism, and falls at the greatest distance from its trunk."

— Will Durant

"All aesthetic judgment is really cultural evaluation."

— Susan Sontag

"But maybe they were barbarians. Maybe this is what most barbarians look like. They look like everybody else."

— Susan Sontag

"What should they know of England who only England know?"

— Rudyard Kipling

"In America everything goes and nothing matters, while in Europe nothing goes and everything matters."

— Philip Roth

"Company cultures are like country cultures. Never try to change one. Try, instead, to work with what you've got."

— Peter F. Drucker

"Modernity: we created youth without heroism, age without wisdom, and life without grandeur"

— Nassim Taleb

"Someone has said that culture is what remains with you after you have forgotten all you have read, and I believe there is much truth in that."

— Louis L'Amour

"Groups create supernatural beings not to explain the universe but to order their societies."

— Jonathan Haidt

"Culture is the widening of the mind and of the spirit"

— Nehru

"National hatred is something peculiar. You will always find it strongest and most violent where there is the lowest degree of culture."

— Goethe

"There is nothing the matter with Americans except their ideals. The real American is all right it is the ideal American who is all wrong."

— Gilbert Chesterton

"Music can change the world because it can change people."

— Bono